Age of the Archaean Murchison Belt and mineralisation, South Africa - Dr Julian Vearncombe

04 May 2002 GSSA Lunchtime talk with Dr. Julian Vearncombe

Dr Julian Vearncombe, Principal Consultant at SJS Resource Management, discusses the age of the Age of the Archaean Murchison Belt and mineralisation.

Julian is an economic geologist with 30 years’ experience working across the value chain of the mineral resource industry, and on all continents except Antarctic. His energetic and varied career includes academia, technology development, consultancy, management and as a Director of publicly-listed companies.

Julian has expertise in precious, base and strategic metals, with experience in executive and strategic management, public listing, and the identification of key projects. He has been a member of teams that identified more than eight million ounces of gold and one of the world’s largest tungsten resources.

A significant focus of Julian’s working career has been the application of effective structural geology to mineral exploration and mining. Julian is the inventor of SpaDiS™ technologies.

Julian is the author or co-author of more than one hundred publications. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied Earth Sciences (the combined Transactions of the AusIMM and IMMM-B) and is active in the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG).