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New Zealand Branch / Committee /
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Committee
- Branch Officers/Committee
Members
- Local Organisers
- Profiles of key personnel
Branch Officers and Committee Members
Local Organisers
Profiles of NZ
Branch Key Personnel
Chairman
Cam Wylie
Secretary
David Stewart
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Graduated B Min Tech (Otago),
1st Class MMC, CP (Min), Fellow AusIMM Twenty eight years in the mining
industry as coal miner, mining engineer, mine manager and various executive
positions with CoalCorp (NZ) Ltd. Currently managing director of Minserv
International Ltd. (MSI). MSI carries out services for a wide range of
mining activities such as mining feasibility studies, mining operation
reviews and evaluations, resource studies, mine and project management,
general extractive industry studies and development/delivery of training
programmes for operating mines and mining companies.
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Past Chairman. Branch Treasurer
Graeme Fulton
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Graeme
graduated with a BSc Hons Mining and Petroleum Engineering, from
Strathclyde University in Scotland and was a recipient of an AAC
Scholarship. He has more than twenty years experience in mining and
information systems. Gaining practical mining experience with French-Kier
on their Benbain Opencast coal mine (UK); Anglo American Corporation at
Vaal Reefs Gold Mine, Premier Diamond Mine and Springbok Colliery (South
Africa); and as Senior Mining Engineer for Avgold - Target Project on the
development of a new deep-level gold mine. Extensive experience in mining
information systems, having worked at Andersen Consulting, Intertech
Systems and Datamine on information systems for mining, petroleum and
manufacturing companies as well as mining software development, GIS and
mapping. Additionally, he has extensive experience in mining and
quarrying consultancy projects over a wide range of minerals and deposits
both locally and internationally. Consultancy work has been undertaken in
a number of countries including New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea,
Canada, Southern Africa and Malaysia.
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Committee Members
Murray Stevens
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Murray has been a member of
the AusIMM for 22 years. He is a consulting geologist specialising in
mineral exploration, mineral economics, resource management and the
aggregates industries. Until 1998, he held senior executive positions
with mining companies in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. He is an
advocate for improved career opportunities for geoscientists in New
Zealand.
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Roger Gregg
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Roger is a geologist, holding
a double B Sc in geology and chemistry and an M Sc (Hons) in geology from
the University of Canterbury. Working with Rocklabs Ltd he primarily
advises on sampling and analytical procedures and reference materials.
Over his career he has worked in government, industry and consulting,
primarily in the field and management of New Zealand's minerals and coal
industries though also in Australia and Canada. He organized the
successful series of New Zealand Minerals and Mining Conferences. He has
been active in the AusIMM for over 30 years and is currently a Board
member, being particularly keen to encourage Branch activity and
facilitate member's development, particularly that of young
professionals.
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John Dow
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John Dow has spent his entire
career as a geologist, exploration manager and mining executive, most
recently as Managing Director of Newmont Australia before retiring in
2005. He continues to be actively involved in the Australasian minerals
industry as a non-executive director of Troy Resources and Glass Earth
Ltd, member of the JORC and Audit and Risk Managements committees, chair
of the Minerals Exploration Action Agenda and chairman of WASM and CODES
external advisory boards. John is also a Director of The AusIMM 2007-2009.
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Vivienne Bull
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Graduated
MSc(Hons) Geology from Auckland University. Twenty five years experience
in NZ mining industry with AHI Minerals, Ministry of Energy and BHP Gold.
Currently running Vivienne Bull Tenement Consultant specialising in NZ
mining licensing. Member of AusIMM for more than twenty years and an
ex-Director on the AusIMM Board. Councillor of NZ Minerals Industry
Association.
ion.
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Les McCracken
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Graduated BSc (Hons) Mining
from Otago University in 1975. Is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute
of Mining and Metallurgy. Has over 30 years experience in opencast
mining as a Mine Manager and contractor in coal, iron ore and gold in
Australasia and in civil construction projects in New Zealand. Has
managed a number of major civil construction and mining projects when
General Manager of Doug Hood Limited, a major New Zealand mining
contractor. In 1998 formed his own project management and
consulting company and now works for clients in New Zealand on both
mining and major civil earthworks projects. Is currently contracted
to Pike River Coal Ltd as Project Manager for the capital works phase of
the development of the Pike River Coal Mine, with prime responsibilities
being construction of the road, tunnel facilities and services.
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Tony Christie
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Tony
Christie is a Senior Minerals Geologist with GNS Science. He completed an
MSc thesis on New Zealand ironsands and a PhD thesis on epithermal
gold-silver deposits at Victoria University of Wellington. Between 1980
and 1985, Tony worked in exploration for gold molybdenum and tungsten
deposits in New Zealand for BP Oil (NZ) Ltd. In 1985, Tony joined New
Zealand Geological Survey, which was restructured into the Institute of
Geological and Nuclear Sciences in 1992, later renamed GNS Science. His
work for these organisations has included research on epithermal and
mesothermal gold deposits, 1:50,000 scale regional geological mapping,
and the development and management of several minerals databases. He was
senior editor of AusIMM monograph 25 Geology and Exploration of New
Zealand Mineral Deposits and has been on the organising committee of
several annual conferences of the NZ Branch of the AusIMM.
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John St George
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Current
position as senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Resource
Engineering. I have a BSc degree in mining engineering from Imperial College,
London, MSc in Rock Mechanics and Excavation Engineering from Newcastle
University and has PhD from Auckland University for research into slope
stability.
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have worked in the minerals industry in Africa and the UK. Research
interests include the strength of coal in relation to stress effects;
spontaneous combustion; the environmental effects of blast vibrations and
subsidence related to mineral extraction sites. I am currently chairman
of the AusIMM Education Endowment Trust.
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Bob Brathwaite
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Bob is a Senior Minerals
Geologist in the Geothermal and Minerals Section of the Institute of Geological
and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) at Lower Hutt. After graduating with a MSc
from Victoria University, Bob worked as a mine geologist at the Rosebery
zinc-lead-copper mine in Western Tasmania. This work led to doing a PhD
thesis on the geology and origin of the Rosebery ore deposit at the
University of Tasmania. After several more years down the mine, he then
spent 8 years in searching for gold, zinc, lead, copper and tungsten in
mainland Australia and New Zealand, working for several major mining companies.
A long term wish to do research on the formation of mineral deposits
brought him back to study the gold-silver deposits of the Coromandel
Region, with the Geological Survey DSIR and its successor GNS. Over the
past 23 years, Bob has made detailed studies of the formation of
gold-silver, lead-zinc and zeolite deposits in the Coromandel, Northland,
Taupo Volcanic Zone and Westland, as well as producing maps and reports
on the distribution mineral deposits throughout New Zealand. He was a
coauthor of a popular book on the Mineral Wealth of New Zealand.
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Richard Barker
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Richard Barker is a graduate
of Victoria University of Wellington - MSc(Hons) in geology and
geochemistry – and since the mid-1970s has worked for government
agencies, companies, consulting organisations and mining industry
associations. He now works from Auckland as a self-employed consulting
geologist.
After
about 20 years working in exploration in NZ, Australia, the Pacific
Islands and Asia, his work now encompasses information research, public
policy development and advice to the industry including metals,
industrial minerals and aggregates, ranging from exploration through to
production, fund-raising and permitting. Clients include companies,
government agencies (including GNS Science) and industry organisations.
His particular interests now are related to improving the recognition of
New Zealand’s mineral potential.
He
is a Trustee of the NZ Branch Education Endowment Trust, and is
interested in further developing the educational activities of the
branch, along with the NZ Branch conferences.
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Student and Young Professional Representatives
Hugh Davies
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Hugh Davies is an environmental
geochemist with Golder Associates (NZ) Ltd and based in the Christchurch
office. He has a BSc and BCom from
the University of Canterbury and an MSc from the University of Otago, in
which he investigated the geochemical changes that occurred following pH
remediation of acid mine drainage at Stockton Coal Mine. During the
course of his MSc research he was supported by the AusIMM NZ Branch as a
recipient of an AusIMM Tertiary Endowment Trust Scholarship. On the New
Zealand Branch Committee Hugh is a representative for students and new
professionals and in this role has represented the branch at the AusIMM
New Leaders Conference on several occasions.
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Campbell Ryland
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