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Background and Experience
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Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, ArcGIS, Irfanview, CorelDraw
Communication to Boards and Councils, Public Education and Outreach
Fully fluent in French and English, technical editing and translation
Thorough, responsible, enthusiastic, safe and conscientious worker
First Aid
- B.Sc. Geology, McGill University 1984
- Professional Geologist (P. Geo.) designation in B.C. (Engineers and Geoscientists BC no 38518)
- Extensive experience in all phases of mineral exploration
- Effective technical editor
- Experience in exploration for gold, base metals and industrial minerals
- Experience in land use planning: awareness of political, regulatory and socioeconomic environment
- Geological compilations, target definition
- Research, data analysis, data management
- Experience and strong interest in geological education
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, ArcGIS, Irfanview, CorelDraw
Communication to Boards and Councils, Public Education and Outreach
Fully fluent in French and English, technical editing and translation
Thorough, responsible, enthusiastic, safe and conscientious worker
First Aid
Highlights
- Over 25 years of professional geological experience, mainly in the Yukon, B.C. and in Québec
- Compilation, targeting, execution and supervision of field programs, data management and reporting of results for a variety of mineral exploration and government projects
- Course work and experience in technical editing
- Experience in a variety of mineral deposit types, mainly: intrusive-hosted and intrusive-related gold deposit, skarns (Cu, Au and Mo), porphyry copper, porphyry Mo-W, ultramafic-hosted nickel, epithermal gold, VMS, gold manto, graphite
- Conducted mineral assessment exercises at various scales for the purpose of land use planning. Communication of methodology and results to local boards and councils, senior bureaucrats, politicians and general public
- Initiated first Yukon Land Status Map
- Selwyn Basin metallogeny web page
- Compilation of all stream sediment data (RGS) on contract to Yukon Government (2002)
- Discovery of several new mineral occurrences
- Two geological publications for general public. Numerous presentations on geology and mineral potential to general public, boards, planning teams and school groups.
Services
- Project management and supervision (drilling, trenching, mapping, prospecting, soil sampling, etc.)
- Technical editing (reports, news releases, websites)
- Compilations and target definition
- Data management
- Maps
- Research
- Assessment work, management, reports and filing
- Geological mapping, sampling and prospecting
- NI-43-101 Technical Reports
- News release writing and editing
- Grant proposals
- Digital and web products
- Translation English/ French
- Safety manuals
Professional Affiliations
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEG BC), license no. 38518
- Editors Canada
Digital, Public Education, and Web Products
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