Dr. Oy Leuangthong, PEng
Corporate Geostatistician
Dr. Oy Leuangthong, is a Corporate Consultant (Geostatistics) with SRK Consulting (Canada) Limited based in Toronto, Canada. She has 20 years experience with geostatistics and 3D modelling of mineral and petroleum resources. Her areas of expertise are in resource estimation, simulation, and classification using geostatistics, with particular interest in multiple variables and trend modelling. Oy has been involved with estimation and simulation studies in multiple commodities including gold, copper, zinc, nickel, phosphate, and uranium in North America, South America, Africa, and Australia. She has authored and co-authored two books, 20 journal papers, and more than 30 conference articles on geostatistics for resource characterization.
Prior to joining SRK, she was an Assistant Professor in Mining Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. She has taught geostatistics in various industry courses to engineers and geologists from national and multinational companies in North and South America, and Africa. Since 2017, she has taught an undergraduate resource estimation course at the University of Toronto. Oy has given numerous presentations at national and international conferences. In 2018, she was voted as one of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.
