Alison Cole is a renowned Senior Geologist who has developed strong skills in the assessment of minerals sands projects and construction materials. Alison has been working closely with Everlast’s mineral sands project in Gaibandha. Her strict supervision & monitoring and regular site visits made the exploration program a success and international standard.

 

Key Skills:

 

  • Competent Person for heavy mineral sands exploration reporting
  • Planning and management of mineral sand exploration programs, drilling supervision & core logging in strandline, dunal, off-shore and residual deposits
  • Coal exploration field program and site management, drilling and logging programs
  • Dimension stone field and resource assessments
  • Research and project planning, landholder liaison, prospectivity reviews
  • Project planning, with excellent communication skills with clients and strong training, staff & project management experience

 

Qualifications:

1985 BSc (Hons), University of New South Wales

1996 MSc, University of Sydney

 

Professional Memberships:      

Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists

 

Summary of Experience:

 

2008 to present Geos Mining: Geologist / Consultant – Mineral Sands and Industrial Minerals

  • Drilling, rig supervision, in-pit grade control & logging mineral sands in the Murray- Darling basin and in the Eucla Basin of SA
  • Grade control geologist for an open cut coal mine and a mineral sand mine (short term positions)
  • Exploration drill plan for QIM – residual mineral sands deposit developed on a layered gabbro
  • Coal logging and CSG drilling (slow and fast gas desorption) in Qld and NSW
  • Exploration program management for expanding open cut mine at Cullen Bullen, Western Coalfield
  • Site Supervisor Queensland coal exploration program (S123 &S11)
  • Evaluation of dimension stone deposits in China
  • Independent technical report for heavy mineral sands
  • Quality control inspection dimension stone (sandstone)

 

2001 to 2002 University of Sydney: Lecturer & curator, School of Geosciences

  • Lecturing in palaeontology & palaeoceanography

 

1990 to 1998 University of Sydney, Technical Officer / laboratory assistant

  • Field and laboratory work in sedimentology
  • Laboratory manager for major projects and contracts for Sydney Water
  • QA/QC design and implementation

 

1986 to 1987 BMI, Field Geologist.

  • Exploration for construction materials, and selection of new dimension stone/quarry resources.