Ross Mcgowan
Director
Environmental Science
Handa Copper
Canada
Biography
Geologist with 16 years of academic, practical and corporate experience in the mining and exploration industry. Worked in partnership with Anglo American as a PhD candidate, focusing on understanding the evolution of sediment hosted copper deposits within the Central African Copperbelt. Published academic papers on the origin of copper-cobalt deposits in the Zambian Copperbelt. Managed and executed regional exploration and evaluation drilling programs and bankable feasibility studies. Key contributor to the team that received the 2015 PDAC Thayer Lindsley Award for the discovery of the Kamoa copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Research Interest
Environmental Science
