Geology, Geochemistry and Formation of Supergene Mineral Deposits in Deeply Weathered Terrain

About

Rob Bowell is Corporate Consultant with SRK Consulting and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queens University Kingston Ontario Canada and a research fellow of the Queens Facility for Isotope Research. He has 35 years of experience in the global mining industry. His background is in exploration and mining in tropical and deeply weathered terrains including extensive work in Equatorial and Southern Africa South America and Southeast Asia. He holds degrees in chemistry geology chemical engineering and a PhD in geochemistry on the occurrence of oxide gold deposits in Ashanti Ghana. He has worked for TCL Ashanti and Minorco prior to joining SRK. For the last 29 years he has worked in mining consulting in the fields of due diligence financial and technical audits process chemistry environmental geochemistry environmental engineering and mineralogy. Specializes in the application of chemistry and mineralogy to solve engineering problems. Has been involved in the discovery of copper projects that have been developed into mines in DRC Namibia and Zambia and discovered Gold and Diamond deposits in the Dodoma region of Tanzania and in northern Mozambique. He is currently involved in the development of the Kuene Copper districty in Northern Namibia. He has authored/coauthored over 250 papers edited monographs and reports including one on Arsenic as Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry volume 79 and edited as well contributed to volumes on applied chemistry/geochemistry for Nova Publishing series on chemical elements. He is deputy chief editor for Geochemistry Exploration Environment and Analysis and past president of the Association of Applied Geochemists.