Consultancy operating from Poland and Spain, providing a broad range of services to the mineral exploration industry, with particular focus on Europe and North Africa, in particular Morocco

Rathdowney Resources is a Hunter Dickinson-Group company, involved in advanced-stage exploration of MVT-type Zn-Pb mineralization in Poland (Zawiercie zinc district, Upper Silesia). The exploration program consisted so far of IP geophysics and >25,000m of confirmation drilling, leading to resource definition.Rathdowney is also involved in early-stage exploration for carbonate-hosted ‘Irish-style’ Zn-Pb mineralization in Ireland (total of 10 individual projects covering an area of >2,300 km2), consisting of an extensive shallow soil sampling program, deep overburden geochemistry and geological mapping, backed by heliborne TEM and airborne FTGG (gravity) surveys, leading to drill target definition and >5,000 m of drilling.Various roles held, spanning different aspects of managing the company’s exploration program, e.g., establishing local offices and hiring crews, identifying exploration opportunities and project generation, permitting exploration licences and maintaining the company’s land tenement in good standing, technical supervision of the exploration program, liaising with technical advisors and external consultants, 43-101 report preparation, analysis of the local mineral policies and legislation, liaising with government administration and stakeholders, leading site visits of analysts/investors, preparation of corporate presentations/news releases, etc.

Exploration for volcanic- and sediment-hosted Cu-Ag mineralization in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco, including a field review of nearly two dozen mineralized occurrences, structural and alteration mapping, prospecting, reviewing the results of the drilling program as well as ground and airborne geophysical data, designing an exploration model, and involvement in the preparation of a pre-feasibility study for the volcanic redbed copper Alous deposit.

Work on ‘manto’-style Zn-Pb-Ag mineralization in Peru (Solex Resources Corp.), epithermal Au mineralization in Serbia’s Timok zone (Eurasian Minerals Inc.), exploration for U and Au mineralization in the Tim Mersoï Basin and Aïr Massif area of Niger, as well as near the Adrar des Iforas Massif in Mali (SRK Exploration Services UK), as well as frequent French-English/English-French document and report translation services (for Phelps Dodge, SRK, Aurum Exploration Services, and others).

Mineral deposit research group of Prof. Anthony E. Williams-Jones.In charge of the Fluid Inclusion laboratory (Linkam THMSG-600 and USGS/”Reynolds” VIS/IR stages, Leitz 1350 melt stage) and Gas Chromatography laboratory (HP 5890 Series II gas chromatograph).Also, Journal Reviewer: Economic Geology (Journal of the SEG), Mineralium Deposita (Journal of the SGA), Ore Geology Reviews (Journal of the IAGOD), Canadian Mineralogist (Journal of the MAC).

‘Understanding Planet Earth’ - a full-credit science course in Physical Geology in the summer 2003 (52 students), winter 2004 (141 students), summer 2004 (45 students), winter 2005 (207 students), and summer 2005 (50 students).‘Environmental Geology’ - a full-credit science course in the summer 2005 (28 students).

Assistant at the Electron Microprobe laboratory (JEOL’s JXA-8900L).Also, 11 teaching assistant appointments (Mineral Deposits, Introduction to Petrology, Environmental Geology).