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AusIMM NZ Branch Education Endowment Trust

The Trust is currently granting two types of scholarships:

Postgraduate scholarships of $5,000 to students undertaking research in geology, engineering or the environment that is related to the minerals and petroleum industries - closing date mid-year.

Post graduate Research Scholarship Information

Undergraduate Honours project scholarships to the value of $2000 are available for work in geology, engineering or the environment that is related to the minerals and petroleum industries closing date towards end of February. We welcome suggestions for additional projects that are consistent with the purpose of the Trust. Should you require any further information on the Trust or scholarships please contact one of the Trustees.

Honours Project Scholarship Information

Background Information

The NZ Branch Education Endowment Trust was set up with initial funding from profits of the Auckland PACRIM Congress in 1995. The NZ Trust is separate from the Education Endowment Fund operated by the AusIMM in Australia as New Zealand students are not eligible for the Australian EEF for tax reasons. Since the Trust's inception there have been more than 40 scholarships to students at New Zealand universities. Information on the Trust can be found in the Trust Deed

Purpose

The purpose of the Trust is to support activities that benefit the mining and petroleum industries in New Zealand. These include supporting research projects, providing research scholarships to students and funding lectures and endowed professorships.

Donations

The Trust is funded from donations, and from the NZ Branch of the AusIMM which derives most of its income from annual conferences. The Trust is registered with the NZ Inland Revenue Department as charitable trust, and donations are tax deductible.Donations can be made by members when annual membership subscriptions are paid, or directly to the NZ Branch at any time.

Trustees

John St George – Chairman j.stgeorge@auckland.ac.nz

Currently holds the position as senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Graduated with a BSc degree in mining engineering from Imperial College, London, MSc in Rock Mechanics and Excavation Engineering from Newcastle University and a PhD from Auckland University for research into slope stability. Pracical experience in the minerals industry in Africa and the UK. Research interests include the strength of coal in relation to stress effects and its permeability; the environmental effects of blast vibrations and subsidence related to mineral extraction sites.

John Hogan – Secretary johnho@winaggs.co.nz

Graeme Fulton – Treasurer graeme.fulton@xtra.co.nz

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.

Vivienne Bull vhbull@ihug.co.nz

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.

Richard Barker rbarker@ihug.co.nz

Richard is a geologist having graduated from Victoria University in Wellington with an MSc in geology and geochemistry. He has been established as an independent consulting geologist in Auckland after ten years working in Australia, NZ and the SW Pacific for mineral exploration companies and the New Zealand Government. Along with mineral exploration, 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 and industry organisations.

Stuart Rabone bhgc@xtra.co.nz

Recent Scholarship Recipients

2008-2009
Ben Andrews	Waikato University	Origin and Paleoenvironmental significance of widespread unconformities in NZ Paleocene sedimentary
Larissa MacMillan	Waikato University	Comparitive sedimentology and paleoecology of fossil giant oyster beds in Tertiary strata from New Zealand and Argentina
Melissa Troup	Waikato University	Stratigraphy, sedimentology and petrology of Miocene cold-seep limestones in the Wairapa ; the geological evidence for past seabed hydrocarbon seepage.
Rebecca Richards	Waikato University	U-Th and U/Pb double dating of detrital sedimentary grains from Fiordland Eocene - Miocene sedimentary section for provenance history
Jenny Stein	Otago University	Paleogeography of the Eastern Southland Coal Basin
2007-2008
Bradley Hopcroft	Waikato University	Depositional system of eastern Taranaki Basin and implications for hydrocarbon habitats
Hugh Davies	Otago University	Geochemical changes following pH remediation within the Mangatini Stream, Stockton Mine
Sarah Ewen	Waikato University	Miocene cold-seep limestones in northern Hawke's Bay: the geological evidence for past seabed hydrocarbon seepage.
Helen Cocker	Auckland University	Broken Hills Mine, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
James Mortimer	Auckland University	Structural aspects of the Favona low-sulphidation Au-Ag deposit, Waihi, New Zealand
2006-2007
Danielle Payne	Waikato University	North Kaipara shelf sands
Orla Hansen	Waikato University	Silica in limestone at Oparure quarry, Te Kuiti
Callum Browne	Auckland University	Mercury in soils at Martha and Favona, Waihi
Remalia Sharplin	Auckland University	Tui mine site water quality remediation
Annette King	Otago University	Arsenic levels and plant uptake on revegetated tailings, Macraes mine
Lauren Sunde	Auckland University	Golden Cross u/g vein textures, mineralogy and geochemistry
Campbell Ryland	Otago University	Geology, mineralisation and structure at Bald Hill, South Westland
2005-2006
Joanna Lea	Canterbury University	Geotechnical investigation of the highwall at the proposed Terrace opencast mine, Reddale, Reefton
Tim Mulliner	Otago University	Metals in Southland groundwater, and the influence of geological setting on their concentrations
Shannon Martin	Auckland University	Mineralogy, texture and geochemistry of vein samples from the Martha mine, Waihi
Philip Jones	Otago University	Structural evolution and mineralisation of the Hyde-Macrae's shear zone, Golden Bar pit, East Otago
2004- 2005
Alistair Stuart	Auckland University	Geology and geochemistry of the Karangahake epithermal gold and silver deposit, North Island, NZ
Matthew Harris	Auckland University	Geophysical characteristics of epithermal deposits in the southern portion of the Waitekauri Corridor, Hauraki Goldfield , NZ
Roelant Dewerse	Auckland University	Highwall stability assessment, Awaroa 4 Opencast Coal Mine, Rotowaro Coalfield, Huntly
Charles Rands	Otago University	Molybdenum bearing plutons of NW Nelson: geology, mineralization and tectonic setting

Annual Reports

The Trust's Annual Reports 2008, PDF.

The Trust's Annual Reports 2007, PDF.

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