| Dr. David Groves Position: Director of Project Development - Tanzania Dr. Groves was a Professor of Economic Geology and Director of University Western Australia's Centre for Global Metallogeny. He is now Emeritus Professor attached to the Centre for Exploration Targeting. Dr. Groves' major expertise lies in economic geology, the formation of mineral deposits, particularly gold, and conceptual targeting of mineral deposits. Professor Groves has had a distinguished career as a geologist and educator and has been honoured as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. During his academic career, Dr. Groves authored and co-authored over 500 papers and is widely published on Archaean evolution, the nature and of genesis orogenic gold deposits, global metallogeny and conceptual targeting of mineral deposits. He was President of the Geological Society of Australia and the Society of Economic Geologists, and is currently President-Elect of SGA (European Society of Economic Geologists). He has received nine medals for his research, including the Silver Medal of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Association of Canada Medal. Professor Groves' publications continue to influence the way academic and mining industry personnel understand Earth processes world-wide, particularly in relation to mineralization and exploration. Importantly, he has acted as a consultant and provided training courses to exploration companies in Tanzania and assisted the Geological Survey of Tanzania and Ministry of Energy and Minerals with their publication on resource opportunities in Tanzania. He has also supervised several MSc and PhD students from Tanzania, leading to an improved understanding of controls on Tanzanian gold deposits. | |
| Iain Groves, B.Sc. Position: Senior Exploration Geologist Mr. Groves has 20 years of gold and base-metal exploration experience with numerous mining companies including WMC and Homestake. He has explored for a variety of commodities and deposit styles, including Ni, Cu, PGEs, Au, Ag and diamonds in diverse terranes including the Yilgarn goldfields, Broken Hill, Ballarat, the Tanami, Tanzania and Mexico. Mr. Groves has previously been part of several successful exploration groups at Fortnum (Au) and Reliance (Zn), and has been involved in target generation and developing an improved understanding at the giant Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag Mine. | |
| Denis Dillip Position: Tanzania - Consulting Geologist Mr. Dillip is a professional geologist with work experience in gold exploration from the Archean Greesntone and Proterozoic belts of Tanzania. Mr. Dillip graduated with a BSc in geology from University of Dar es Salaam in 2000. In 2001 he was engaged as mine geologist at Anglo Ashanti's Geita gold mine, the largest gold mine in east Africa. In 2004 Mr. Dillip served the Anglo gold ashanti exploration team as project geologist managing two projects, the Mkurumu and Njoge gold projects located in Proterozoic Pan African Mobile Belt of Tanzania. |
