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Professor Dave Craw

Dave Craw

BSc PhD (Otago) MSc (Calgary)

 

Office - Geology 2N2

Tel 64 3 479 7529
dave.craw@otago.ac.nz

Director, Environmental Science Programme.

Co-ordinator, Applied Geology.

Teaching

100-level

200 Level

300 Level

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Research Interests

Links to additional pages

Metals in the New Zealand Environment
Gold
Mine restoration
Mine Drainage Framework
River capture

Major externally funded projects

  • South Island Precious Metals (FRST)
  • Fingerprinting Quartz (Marsden)

Postgraduate Student Supervision

PhD

  • Joanna (Asia) Druzbicka -  Linking geology with the impact of mining on the environment
  • Lauren Farmer - Investigating the temporal and spatial association between gold and tungsten at Macraes Mine, Central Otago

Recent Students

  • Tim Blackler (PGDipSci) - Hydrothermal alteration and gold
  • Hugh Davies (MSc) – Environmental geology of coal mine discharge and remediation.
  • Donna Falconer (PhD- The genesis of gold and sulphide mineralisation associated with quartz pebble conglomerates in sediment-hosted gold deposits, Southern New Zealand
  • Laura Haffert (PhD) - Metal attenuation around historic mines.

Selected Recent Publications

  • Davies, H., Weber, P., Lindsay, P., Craw, D., & Pope, J. (2011). Characterisation of acid mine drainage in a high rainfall mountain environment, New Zealand. Science of the Total Environment, 409(15), 2971-2980. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.034
  • Davies, H., Weber, P., Lindsay, P., Craw, D., Peake, B., & Pope, J. (2011). Geochemical changes during neutralisation of acid mine drainage in a dynamic mountain stream, New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.07.010
  • Stein, J., Craw, D., & Pope, J. (2011). Initial sedimentation and subsequent diagenesis in the Eastern Southland Lignite Basin, southern New Zealand.New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 54(2), 167-180. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2010.515599
  • Allibone, A., Ashley, P., MacKenzie, D., & Craw, D. (2010). Shear-hosted base metal mineralisation at the Dana Peaks, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53(4), 271-294.doi: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498406
  • Craw, D. (2010). Delayed accumulation of placers during exhumation of orogenic gold in southern New Zealand. Ore Geology Reviews, 37, 224-235.doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2010.03.006
  • Craw, D., Upton, P., Yu, B.-S., Horton, T., & Chen, Y.-G. (2010). Young orogenic gold mineralisation in active collisional mountains, Taiwan.Mineralium Deposita, 45(7), 631-646. doi: 10.1007/s00126-010-0297-4
  • Haffert, L., & Craw, D. (2010). Geochemical processes influencing arsenic mobility at Bullendale historic gold mine, Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53(2-3), 129-142. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498785
  • Haffert, L., Craw, D., & Pope, J. (2010). Climatic and compositional controls on secondary arsenic mineral formation in high-arsenic mine wastes, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53(2-3), 91-101. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498403
  • Haffert, L., Sander, S. G., Hunter, K. A., & Craw, D. (2010). Evidence for arsenic-driven redox chemistry in a wetland system: A field voltammetric study. Environmental Chemistry, 7(4), 386-397. doi: 10.1071/EN10019
  • Holley, E. A., Craw, D., & Kim, J. P. (2010). Natural and mining-related mercury in an orogenic greywacke terrane, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53(2-3), 103-114. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498784
  • MacKenzie, D., & Craw, D. (2010). Structural controls on hydrothermal gold mineralization in the White River area, Yukon. Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, 253-263.
  • MacKenzie, D., Craw, D., Cooley, M., & Fleming, A. (2010). Lithogeochemical localisation of disseminated gold in the White River area, Yukon, Canada.Mineralium Deposita, 45(7), 683-705. doi: 10.1007/s00126-010-0301-z

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