Exploration - Principal Exploration Geochemist

Overview

Would you like to build your career at the intersection of geology, data, and technology within a world-class mining organization? We have an exciting opportunity for you!

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for all geochemical activities across North America, including survey design, sampling strategies, QA/QC frameworks, data management, interpretation, and integration.
• Guide and support exploration teams in the design and execution of geochemical programs across diverse environments and deposit styles (e.g. Carlin-type, orogenic, epithermal, porphyry gold/copper, and intrusion related systems) across Canada, USA, and Dominican Republic.
• Ensure exploration teams collect high-quality geochemical data and apply best-practice QA/QC protocols, including periodic review and updating written sampling procedures across the region.
• Ensure external, legacy, and newly acquired geochemical datasets are rigorously validated, quality-controlled, and integrated in accordance with regional and corporate standards prior to interpretation.
• Drive and facilitate multi-element geochemical data interpretation, 2D, 3D and 4D geochemical modelling (e.g. lithological, alteration, and mineralization types), and integration of geochemical layers into GIS and geological (leapfrog) models.
• Integrate geochemistry into regional and project-scale geological interpretations, and other geoscience datasets (e.g. SWIR mineralogy, geophysics, remote sensing, petrography, etc.), enhancing targeting under cover, vectoring toward mineralization, and overall discovery effectiveness.
• Support advanced exploration and near-mine programs through ore characterization, alteration studies, and geochronology in collaboration with all team members.
• Actively seek, evaluate, and implement new geochemical techniques, technologies, and data-leveraging approaches, drawing on both internal initiatives and external research programs.
• Monitor and translate outcomes from external geochemical research projects into practical applications for North American greenfield and brownfield programs.
• Provide guidance on geochemical database structure, storage, governance, and usage ensuring data integrity and long-term usability.
• Ensure appropriate documentation and auditing of field sampling techniques, including QA/QC protocols, sample media, sampling methods, and chain-of-custody procedures; conduct field-based training and audits as required.
• Collaborate closely with the broader North America Exploration team to ensure geochemical results are always interpreted within a sound geological context.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with safety, health, environmental, and quality policies and procedures, with clear recognition and management of risks inherent to exploration and field operations.
• Preform other duties as required

• Bachelor of Science in Geology or Geochemistry or equivalent; a thesis-based Master’s or PhD degree in Geology or Geochemistry is strongly preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in applied geochemistry, preferably within mineral exploration, with demonstrated contribution to gold and/or copper discovery or value creation preferred
• Strong understanding of multiple gold and copper deposit types (Carlin-type, orogenic, epithermal, porphyry, and intrusion-related systems in particular), mineralization models, and the geochemical expression of geological processes relevant to exploration preferred
• Strong understanding of surficial environments and impacts on geochemical sampling and interpretation that are common across North America (e.g. boreal forest, desert, glacial deposits, swamps, etc.). Experience with exploration through cover including the generation and utilization of regolith maps preferred
• Demonstrated experience in the validation, integration, interpretation, and modelling of large, multi-disciplinary geochemical datasets, ensuring data quality and geological coherence preferred
• Proven capability in geochemical data analysis and interpretation tools (e.g. R, ioGAS or equivalent), GIS platforms (ArcGIS, QGIS), and 3D modelling software (e.g. Leapfrog).
• Proficiency…