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Expertise General: Organization, Supervision, Execution, Troubleshooting of Exploration Programs; Training. Specific Exploration: Drilling, Mapping, GPS, GPR, Computer programs, Reporting. Laboratory work. Hard rock (gold, base metals), Alluvial deposits (gold, diamonds), Remote Sensing.
Education: M.Sc. Geology (Dutch title is Drs.) - University of Leiden, the Netherlands (part-time) Diploma 1979
B.Sc. Geology with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry - University of Leiden Diploma 1973
Geological, Geophysical, Geotechnical short courses (nine) - Canada and U.S.A. 1982-1998
Affiliations: Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (P.Geol.)
Geological Association of Canada (Fellow)
Irish Association for Economic Geology
Royal Dutch Geological and Mining Society
Languages: Fluent English and Dutch, excellent German, fair French, some Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
Personal: Excellent health. Good team worker. Motivated, takes initiative, active and creative. Dutch nationality.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2001-Present PanTerra Geoconsultants B.V. (Warmond, the Netherlands) http://www.panterra.nl/
Supervision and administration of projects for analysis of oil and gas drill core, training, data processing, evaluation and reporting. Organized the set-up of core preparation facilities in Kazakhstan and supervised the start-up there.
1996-2001 Zarcan Minerals Inc. & Pegasus Earth Sensing Corp. (Vancouver) http://www.zarcan.com/
Project Manager and Senior Geologist – Supervised a team of Iranian geologists for a base metals, gold and platinum exploration project covering 30,000 km2 area in the mountainous desert along the Pakistan and Afghan borders. Actively participated in the fieldwork. Selected 15 areas for detailed exploration with mapping, trenching, drilling and sampling. Consultant on the execution and evaluation of a gold drilling project in NW Iran. (1998-2001).
- Executed a helicopter assisted gold and base metals exploration project in Northern B.C., Canada (1997-98).
- Supervised a alluvial diamond exploration project in Central Brazil (1996-97). Set-up, trained for and evaluated a GPR survey and executed another one at alluvial diamond deposits elsewhere in Central Brazil (1997 and 1999).
1994-1996 Minerex Services Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) http://www.moydow.com/ - Project Manager and Geologist
Responsible for a successful gold exploration, geochemical and extensive RC and core drilling project in Ghana.
1993-1994 Pegasus-Cambria Brazil (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) - Project Manager and Senior Geologist
Responsible for a gold drilling project and for alluvial and hard rock gold exploration projects in Brazil (Amazon Basin and Central Brazil). Evaluated various concessions elsewhere in Brazil.
1992 State Geological Survey (Haarlem, Netherlands) – Geologist
Investigated geophysical methods for the study of salt domes as potential radioactive waste disposal sites.
1990-1992 Couvrette Geotechnical Engineering, Inc., David L. Nelson and Associates, Inc.
and Creative Engineering Options Inc. (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.) - Geologist
Consultant on geotechnical projects (foundations, road building, dams, etc.). Supervised execution of constructions.
1988-1989 AMAX Exploration Inc. (Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.) - Project Geologist
Responsible for a one year drilling program in Turkey. Execution of a large mapping project in NE California.
1980-1988 Geological Survey of Canada (Vancouver, B.C.) - (1987-1988)
Falconbridge Limited (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) - (1987)
Pegasus Earth Sensing Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) - (1981-1987)
Can-Lake Explorations Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - (1980-1981)
Field and Project Geologist – Participated in, responsible for and supervised exploration and drilling projects in Canada, USA, Mexico and Costa Rica. Execution of Landsat interpretations. Scientific research.
1970-1979 Swedish Geological Survey (SGU), (Uppsala/Luleå) - Field Geologist (1976–Dec.1979) &
University of Leiden, the Netherlands - Student and Teaching Assistant
Executed mapping projects in Belgium, Germany and Spain for the B.Sc. program (1971-72). From 1973 part-time work in Leiden and Sweden: executed mapping projects in Sweden for the M.Sc. program of the Department of Structural Geology (1973-75) and for an SGU regional map publication program, and explored for uranium (1976-79). Teaching assistant at undergraduate courses in structural analysis and aerial photography; managing department library; delegate on study advisory commission (1974-78).
OVERVIEW of EXPERIENCE:
SUPERVISED:
•Local geologists, technicians and laborers on large exploration and drilling projects in Canada, Turkey, Brazil, Ghana and Iran and technicians and laborers on projects in Canada, USA, Costa Rica and Mexico.
•Expatriate geologists on large projects in Turkey (German) and Ghana (Irish) and in Brazil and Iran (Canadian). Technicians in Kazakhstan.
•Execution of geotechnical constructions in Washington, USA.
•Also extensive experience with hiring, training and supervising of personnel.
PLANNED, SET-UP and MANAGED:
•Field offices in Costa Rica, Brazil, Ghana and Iran.
•Sample preparation labs in Brazil and Iran and a gold recovery laboratory in Vancouver, Canada. Core processing facilities in Kazakhstan.
•Projects in Sweden, Canada, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ghana, Turkey and Iran.
SPECIFIC PROJECTS EXECUTED (all included literature studies, evaluation and reporting):
•Mapping projects – sedimentary (Belgium, Germany, Spain), sedimentary and volcanic (California), and d:o with intrusive rocks (Canada, Iran); folded metamorphic rocks (Sweden); granite-greenstone terrains (Brazil).
•Remote sensing projects – Landsat interpretation of areas in Alberta, B.C., Alaska, Peru and Iran.
•Alluvial deposits – for gold in B.C., Yukon, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Iran and for diamonds in Brazil.
•Hard rock exploration – for gold and base metals in Costa Rica, Brazil, Canada and Iran; for uranium in Sweden.
•Drilling projects – for silver, uranium, oil sands and gypsum in Canada, for gold in Costa Rica, Turkey, Brazil and Ghana, and for gold-antimony in Iran.
•Pitting/trenching – test pits for alluvial gold (Canada, USA) and diamonds (Brazil) and for geotechnical surveys (USA); trenching projects for base metals (B.C.), gold (Ghana) and gold-antimony (Iran).
•Geotechnical projects – in Washington, USA and as part of a drilling project in Alberta, Canada.
MAPPING:
•Large structural-metamorphic projects in remote areas of arctic/sub-arctic Sweden.
•For epithermal gold deposits in Tertiary volcanics in California (large project) and Costa Rica.
•Sedimentary rocks in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Iran. Various rocks for projects in Canada.
•For gold and base metals in remote areas of Brazil and Iran.
•For alluvial gold deposits in BC, Yukon, USA, Mexico, and for alluvial diamond deposits in Brazil.
•For geotechnical and wetland studies in Washington, USA.
DRILLING (all projects included the logging and sampling of chips or of core):
•Responsible for determination of drilling locations and hole details, spotting of drill holes, supervision of drilling operations and surveying of drill hole collars (Canada, Costa Rica, Turkey, Brazil, Ghana and Iran).
•Reverse Circulation – for hard rock gold in Turkey (15000 m) and Ghana (16000 m) and for unconsolidated sediments on uranium deposits and on oil sands in Canada.
•Core Drilling - for gold in Ghana (4000 m), Costa Rica (1000 m), Brazil (1200 m), for silver and gypsum in Canada and for gold-antimony in Iran.
•Geotechnical drilling and testing (in Canada and USA). Sonic drilling (oil sands in Canada).
•Bore hole logging for radioactive minerals (Saskatchewan) and measuring drill hole orientation.
•Teaching techniques to geologists and technicians in Turkey, Brazil, Ghana and Iran.
DEPOSITS WORKED WITH:
•Detailed studies of alluvial and eluvial unconsolidated sediments (Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Iran and geotechnical in USA) and of glacial sediments (Sweden and Canada). Peat and wetland vegetation (USA).
•Non-metamorphic folded sedimentary rocks (Belgium, Germany, Spain, Canada, California and Iran)
•Non-metamorphic volcanic (California, Costa Rica, Iran) and intrusive rocks (Canada, Brazil and Iran).
•Folded, ±thrust, low- to high-grade metamorphic rocks in Sweden, Canada, Brazil and Ghana.
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS:
•Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) – course (USA) and planned, supervised, executed and evaluated surveys in Brazil.
•Refraction seismic surveys – planned, executed, and evaluated projects in Canada and Brazil.
•Experience with VLF (Costa Rica, Brazil), SP (Costa Rica), Magnetometer (Brazil), MaxMin (Iran).
•GPS – extensive use and computer manipulation of data on projects in Iran, Brazil and Canada.
GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS:
•Planned, supervised and evaluated successfully a large soil sampling and trenching program for gold in Ghana
•Executed and evaluated a helicopter aided moss-mat sampling program for gold and base metals in British Columbia.
•Planned, supervised and evaluated a 22-month stream sediment sampling program in a 30,000 km2 area for base metals, gold and platinum in Iran.
•Statistical analyses of geochemical data. Preparation of maps and diagrams.
GEOTECHNICAL WORK:
•Determination of properties of sediments and groundwater in bore holes (Alberta, Washington).
•Soil, groundwater, slope and wetland studies with test pits, water flow measurements, drilling, mapping, land surveys, photographic documentation and reporting (N.W. Washington, USA).
•Supervised contractors for land slide remediation, excavations for foundations, roadbeds and bridge supports and for construction of earth dams and rock walls (N.W. Washington, USA).
•Completed courses for wetland identification, compaction testing (nuclear) and geotechnical quality control.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
•Extensive use of DOS, Windows, Word and Excel. Some experience with AutoCAD and CorelDraw.
•Experienced with various geological (e.g. Surfer), GPS and GPR programs.
•Set-up and managed databases and managed computer systems in Vancouver and Iran.
•Extensive experience with computer troubleshooting and with worldwide project data exchange.
•Consultant on a project for geological, geophysical and geochemical data integration by computer.
REMOTE SENSING:
•Extensive use of aerial photography for mapping projects in Sweden and Iran.
•Teaching aerial photography techniques to students (Netherlands) and use for mapping to geologists (Iran).
•Analyzed Landsat data (interactive and classification) for major projects in BC, Alberta and elsewhere.
•Used Landsat TM classifications for alteration/mineralization studies in Iran.
•Utilized Seasat data of Canada and SSR data of Brazil.
MICROSCOPY:
•Extensive use for mineral identification and for structural-metamorphic relations (microtectonics) in low to high grade metamorphic rocks from the Caledonides and the adjacent basement in Sweden.
•Research on Queen Charlotte Island (B.C., Canada) intrusive rocks.
ENVIRONMENTS WORKED IN (usually remote and ‘primitive’):
•Arctic and sub-arctic areas in Canada (including winter drilling) and in remote mountainous areas in Sweden.
•Tropical rainforests in Brazil (Amazonia) and Ghana.
•Mountainous desert of 30,000 km2 area in SE Iran (Baluchestan) along the Pakistan and Afghan borders.
•Semi-desert areas in California, Arizona and Mexico.
•Coastal areas of British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA.
•Other hilly and mountainous areas in Western and Northern Europe, Canada (B.C.), USA (Idaho, Oregon, California), Costa Rica, Central Brazil (Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Goiás), Turkey and NW Iran. Flat country in Manitoba.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
•Aerial photography techniques and structural geological analysis to undergraduate students (Netherlands, 1974-1978).
•Drilling related methods (hole spotting and survey, drill set-up, etc., and logging and sampling) to geologists in Brazil, Turkey, Ghana and Iran (1988-2001).
•Mapping and exploration techniques to a team of Iranian geologists (Febr.1999-March 2001).
ADMINISTRATIVE and OTHER WORK:
•Liaised extensively with government agencies on projects in Iran.
•Maintained excellent contacts with Baluche tribes in Iran en with the local people in backcountry Ghana and Brazil.
•General administration of projects and extensively of projects in Costa Rica and Brazil.
•Established boundaries of concessions in Iran and staked claims in BC and Yukon, Canada.
•Collected large amounts of base line data for projects in Brazil and Iran. Extensive literature studies.
•Surveyed roads, drill hole collars and topographic and geologic features by geodetic methods and with GPS.
•Evaluated project data and ore deposits and calculated resources. Made budgets.
PUBLICATIONS and REPORTING:
•Two M.Sc. theses (structural geology and metamorphism of Caledonides in Central and in Northern Sweden).
•Three joint publications (Sweden and Canada) and major contributions to six regional geological maps (Sweden).
•Author of a large amount of smaller and larger project related English language assessment, progress and final reports.
•Publications and most reports include drawings, sections and maps (hand drafted or prepared with computer).
REFERENCES: On request.
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