Record of Clients & Projects
2012 - 2014:
Evaluation of Cu and IOCG Cu-Au project areas of Cloncurry district of Mount Isa Inlier (Yunnan Copper Co);
QA evaluation of Easter Gold Project drill program, Papua (Easter Partners Ltd);
Resource drill-out design & QA assessment, Yanco Glen tungsten project (Broken Hill region, Carpentaria Exploration);
Review of uranium prospectivity of NSW (Carpentaria Exp);
Desktop evaluation of Jbel Rich Fe (hematite) Project, Morocco (Wagners Group);
Appraisal of Au and base metal exploration targets Qld & Tasmania (Wagners Group).
Sediment-hosted Cu-Pb-Zn search, Kamarga Dome (Wagners);
Technical Management of Hawsons magnetite Fe project (Pure Metals);
IRG/lode Au prospects & regional evaluation, New England & Central Lachlan Fold Belts (Carpentaria).
Epithermal Au projects, eastern Turkey, evaluation of geochemical data (Tigris Resources);
IRG/lode Au projects, Lachlan Fold Belt (Carpentaria).
2009 - 2011:
Commodity review - iron ore potential of Eastern Australia (Carpentaria Exploration);
Testing and evaluation of recently developed regolith & soil gas/volatile extraction methods for mineral exploration (Xstrata Copper Exploration);
Geochemical Exploration Short Course (to Mt Isa-based geologists of Xstrata Copper Exploration);
Evaluation of central Queensland tenements for skarn Cu-Zn systems (Argonaut Resources);
Lorena Gold Project, Cloncurry – mapping, drilling and resource estimation;
Hawsons Iron Project, Broken Hill NSW – staff training for large drilling program, deposit geology and ore stratigraphy, project data QA assessments (Carpentaria Exploration);
Gosowong Gold Project, Halmahera, Indonesia – compilation and evaluation of district surface geochemical data and ranking of untested anomalies (Newcrest Mining).
Vanadium and U search in eastern Kimberley (Bowen Energy);
Ni, Sn and W projects, reconnaissance & data assessments, Broken Hill region (Carpentaria Exploration);
Vein Au Koonenberry Belt, field tactics and guidelines (East Asia Minerals).
2004 - 2008:
Evaluations of large soil chemistry datasets acquired by field portable XRF instruments (for Teck Cominco and Vale-Inco, both in Broken Hill region)
Prospect drilling and regional evaluations in the Mount Isa and Georgetown regions of Queensland (Copper Strike Ltd, VEL Pty Ltd), Broken Hill region (Anglo American), and Lachlan Fold Belt of NSW (Carpentaria Exploration)
Audit of sample prep and analytical labs, and QA data analysis for Goro Nickel Project, New Caledonia (on behalf of Inco)
Annual evaluations, field trips and provision of training for geochemical exploration programs in Chile (for exploration division of Codelco).
Assistance with and provision of training for U search in glacial terrain of Labrador (for Fronteer Group).
Training and orientation surveys for Inco geologists in Ontario and Manitoba (sulphide Ni).
Evaluations of gossan compositions and the application of Pb isotope technology to exploration in the Mount Isa Inlier (for Xstrata Copper).
Assistance with the geochemical programmes of QGX Ltd in Mongolia (field training, surveys, reporting -VMS base metals and epithermal Au).
Evaluations of state-scale regional geochemical data for Inco Resources (Australia).
Office-based assessments of geochemical datasets and QA procedures for Newcrest Mining (Gosowong district exploration); Renison Consolidated Mining (Mt Agate Au Project, N Qld); Kentor Gold (Kyrgyz Republic), Mirasol (Argentina) and Discovery Nickel (Western Australia).
1999 - 2003 Company Principal Geochemist (MIM):
Oversee exploration group geochemical practices – offices and projects in Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Dominican Republic, Colorado, Namibia and Philippines; also periodic advice and assistance to mining operations (Mount Isa Mine, Ernest Henry, MacArthur River, Bajo de la Alumbrera).
Provision of training courses – QA, data processing, interpretation, new techniques, results of company-sponsored R&D.
Compilation and assessment of surface geochemical signatures of Cordilleran porphyry Cu (Au, Mo) and epithermal Au deposits for application to reconnaissance and green fields programs in South and Central America.
Acquisition and processing of regional-scale drainage geochemistry datasets to advance target generation activities in South America and Australia.
Design and implementation of regional reconnaissance surveys, project-scale orientation surveys and individual drilling programmes in the Americas.
Planning and direction of a major study of secondary chemical dispersions into the sediments that cover the Ernest Henry Iron Oxide Cu-Au deposit. Participation in project reviews (all countries).