RESUME
RESUME
PERSONAL DETAILS
ADDRESS 16 Russell Place, Edinburgh EH5 3HH, Scotland,
TEL/FAX +44-0131-552-3904
E-Mail parker@easynet.co.uk
DATE OF BIRTH March 13th 1946
MARITAL STATUS Married, 3 children
NATIONALITY British and Canadian
LANGUAGES English (mother tongue) French, Spanish, (functional)
QUALIFICATIONS University of Newcastle, England. B. Sc. (Honours) Geology, 1968
EMPLOYMENT
1990 - present CONSULTING MINING GEOLOGIST
Providing an independent consultancy service to the international minerals industry. Services provided include exploration project management, ore reserve estimation, mineral property appraisals and acquisitions, independent project reviews and audits for loan funding and Stock Exchange listings.
Recent assignments have included:
Management of exploration projects Proterozoic gold, Scotland, Spain
Management of Tertiary gold exploration project Republic of Georgia
Technical evaluation and audits of volcanic-hosted gold projects Russia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
Ground evaluation and acquisition for gold, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Gabon, Cote d'lvoire, Congo, Portugal, Czech Republic, Ireland, Egypt, Kyrgystan, Russia.
Canadian Stock Exchange qualifying reports, volcanic hosted gold, Peru, Papua New Guinea
Due diligence studies for an alluvial gold project in West Africa, Birimian gold project, Ghana, skarn Gold, Ecuador and Spain, vein hosted lead-zinc mine, Morocco, base metal tailings re-processing project, Eastern Europe
Ground selection and acquisition for carbonate-hosted base metals, Northern England.
Resource audit of a vein-hosted tin mine
Technical evaluation of sandstone-hosted uranium deposits, East Africa
Technical adviser to exploration programmes for gold, tantalum, baryte and dimension stones, Nigeria.
Clients list includes: A.C.A.Howe International Ltd, Behre Dolbear International Ltd, Berlant Trading Co., Caledonia Mining Corporation, Ennex International PLC, Churchill Mining Ltd, Guinea Coast Mining Ltd., Inca Pacific Ltd, Latin American Gold, Menora Resources Ltd, Panorama Resources Ltd, Pittston Mineral Ventures Intl., Redback Mining NL, Sepik Gold Ltd, South Crofty PLC.
1982-1990 MINERAL EXPLORATION CONSULTANT, Ennex International PLC, Dublin, Ireland
My work during this time was predominantly in Scotland, where an exploration programme which I designed and directed resulted in the discovery of the Cononish Deposit (750,000 tons grading 8g/t Au) and the recognition of Scotland as a precious metal province. I was subsequently responsible for ore reserve and feasibility study at Cononish.
I was retained by Ennex to generate new prospects in Scotland and to evaluate mining and exploration submissions on their behalf, including critical reviews of Ennex’s exploration programmes in Nevada and Ireland and mining property appraisals in Spain and Greece.
1980-1982 CLUFF MINERAL EXPLORATION LTD., London, England.
As Senior Geologist I was responsible for the Company's exploration activities in Britain and Ireland, including Project generation and the. implementation and supervision of exploration programmes for base and precious metals, industrial minerals and coal.
This work identified a number of significant and potentially economic mineral occurrences but was terminated for corporate reasons.
1970-1980 NORTHGATE EXPLORATION LTD., and associated companies, Toronto, Canada.
1974-1980 As Senior Geologist I was responsible for designing and implementing the Company's exploration programmes in Eastern Canada, this included:
Uranium exploration in Carboniferous sandstone in the Deer Lake area of Newfoundland, and in Grenville-aged gneisses in Labrador and Quebec, involving 20 field staff.
Gold and base metal exploration in Abitibi volcanics of Ontario.
1970-1974 As regional geologist I was responsible for implementing an exploration programme for carbonate-hosted base metals in the Carboniferous of Ireland. This programme resulted in the discovery of the Tatestown zinc-lead deposit.
1969-1970 SELECTION TRUST LTD., London, England
As Junior Geologist I worked on the feasibility study of the Sar Cheshmeh porphyry copper deposit, Iran.
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member of the Institution
of Mining and Metallurgy
Professional Engineer (C.Eng)
European Engineer (Eur. Ing.)
Fellow of the Geological
Society of London
Member of Association
of Geoscientists for International Development
Member of Irish
Association for Economic Geology
Member of International
Liason Group for Gold Mineralisation
PUBLICATIONS
Parker, R.T.G., Clifford, J.A., and Meldrum, A.H., 1989. The Cononish Gold-Silver deposit, Perthshire, Scotland. Trans.Instn. Min. Metall. Section B, 98, B51-52
Clifford, J.A., Meldrum A.H., Parker, R.T.G and Earls, G., 1980-1990: a decade of gold exploration in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., 99, B133-138
Earls, G., Parker, R.T.G., Clifford, J.A., and Meldrum A.H., 1992, The geology of the Cononish gold-silver deposit, Grampian Highlands, of Scotland. in Bowden A.A. et al, The Irish Minerals Industry 1980-1990, IAEG.
