Staff profiles
Bob BrathwaiteEmeritus Scientist
Biography
Bob Brathwaite has BSc and MSc degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. He spent 15 years in mine and exploration geology in various parts of Australia with several major mining companies. In 1979 he joined the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science), where he was a Senior Minerals Geologist and now continues as an emeritus scientist. Bob has worked on epithermal and orogenic Au, VMS Zn-Pb-Cu, porphyry Cu-Mo, Zn-Pb skarns, ironsands, zeolite and clay deposits, in addition to producing maps and reports on mineral deposits in New Zealand.
Qualifications
- MSc Hons
- BSc
- PhD
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Geochemical alteration mapping
- Geology: Geological alteration mapping
- Geology: Mineral deposit research
- Geology: Hydrothermal alteration mapping
- Geology: Industrial minerals
- Geology: Metallic minerals
- Geology: Mineral and rock indentification
- Geology: Mineral resource assessment
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Geological and mineralogical characterization of zeolites in lacustrine tuffs, Ngakuru, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Clays and Clay Minerals 51(6): p. 589-598. DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2003.0510601. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2913 p. 589-598
- The Waihi epithermal gold-silver-base metal sulfide-quartz vein system, New Zealand : temperature and salinity controls on electrum and sulfide deposition, Economic Geology 97: p. 269-290. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2411 p. 269-290
- Telescoped porphyry Cu-Mo-Au mineralisation, advanced argillic alteration and quartz-sulphide-gold-anhydrite veins in the Thames district, New Zealand, Mineralium Deposita 36(7): p. 623-640. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2291 p. 623-640
- Geology of the Waihi area : part sheets T13 and U13. Scale 1:50 000 Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences geological map 21 64 p. + 1 fold. map
- Metallogenic map of New Zealand Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 3 215 p.
- Geological setting of mineralisation in New Zealand, Mineral deposits of New Zealand : the Gordon J. Williams memorial volume Williams memorial volume: p. 1-8. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. p. 1-8
- The Hauraki goldfield - regional setting, mineralisation and recent exploration, Mineral deposits of New Zealand : the Gordon J. Williams memorial volume Williams memorial volume: p. 45-56. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. p. 45-56
- Geology and exploration of the Martha Hill gold-silver deposit, Waihi, Mineral deposits of New Zealand : the Gordon J. Williams memorial volume Williams memorial volume: p. 83-88. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. p. 83-88
- The geology and origin of the Rosebery ore deposit, Tasmania, Economic Geology 69(7): p. 1086-1101. p. 1086-1101
- The geology of the Boulder Lake area, north-west Nelson. Part 2, The Mount Olympus Granite Pluton, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 11(1): p. 92-122. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1968.10423675. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. p. 92-122
- The geology of the Boulder Lake area, north-west Nelson. Part 1, The Anatoki Formation, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 11(1): p. 78-91. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1968.10423674. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. p. 78-91