Argentina
Duration: 2019 – 2023
Deliverables: Advising on porphyry copper and epithermal copper-gold-silver projects in the Salta Region, Argentina. Acting as technical director for junior exploration company. Target generation and license area acquisition. Compilation of NI43-101 QPR.
Brazil
Duration: 2023-date
Deliverables: Field visit and review of various properties prospective for Ni-Cu (orthomagmatic/ laterite) and Au (orogenic) deposits in Goiás State. Continuous support for projects incl. ongoing data reviews and interpretation.
Guyana
Duration: 2019, 2024-25
Deliverables: Provision of technical orogenic gold training course to major and junior exploration and mining companies. Assisting GGMC (Geological Survey) with Mineral Mapping Study.
Wyoming (USA)
Duration: 2008-2009
Deliverables: Wireline log analysis and correlation, basin study and petroleum prospectivty
Canada (Ontario)
Duration: 2017
Deliverables: Delivery of annual field training with focus on greenstone belt-hosted orogenic gold deposits.
Québec
Duration: 2022
Deliverables: Technical review of tenure around the Walbouchi LCT Pegmatite Deposit, including interpretation of till geochemistry, magnetic surveys, and reporting writing.
Papua New Guinea
Duration: 2011-2013
Deliverables: Desktop study, Common Risk Segment mapping onshore/ offshore, production of play schematics and cross-sections
India
Duration: 2024
Deliverables: Integrated geological-mining and minerals engineering-hydrometallurgy study and review of Li-Cs pegmatite deposit in the Bengal area. Suggestions for further exploration work, resource drilling and metallurgical testwork.
Myanmar
Duration: 2016 – date
Deliverables: Multi-disciplinary exploration desktop study and review of regional mineralization potential. Planning of regional geochemical survey with focus on skarn-related and epithermal gold and base-metal deposits
Mongolia
Duration: 2022-date
Deliverables: CP and technical advisor for junior exploration company focusing on battery metals. Review of pegmatite exploration data of the Central Gobi Desert, training of geology team.
Eastern Former Soviet Union (Russia)
Duration: 2008-2014
Deliverables: Desktop studies, exploration targeting reports for hydrocarbons and industrial minerals, production of depositional environment/ tectonic, chronostratigraphic maps and charts.
Sierra Leone
Duration: 2017
Deliverables: Interpretation of proprietary geochemical and geophysical datasets to aid private exploration company in targeting orogenic gold and REE pegmatite deposits. Field visit, training, and follow-up target generation.
Svalbard (Norway)
Duration: 2007-2008
Deliverables: Organic geochemistry analysis and palaeoenvironmental study
Ireland
Duration: 2016, 2023
Deliverables: Target generation using GSI datasets. Published paper. Field visit and project due diligence on newly discovered spodumene occurrence.
United Kingdom
Duration: 2016 – date
Deliverables: Current base, regional geology, field trips and exploration targeting with local junior exploration companies.
France
Duration: 2017 – 2019
Deliverables: Regional reconnaissance sampling and mapping in the Vosges Mountains for polymetallic and W-Sn and LCT targets
Estonia
Duration: 2020
Deliverables: Advising on geotechnical logging procedures and workflows for Paldiski hydropower station. Training of local geological team.
Sweden
Duration: 2023-24
Deliverables: Field visit and review of various properties prospective for Sn greisen and rare metal pegmatite mineralisation. Field mapping and soil sampling.
Finland
Duration: 2016 – 2022
Deliverables: Prospectivity map for orogenic Au deposits in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, regional exploration targeting. Delivery of annual field courses with focus on exploration techniques for greenstone-hosted gold deposits. Conceptualisation and delivery of the Society of Economic Geologists “European Exploration Targeting Boot Camp”.
Norway
Duration: 2021-date
Deliverables: VMS exploration in the Trøndelag region. Provision of expert consulting services to Canadian-listed junior exploration company, including the interpretation of magnetic survey datasets and Ionic Leach soil geochemistry. This supported the definition of new exploration targets and improved the overall exploration strategy.
Further involvement with other ASX-listed junior exploration company as senior technical advisor. Starting up greenfields exploration from scratch in 2021, then handing over to permanent local team. Conducted first-ever large scale reconnaissance exploration for rare-element pegmatites in the Nord Helgeland area (2022) as project leader.
Nigeria
Duration: 2022-2023
Deliverables: Review of exploration and mining opportunities for two separate international investor groups in the FCT and Kwara Districts. Commodities: Sn-W deposits (Cornish-style mineralisation), Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites. Compilation of NI43-101 QPR for properties east of Abuja.
Namibia
Duration: 2010-2013
Deliverables: Resource drilling campaigns for Rossing Uranium Z20 expansion project and upgrade of overall resource.
Mozambique
Duration: 2018 – date
Deliverables: Advising junior exploration company on new discovery of gold mineralisation along the Lurío Shear Zone. Compilation of technical reports and field visit.
Tanzania
Duration: 2008
Deliverables: Coal exploration in the Songea area.
Zambia
Duration: 2013-2016, 2024
Deliverables: Greenfields copper target generation and testing in underexplored areas of NW Zambia, logistics, HSEC (2013-2016). Review of LCT pegmatite targets in the Choma-Kalomo Block and design of first-pass exploration programme (2024).
Rwanda
Duration: 2018
Deliverables: field visit, sampling and prioritization of Sn-W-LCT and coltan pegmatite target areas. Production of technical summary report for AIM-listed company
Rwanda
Duration: 2019 – 2020
Deliverables: Several visits to the Nyamasheke area. Investigated a number of REE granite occs using geological, geochemical, geophysical and drilling techniques. Also followed up on suspected “fossil fuel” occurrence. Compilation of high profile investor reports.
Ethiopia
Duration: 2022-23
Deliverables: Technical advisor and Qualified Person for greenfields and brownfields exploration in the Kenticha LCT pegmatite district. Canadian junior exploration company.
New South Wales
Duration: 2022
Deliverables: Strategic review of exploration licenses in the Kantappa Sn-Ta Pegmatite District. Provision of advice about follow-up exploration priorities.
Australia
Duration: 2016 -2018
Deliverables: Provision of training for orogenic gold exploration in Western Australia.
Western Australia
Duration: 2022
Deliverables: Strategic review of exploration licenses in the Pilgangoora LCT Pegmatite District. Provision of advice about follow-up exploration priorities.
Benedikt Steiner | MSci | ARSM | CGeol | Director
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