PRESIDENT
Dr (Joe) Taihe Zhou
(PhD, MSc, AusIMM, FSEG)
Dr Zhou has worked in senior positions in exploration and mining industry and economic geology both in China and Australia for over 26 years. Joe was the General Manager Geology Projects of the AWI Administration Services Pty Ltd, which was the second gold producer in Australia, and Dr Zhou was responsible for projects of a number of public listed exploration and mining companies in Australia, including Great Central Mines Ltd, Centaur Mining and Exploration Ltd,Johnson's Well Mining NL, Quantum Resource Ltd and Astro Mining NL for some four years. He has involved in geology, exploration/mining of some major deposits of Archaean greenstone belt gold in western Australia, epithermal and unconformity-related gold in central Queensland, Proterozoic Cu-Au and Ag-Pb-Zn in north Queensland, and Witwatersrand goldfields in South Africa. Dr Zhou was a General Committee member of Victoria State, Australia Geological Society.
Dr Zhou has substantial experience in China gold, base metal and diamond exploration, he worked for the Chinese MGMR (Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources) for 12 years, and involved in Quantum/Astro as well as other Australian and northern American international company's exploration and mining of gold and diamond in China in recent years. Joe has worked on the Yangtze River porphyry-skarn Cu-(Au) deposits, gold and base metal deposits in NW China, diamond targeting in China, Carlin-like gold in SW China, and he was a group leader for the Metallogeny of East China project. He is one of the co-authors of the book "Mineral Deposits of China" published by the Chinese Government. Dr Zhou is an internationally recoganised expert for tectonics and gold mineralisation in China, and was a guest editor of Mineralium Deposita co-editing a special volume of "Tectonic and Gold Deposits in China" with Dr Richard Goldfarb of the US Geological Survey, which was published in 2002.
Dr Zhou is particularly an expert for China business development, he understands the Chinese updated exploration and mining legislations very well, and has excellent relationship and contacts with some senior officers in the key organizations in China, e.g. the Chinese Geological Survey and China Gold Bureau/China National Gold Corp. Joe was the GM, who initiated Quantum's gold projects in China. Joe has high negotiation skills for joint ventures with the Chinese mining industries and government, and he has consulted for many major international mining companies for exploration targets, acquisition and business development in China since 1993.Dr Zhou is highly regarded by the Chinese and international exploration and mining industries.
Dr Zhou is currently a Director and COO of Hainan Mining Corp, a company registered in London.
Selected Publications Related To China:
- Zhou, T. and Goldfarb, R. (2002) Preface for A Special Issue of "Tectonics & Metallogeny of Gold Deposits in China". Mineralium Deposita, v. 37, p.247-248.
- Zhou, T., Goldfarb, R. and Phillips, G. N. (2002) Tectonics and distribution of gold deposits in China - An overview. Mineralium Deposita, v. 37, p.249-282.
- Qiu, Y, Groves, DI, McNaughton, NJ, Wang, L, Zhou, T (2002) Nature, age and tectonic setting of orogenic lode-gold mineralization in the Jiaodong Peninsula of North China Craton, China. Mineralium Deposita, v. 37,p.283-305 .
- Rui, Z, Goldfarb, R, Qiu, YM, Zhou, T, Chen, R; Pirajno, F., Yun, G. (2002) Variscan gold deposits of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China. Mineralium Deposita, v. 37, p. 393-418 .
- Zhou, T, Lu, G (2000) Tectonics, granitoids and Mesozoic gold deposits in East Shandong, China, Ore Geology Reviews, v. 16,p.71-90 .
- Zhou, T., 1999, Tectonics and gold mineralisation in East China, Proceedings of PACRIM 99, Bali, Indonesia, International Congress, Aust. IMM Publications p. 341-345.
- Zhou, T., 1998, Major gold provinces and Tectonics of China. 14th Australian Geological Convention, Townsville, Geological Society of Australia Abstract no. 49, p. 496.
- Zhou, T., McQueen, K. and Mao, J., 1998, Laowanchang: an unusural regolith gold deposit in karst dominated terains, Guizhou Province, China. 14th Australian Geological Convention, Townsville, Geological Society of Australia Abstract no. 49, p. 497.
- Zhou, T., 1995, Copper skarn deposits in eastern China, in Mauk, J. L. & George, J. D. eds Proceedings of the 1995 PACRIM International Congress, "Exploration The RIM", 19-22 November 1995 Auckland, v. 4, p. 675-679.
- Zhou, T., 1993, Zoning of the Fengsandong skarn copper-molybdenum deposit, China, 2nd National Meeting Special Group in Economic Geology, Armidale. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 34, p. 81.
- Ge, C., Suen, H. and Zhou, T., 1992, Copper deposits of China: In the editorial committee of Mineral Deposits of China ed: Mineral Deposits of China, vol 1, chapter 1. Published by Chinese the Chinese Geological Publishing House, Beijing.
Selected Company Reports Related To China:
- Zhou, (Joe) T., June 2003, The Most Prospective Large OP Porphyry Copper Deposit in North China. Sino-QZ Group Confidential Report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T. & Dong, (Gina) G., May 2003, North China Project, Sino-Qz Group Confidential Report to Gold Fields.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., February 2003, 01 Gold Project - The Most Significant New Discovery in China in The Recent Years. Sino-QZ Group Confidential Report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T, December, 2002, Reviews on Chinese PGE Projects . Confidential Report Platinum Australia Limited.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., November, 2002, BMZ Gold Deposit in NE China. Confidential Report, Sino-QZ Group.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., October, 2002, Review on Copper and Copper-Gold Deposits in China. Confidential Report to Anglo American In-House Workshop.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., February, 2001, Significant potential of the L-J diamond project, SW China. Sino-QZ Group unpublished report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., April 1998, New Government Legislations for Exploration & Mining in China - New Opportunities. AWI Administration Services Pty Ltd, unpublished report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., November 1997, Tectonics, major gold provinces and the target areas for gold exploration in China. Quantum Resource Limited, unpublished report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., June 1997, An outline of the Xinjiang Tectonics in relation to diamonds. Astro Mining N.L., unpublished report.
- Zhou, (Joe) T., January 1997, The Tanjianshan Gold Mineralisation Belt, North Margin of the Qaidam Block, Qinghai Province, NW China. Quantum Resource Limited, unpublished report.
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