Chris is a geologist with over 30 years combined experience in exploration, mining geology, and environmental management. Since joining SRK in 2001, Chris has worked on numerous exploration targeting/assessment and structural geological risk studies for minerals (mainly gold, copper, base metals, coal).
He is an experienced consultant and project manager in a range of areas including geological risk, exploration, independent technical reviews, and valuations. His project experience includes managing a base and precious metals exploration program in far-west Queensland, copper-gold and base metals exploration programs in central New South Wales, a large early exploration unconventional petroleum study and related exploration field programs in the Proterozoic Beetaloo, McArthur, and South Nicholson basins in the Northern Territory, as well as leading several multi-disciplinary projects including two multi-client, basin-scale structural framework and risk studies. His extensive gold experience includes Archaean greenstones, the eastern Australian Palaeozoic arc/fold belts, as well as studies in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, and Mongolia.
