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EXPANDED PROFILE
Mr Dawney has 33 years experience as a geologist in exploration for
mineral and energy commodities, including gold, base metals, coal, uranium,
and to a lesser extent tin, industrial minerals, petroleum, platinum, mineral
sands, bauxite & gemstones - as well as geological experience in other
land uses such as rural, environmental & land development. He has physically worked extensively
throughout Australia, as well as in China, Kalimantan (Indonesia), Burma
(Myanmar), Sweden, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Botswana (Africa) and North Korea,
and has undertaken desk-top studies from his home base for PNG, India,
Turkey, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Irian Jaya
(Indonesia).
Since 1983, Mr Dawney has operated as an independent consultant, and
has broad experience at all levels and phases of exploration from project
generation and "grass-roots" exploration through to resource
delineation. Currently he is the principal of management and consultancy
company AUSMEC Geoscience (Incorporating AUSMEC - Australasian Mineral
Exploration Consultants) which has been operating since 1993.
His fields of special competency include:
- Geological terrain analysis
using digital data and GIS - involving capture, compilation, integration
and interpretation of exploration related datasets, leading to
exploration target generation - from national to prospect scale.
- Mineral project evaluation,
including literature research, field investigation and due
diligence-type studies.
- International aid projects in
developing countries - involving formal training (both abroad and home
base), on-site assistance, development and implementation of sustainable
methodologies, mineral and administrative policy - for mineral
exploration, government data provision and exploration promotion.
- Government-industry liaison -
from Australian Federal and State governments to aid recipient
governments - for standards, policy, methodologies and products related
to the exploration industry.
- Application of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), terrain modelling, 3D visualisation and imagery for mineral exploration,
rural, land development, engineering and environmental industries.
- Analysis and interpretation
of exploration geochemistry - including advanced statistical and
graphical (thematic) spatial analysis.
- Hands-on field geology
operations in a range of environments including remote, rugged and
extreme environments. Specialising in stream,
rock, soil/RAB, glacial till sampling programs, drilling programs and
geological mapping.
- Geological data capture in
digital GIS format (including point, line, polygon and image data -
particularly vector spatial data), and publication quality map
production - predominantly in the MapInfo software environment.
- Training - courses, seminars,
workshops, phone support services and in-service training - related to
mineral exploration, MapInfo software and GIS.
- Geological interpretation of
remotely sensed images, including air photo, satellite and geophysical
images - formally trained as an image interpreter and tutored by some of
the most respected interpreters in the world.
Specialised experience in operating in
developing countries has been gained from his work in Indonesia, China
and Kyrgyzstan, and from
two Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (now AusAID) assistance programs in Burma
(Myanmar) and Pakistan
which provided on-site exploration assistance and training. Through this
overseas work, Mr Dawney has gained experience in
the cultural and religious sensitivities necessary for effective working and
training relationships in these and similar countries.
Apart from Mr Dawney’s hands-on,
project-oriented work, he has delivered a number of formal and informal
courses, workshops, seminars and project displays related to the AusAID Pakistan project, and has been a course presenter
for three Australian Mineral Foundation (AMF) training courses on mineral
exploration and two AMF sponsored in-service training courses for photogeologists. He is also a co-author of a manual for
early-stage, integrated, regional gold exploration. He has presented
conference & seminar papers, given workshops on GIS
applications for exploration based on his practical experience, carried out
MapInfo software training, and has contributed to articles in national
resource industry magazines as a respected professional.
He has previously been
involved in the management of a number of private and public exploration
companies and is currently an executive director of Lake Gold Pty Ltd, which
commenced exploring in Australia
(predominantly Queensland)
in 1985, and is now involved part-time in investing in emerging
exploration/mining companies.
Mr Dawney has also acted as an
expert geologist in preparing reports and arguments for use in Queensland courts, and
has appeared on the stand in these courts as an expert witness. He also advises government through his
activities with industry support groups (predominantly the Queensland
Resources Council).
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Qualifications:
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BAppSc-App Geol (Queensland
University of Technology) - 1977 -
Brisbane, Australia
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Affiliations:
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Member, Association
of Applied Geochemists - AAG
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Associate Member, Queensland Resources
Council - QRC
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Nationality
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Australian
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Year of Birth:
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1954
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