PhD opportunity in Economic Geology at the University of Western Australia

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Perth, Western Australia European Geosciences Union (EGU) Full time $60,000 - $80,000 per year

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Position

PhD opportunity in Economic Geology at the University of Western Australia

Employer

The University of Western Australia

PhD position (full-time, 3.5 years) at the Univeristy of Western Australia - School of Earth and Oceans - Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET).

This is your chance to join groundbreaking research at the nexus between earth sciences and mineral exploration and to become part of a passionate and international team of researchers with whom you will be actively working to integrate your research with the larger Yilgarn 2030 modules and objectives.

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Location

Perth, Australia

Sector

Academic

Relevant division

Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS)

Type

Full time

Level

Entry level

Salary

Fully funded position (tuition fees and living allowance)

Required education

Master

Application deadline

31 October 2025

Posted

24 September 2025

Job Description
Title:
"Unravelling gold mineralisation footprints"
Background
PhD opportunity as part of Yilgarn 2030, a collaborative research initiative on the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. Such initiative offers a novel, multi-disciplinary approach to investigate gold mineralising systems across the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane using a scale-integrated, multi-disciplinary approach. The generation of pre-competitive data and concepts during this collaborative research project aims at supporting exploration strategies.

PhD Project Rationale
One of the key challenges faced by explorers in mature gold camps across the Yilgarn Craton lies in deciphering the camp-scale mineralisation footprints (e.g. structural, stratigraphic, geochemical, geophysical) and vectors towards (higher-grade) gold mineralisation(s). By integrating such critical knowledge into exploration strategies, mining operations and exploration teams would have better tools to target concealed lodes within the mine and extend their search to brownfield areas in a more efficient and predictive way.

PhD Project Highlights

Fieldwork (regional / open pit / underground)


Structural geophysics

Structural analysis in a near-mine setting


Whole-Rock & mineral geochemistry

Petrography


U-Pb zircon dating

PhD Project Objectives

  • Build a robust structural framework for selected deposits and/or camps.
  • Unravel the paragenetic sequence of events (e.g. metamorphic, magmatic, mineralisation) from the micro to outcrop scale.
  • Undertake in-situ dating of gold mineralisation event(s) and anchor deformation phase(s) into a regional deformation scheme.
  • Develop a toolkit to help explorers be more predictive when targeting gold mineralisation(s).

Specific Project Requirements

  • MSc. degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline of geoscience
  • Ability to facilitate and undertake geological fieldwork
  • Demonstrated experience in applied structural geology
  • Some experience in the geological interpretation of geophysical datasets appreciated
  • Some experience in geochemical data analysis and/or petrography appreciated
  • Demonstrated communication, teamwork and leadership skills
  • Preparedness to work extensively in a site-based environment and integrate with the existing exploration/geological team

How to apply

Contact me as soon as soon as possible by e-mail

Please attach your CV and MSc. academic transcript to the e-mail

Quentin Masurel
Hammond-Nisbet Fellow

The University of Western Australia

School of Earth and Oceans - Centre for Exploration Targeting

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