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University of Ottawa - Geography

Director, Structural Geology
Mining & Metals
Keith
Benn
Port Lambton, Ontario, Canada
P. Geo. - Ontario; Doctorate in Structural Geology; Gold Exploration; Due Diligence; Targeting; QP; Leapfrog 3-D modeling.

Senior English - French bilingual and Canadian - French bi-national Geoscience Expert with Exploration experience in terranes of West and East Africa, the Guiana Shield (South America), the USA and Canada. My skill set and experience include : Structural Geology; Leapfrog 3-D Modeling of Geology, Structure and Resource domains; Due Diligence; NI 43-101 Technical reporting; Exploration Targeting at all scales; Orogenic Gold; Interfacing with Exploration and Technical Services Groups; Structural interpretation of Downhole Televiewer Surveys; Mapping; Exploration Management from Greenfields through Feasibility Studies. I have strong contacts in industry and academia on several continents and I have published research on Orogenic gold deposits; Structural Geology; Granite-greenstone belt evolution; Pluton emplacement; Geochronology; Analog Tectonic Modeling.

Experience

  • Terracognita Geological Consulting Inc.

    President & Principal Consultant : Structural Geology; Gold Exploration; Due Diligence; Targeting

    I am a French - English bilingual, Canadian - French bi-national Doctoral level Geoscientist offering the following services : Structural and Geological analyses of gold deposits and exploration plays; Due Diligence of Brownfields and Greenfields projects; NI 43-101 Technical reporting; Leapfrog 3-D models of Geology, Structure and Resource domains; Exploration Targeting at all scales; Downhole Televiewer data analysis; Drill program planning; Training of Geologists in English or French; Geological and Structural Mapping; Geological and Structural contributions to Feasibility Studies. My work experience includes terranes of West and East Africa, the Guiana Shield (South America), the USA and Canada. Strong contacts in industry and academia on several continents.

  • Columbus Gold Corp.

    Directeur Technique (fixed term contract)

    Fixed term contract January - December, 2015. Direction of all technical aspects of the Exploration program in French Guiana; Owner of the Geological interpretation and the Geological and Structural models of the Montagne d'Or gold deposit (as of Q1_2016; 5 Moz Indicated + Inferred); Managed the Resource update and Phase III drilling; Coordinated the inital stages of the Feasibility study; Brownfields and Greenfields targeting; Due Diligence of projects in French Guiana and Canada; Mentoring young Geos; Maintaining good HSE practices.

  • Kinross Gold Corporation

    Technical Director Exploration, Africa Region

    Gold Exploration; Structural, Lithostratigraphic and Tectonic analyses; Brownfields targeting in Ghana and Mauritania; Greenfields targeting covering West Africa; Advised on exploration strategies; Leapfrog Geological and Structural modeling; Mapping; Managed Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geochronology programs and interpreted the resulting data; Interfaced with Technical Services and Mine Geology; Planned drill programs; Due diligence; Budgeted Exploration and Geosciences programs; Mentored and Trained Geos; Maintained good HSE practices.

  • Kinross Gold Corporation

    Chief Geoscientist, Mauritania

    Gold Exploration; Structural, Lithostratigraphic and Tectonic analyses; Brownfields and Near Mine targeting; Advised on exploration strategies; 3-D Geological and Structural modeling; Mapping; Managed Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geochronology programs and interpreted the resulting data; Interfaced with Technical Services and Mine Geology; Planned and Managed drill programs; Due diligence; Budgeted Geosciences programs; Mentored and Trained Geos; Maintained good HSE practices.

  • St Andrew Goldfields Ltd.

    Exploration Manager

    Management of an Exploration program in the Abitibi belt, Superior Province, Canada, involving six diamond drill rigs and as many Geos; Structural interpretations; 3-D Geological and Structural modeling; Planned, implemented / interpreted IP surveys; Due diligence of Exploration properties; Budgeted Exploration programs; Mentored young Geos; Maintained good HSE practices; Advised on exploration strategies.

  • Goldcorp Inc.

    Director, Structural Geology

    Keith worked at Goldcorp Inc. as a Director, Structural Geology

Education

  • Université de Toulouse

    Habilitation

    Géologie
    Archean granite-greenstone belts.

  • Université de Toulouse

    Post-doctoral fellowship

    Geology
    Structural evolution and tectonics of an amphibolite grade Late Archean belt.

  • Université de Montpellier

    Research Doctorate

    Geology
    Structural and microstructural geology

Publications

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • The Late Archean Abitibi-Opatica terrane, Superior Province: a modified oceanic plateau

    Geological Society of America Special Paper 440

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • The Late Archean Abitibi-Opatica terrane, Superior Province: a modified oceanic plateau

    Geological Society of America Special Paper 440

  • The Tasiast Deposit, Mauritania

    Ore Geology Reviews

    An overview of gold mineralization at Tasiast and new geochronological data for gold deposition.

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • The Late Archean Abitibi-Opatica terrane, Superior Province: a modified oceanic plateau

    Geological Society of America Special Paper 440

  • The Tasiast Deposit, Mauritania

    Ore Geology Reviews

    An overview of gold mineralization at Tasiast and new geochronological data for gold deposition.

  • A detachment fold model for fault zones in the Late Archean Abitibi greenstone belt

    Tectonophysics

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • The Late Archean Abitibi-Opatica terrane, Superior Province: a modified oceanic plateau

    Geological Society of America Special Paper 440

  • The Tasiast Deposit, Mauritania

    Ore Geology Reviews

    An overview of gold mineralization at Tasiast and new geochronological data for gold deposition.

  • A detachment fold model for fault zones in the Late Archean Abitibi greenstone belt

    Tectonophysics

  • Emplacement of the Whistle Dike, the Whistle Embayment and Hosted Sulfides, Sudbury Impact Structure, Based on Anisotropies of Magnetic Susceptibility and Magnetic Remanence

    Economic Geology

  • Thermal transport properties of major Archean rock types to high temperature and implications for cratonic geotherms

    Precambrian Research

  • Tectonic delamination of the lower crust during Late Archean collision of the Abitibi-Opatica and Pontiac terranes, Superior Province, Canada

    American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph No. 164

  • Gold-bearing fault zones related to Late Archean orogenic folding of the Abitibi granite-greenstone belt, Ontario

    Precambrian Research

  • Insights on Archean geodynamics from gravity models of granite-greenstone terranes

    Journal of Geodynamics

  • Chemical Abrasion Applied to LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Zircon Geochronology

    Minerals

    Application of chemical abrasion to zircons to enhance the quality of LA-ICP-MS dating results.

  • The Late Archean Abitibi-Opatica terrane, Superior Province: a modified oceanic plateau

    Geological Society of America Special Paper 440

  • The Tasiast Deposit, Mauritania

    Ore Geology Reviews

    An overview of gold mineralization at Tasiast and new geochronological data for gold deposition.

  • A detachment fold model for fault zones in the Late Archean Abitibi greenstone belt

    Tectonophysics

  • Emplacement of the Whistle Dike, the Whistle Embayment and Hosted Sulfides, Sudbury Impact Structure, Based on Anisotropies of Magnetic Susceptibility and Magnetic Remanence

    Economic Geology

  • In situ U/Pb Granulite-hosted Zircon Dates, Kapuskasing structural zone, Ontario: A Late Archean Large Igneous Province (LIP) as a Substrate for Juvenile Crust

    Journal of Geology

Positions

  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

    Member

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

    Fellow

    urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAABNc7loBV0_GGqlZ7YlOBUbL1_FlkPpdp2k,512287788)

  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

    Practising

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  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

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  • Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO)

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  • Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)

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