GESGB Aberdeen Evening Lecture – March 2024 (Hybrid)

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Speaker: Fraser Gardiner – Aberdeen Minerals

Topic: Mineral Exploration at the Arthrath Ni-Cu-Co Sulphide Deposit, Aberdeenshire: an Overview

Date/Timings: Tuesday 12 March – 18:00-19:00 (doors open at 17:30)

Venue: Inn at the Park, Ferryhill, AB11 7RX (free parking provided)

Catering: Self-funded bar

Online: The presentation will be available to view via live stream on Zoom. Login details will be sent to registered attendees one day prior to the event.

Mineral Exploration at the Arthrath Ni-Cu-Co Sulphide Deposit, Aberdeenshire: an Overview

Magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt sulphides were discovered at Arthrath by Rio Tinto Zinc in 1968 and the site remains the largest known nickel deposit in the UK. Sulphides occur as a camp-scale cluster of deposits and prospects located within a 7 km long, dyke-like, mafic-ultramafic intrusion branching from one of the multiple large, 470 Ma gabbroic bodies formed across NE Scotland during the Caledonian Orogeny.

The talk will discuss the prospectivity of the district and the opportunity being developed through the application of modern geological models and exploration technologies. Exploration progress using airborne geophysical surveys, ground-based geophysics and drilling will be presented, and there will also be a preview of the company’s planned work in the area in its search for domestic supplies of critical raw materials to support the energy transition.

Fraser Gardiner – Aberdeen Minerals

Fraser is the Chief Executive Officer of Aberdeen Minerals, based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. He graduated in Geology and Applied Geology at University of Glasgow in 1997 and subsequently spent his career in international mineral exploration. He has lived and worked in Bulgaria, Spain, Morocco, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Laos, working on mineral exploration and mine development projects based on precious, base and speciality metal projects. He returned to Scotland for family reasons during the covid pandemic and was delighted to finally have the opportunity to work in his home country when he joined Aberdeen Minerals in July 2022.