Malcolm Robb’s introduction to the geology of Northern Canada was as a student in the summer of 1979 working with Falconbridge in northern Manitoba in the Snow Lake and Leaf Rapids areas. After graduating from the Royal School of Mines in 1980, he returned to Northern Manitoba to work for three years and became fully immersed in the North. From Snow Lake he moved farther north to take up the role of mine geologist at the Salmita gold mine, 250 km north of Yellowknife for five years.  

Following a brief period in the jungle of Guyana in South America, Robb returned to Canada working in Northern Ontario for four years in the Timmins and Kirkland Lake areas before returning to the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 1994. Making his home there, he has spent the last 25 years working for both industry and government in various roles related to mining and exploration in the NWT.