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Friday, 6th Aug, 2021
Online
04.00PM – David Groves – Mineral Systems, Craton Margins, and Exploration Spaces for Diverse Mineral Deposits
05.00PM – Happy Hour – Q&A + Networking
David Groves
Born in Brighton, England, David Groves was educated at Varndean Grammar School, Hobart High School and University of Tasmania, ultimately completing a PhD on the giant Mt Bischoff tin deposit. After a period with the Geological Survey of Tasmania, David was appointed Lecturer in Economic Geology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1972. In 1987, he was awarded a Personal Chair at UWA and formed the Centre for Strategic Mineral Deposits, which morphed into the Centre for Global Metallogeny, with him as Director, and which became the Centre for Exploration Targeting after his retirement as Emeritus Professor.
He had a very successful academic career in terms of approximately 500 highly cited published papers and book chapters, many keynote and invited lectures, and mentorship of many outstanding postgraduates, being awarded 13 medals and prizes, including the SEG Silver and Penrose Gold Medals and the SGA-Newmont Gold Medal, and being inducted into the Australian Academy of Sciences as a Fellow in 2003. In 2018, he was made an Australian Geoscience Champion by the Australian Geoscience Council. In 2020 he was Distinguished Lecturer for 2020 and recognized as one of the 125 Faces of Geoscience by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has also been the only person to be President of GSA, SEG, and SGA during his career and has represented Australia on UNESCO committees. Since his retirement from a salaried position at UWA, David has consulted to industry in Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America, being involved in discovery of two gold deposits during greenfield exploration in Tanzania and Ethiopia, and a recent greenfield exploration success in Quebec.
