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Years: 1971 until April 1972
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Employed by: Broken Hill South Ltd as a Field Geologist |
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Work Summary:
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Regional mapping Mt Isa/Lawn Hill
Region |
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Phosphate
reserve drilling |
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Sulphur and base metal exploration in New Zealand. |
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Years: April 1972
until July 1976
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Located: University of Auckland, New Zealand |
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Work Summary:
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Research into petrochemistry and source of
ignimbritic volcanics in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and Coromandel, New
Zealand. (PhD research project). |
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Years:
August 1976 until December 1978
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Employed
by: Union Corporation (Australia) Pty Ltd as a field and project geologist. |
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Work Summary:
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Regional exploration for base metals
NSW and Queensland |
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Project geologist Panton Sill
platinum prospect, Kimberleys, Western Australia |
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Base
metal search Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. |
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Years:
January 1979 until July 1987
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Employed
by: Electrolytic Zinc Company Of A'Asia Ltd (now Norths) as:
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Senior Geologist-Project Development,
Supervising Geologist-Eastern States, |
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Supervising Geologist-Northern Region
(included Qld, N.T. & Overseas).
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Work Summary:
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Project development and exploration,
administration,
budgeting and reporting for new group commodities, namely tin, tungsten, gold,
platinum, rare elements throughout
Australia. Ongoing base metal exploration. |
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Monitor competitor exploration in New South Wales,
Queensland,
Northern Territory and South Pacific. |
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Participate
in joint venture projects such
as Thalanga (base metals), Coronation Hill (Au-Pt), Ranger (U),
Mount Windsor Volcanics (Au - base metals), etc. in eastern
Australia and Northern Territory. |
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Participate
in evaluation of major joint venture offers to NBH-EZ Group
including gold properties such as Kidston, Mungana, Starra, Mt.
Leyshon (Qld), Goodall, White Range (N.T.) and Bamboo Creek (W.A.); tin
prospects such as Collingwood (Qld) and Taronga (NSW); Turee Creek U
Prospect in
Western Australia, an assessment of the geological potential of the Westmoreland
uranium field, and numerous
minor offers for base metals, tin, tungsten, gold, silver, rare
earths, uranium etc. throughout Australia. |
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Undertake research and field evaluation for major
offshore initiatives for gold in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
Indonesia and other Pacific island groups. |
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Undertake research into
new commodity options for the NBHH-EZ Group, for example, platinum
group elements, gallium, indium, germanium, etc. |
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Organise and co-ordinate special in-house evaluation and
assessment projects, for example, evaluate potential for additional
ore reserves at Rosebery base metal mine, Tasmania.
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Years:
August 1987 until January 1988
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Employed
by: Crown Capital Resources Limited
as General Manager. |
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Work Summary:
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Assisted in preparation of prospectus to float
company to public and establishment of an operating company. Company did not proceed
to float because of stock market collapse. |
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Initiate and maintain exploration activities in joint venture with
Talisman Mining & Exploration Pty Ltd. |
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Years:
January 1988
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Established:
Rutherford Mineral Resource Consultants
as an independent general and specialist consulting and contracting
service to the mineral exploration industry. |
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October 1989 until January 1992
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Associate Consultant:
Senior Geologist/Geochemist to Surtec Geosurveys Pty Ltd |
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Work
Summary:
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Exploration contracting and
consulting. |
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Project
management for gold, base metals, uranium, base metals. |
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Surtec
field project manager for Queensland Mines Ltd. and PNC Arnhem Land
uranium exploration programs. |
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Property
valuation and evaluation. |
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Air
photograph and Landsat image mapping and interpretation. |
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Exploration project planning and
assessment, geophysical surveying. |
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Geochemical orientation studies
and technique development for application in tropical environments. Pb isotope field application studies jointly with
CSIRO, (Nabarlek, Jabiluka, Ranger). |
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Computer programming, geochemical and geophysical data
processing and interpretation. Electronic note book programming. |
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Years:
January 1992 to Present
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Principal
Consultant: Rutherford Mineral Resource Consultants |
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Established:
EnChem
- Environmental Geochemistry Consultants |
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Work
Summary:
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General and specialist geological and
geochemical consulting and contracting services. |
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Exploration program
design and management for precious metals, base metals, uranium and other
commodities in NSW, Queensland, Western Australia. |
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Extensive
experience with geochemical application and data interpretation in
all states and in a wide range of geological environments. |
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General
consulting advice on computer software, data processing and
interpretation. |
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Geological evaluations of
properties. |
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Assisting with
geophysical field surveys. |
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Project design and management of major
regional and detailed geochemical surveys, for example, stream
sediment survey of upper north east NSW for NSW Dept of Mineral
Resources covering 35,000 sq. km. |
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Joint development of new
geochemical analytical techniques, for example, Regoleach
partial leach method with
Australian Laboratory Services, Brisbane. |
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Through
EnChem
offering environmental chemistry services for urban and rural
studies, site geochemistry, project advice, data acquisition,
processing and interpretation services for environmental studies. |
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