Research

Oliver Heathman​

Head of Metals Assets, Metals & Mining Research​

Expertise

  • United Kingdom
  • Metals costs

Get in touch with Oliver

Oliver has over 15 years of experience in the metals & mining sector across research, consulting and leadership. Over his career, he has covered a broad suite of metals including battery raw materials, precious metals and steel alloys. Oliver’s role at Woodmac sees him lead the teams covering our base metal, precious metal and battery raw material asset level research across mine costs and emissions benchmarking. ​

He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2021 following the takeover of Roskill, where he established the company’s sustainability & cost analysis division. In his time at Roskill, he developed several first of their kind products including cost services across lithium, nickel sulphate and vanadium, and Sustainability Monitors covering lithium, cobalt and nickel sulphate.​

Before joining Roskill, Oliver was a founding member and the Head of mining research at metals focus, developing the company’s mine cost and supply-side market forecasting research of gold, silver and PGMs. ​

Education

BSc, Geology, University of Bristol 

MSc, Mining Geology, Camborne School of Mines.​