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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

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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
  • Gemma Kerr - Geochemical and mineralogical controls on mine discharge water composition, Macraes mine, Otago and Globe progress mine, Reefton

MSc

BSc(Hons)

  • Sam Stephens - Combining geophysical data with gold exploration and mineralisation in the Old Man Range, Otago.

Recent Students

  • James Stewart (PGDipSci -2012) Characterisation of gold bearing quartz veins at the historic Garibaldi gold fields, Central Otago, New Zealand. 
  • 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

  • Craw, D., Mitchell, M., McCann, R., & Reay, A. (2013). Compositional variations and morphological evolution in platinum beach placers, southern New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita, 48(1), 81-97. doi: 10.1007/s00126-012-0417-4
  • Craw, D., Upton, P., Horton, T., & Williams, J. (2013). Migration of hydrothermal systems in an evolving collisional orogen, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita, 48(2), 233-248. doi: 10.1007/s00126-012-0421-8
  • Druzbicka, J., & Craw, D. (2013). Evolving metalloid signatures in waters draining from a mined orogenic gold deposit, New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry, 31, 251-264. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.01.011
  • Druzbicka, J., & Craw, D. (2013). Turbidity development and dissipation in paleoplacer gold deposits, southern New Zealand. Environmental Earth Sciences, 68(6), 1575-1589. doi: 10.1007/s12665-012-1851-4
  • MacKenzie, D., Craw, D., Brodie, C., & Fleming, A. (2013). Foliation development and hydrothermal gold emplacement in metagabbroic rocks, central Yukon, Canada. Yukon Exploration & Geology 2012 , 47-64.
  • Moore, J., Jacobson, A. D., Holmden, C., & Craw, D. (2013). Tracking the relationship between mountain uplift, silicate weathering, and long-term CO2 consumption with Ca isotopes: Southern Alps, New Zealand. Chemical Geology, 341, 110-127. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.01.005
  • Waters, J. M., Trewick, S. A., Paterson, A. M., Spencer, H. G., Kennedy, M., Craw, D., Burridge, C. P., Wallis, G. P. (2013). Biogeography off the tracks. Systematic Biology, 494-498. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syt013
  • Ashley, P., Craw, D., MacKenzie, D., Rombouts, M., & Reay, A. (2012). Mafic and ultramafic rocks, and platinum mineralisation potential, in the Longwood Range, Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 55(1), 3-19. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2011.623302
  • Burridge, C. P., McDowall, R. M., Craw, D., Wilson, M. V. H., & Waters, J. M. (2012). Marine dispersal as a pre-requisite for Gondwanan vicariance among elements of the galaxiid fish fauna. Journal of Biogeography, 39(2), 306-321. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02600.x
  • Craw, D., Druzbicka, J., Rufaut, C., & Waters, J. (2012). Geological controls on paleo-environmental change in a tectonic rain shadow, southern New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.11.024
  • Craw, D., Upton, P., Walcott, R., Burridge, C., & Waters, J. (2012). Tectonic controls on the evolution of the Clutha River catchment, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 55(4), 345-359. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2012.709184
  • Henne, A., & Craw, D. (2012). Synmetamorphic carbon mobility and graphite enrichment in metaturbidites as a precursor to orogenic gold mineralisation, Otago Schist, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita, 47(7), 781-797.doi: 10.1007/s00126-012-0399-2
  • Large, R., Thomas, H., Craw, D., Henne, A., & Henderson, S. (2012). Diagenetic pyrite as a source for metals in orogenic gold deposits, Otago Schist, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 55(2), 137-149. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2012.682282
  • MacKenzie, D., & Craw, D. (2012). Contrasting structural settings of mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Yukon-Tanana terrane. Yukon Exploration & Geology 2011, 115-127.

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