DoctorTony Webster

Tony is currently a Principal Structural Geologist with Geo Discovery Group Pty Ltd, a team-based consultancy that provides project and target generation capabilities and specialist support services to the mining and mineral exploration industries. Tony has over 30 years' experience as an industry geologist, researcher, and educator, mostly working to understand the structure of complex base metal, gold and iron ore deposits through field based and 3D computer modelling methods. Tony particularly enjoys using archival mine data to create geological models of historically significant ore deposits to better understand ore environment and litho-structural controls. Tony began his career as an underground mine geologist on the Golden Mile in Kalgoorlie. After seven years in Western Australia, Tony moved to Broken Hill as a mine and lease exploration geologist. He undertook a masters through James Cook University and then commenced a PhD with CODES while working at Broken Hill. Tony returned to CODES as the Master of Economic Geology programme co-ordinator. During this period, the number of participants grew to 50 and the number of successful completions and graduations greatly increased. Tony left CODES to return to industry but subsequently spent four years as a senior research fellow at the University of Queensland, leading the Geology and Mass Mining Project, which evaluated the effects of geological architecture on deep earth bulk mining.