Rate My Professor Doug MacKenzie

Dr Doug MacKenzie serves as a Professional Practice Fellow in the Department of Geology at the University of Otago. He holds a BSc from the University of Toronto, an MSc and PhD from the University of Otago, and professional credentials as a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM) with Certified Professional Geologist status (CP(Geo)).

His career encompasses extensive industry experience and academic contributions. He began as a Junior Exploration Geologist at Rio Algom in Toronto in 1985, followed by Junior Mapping Geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in 1986, Exploration Geologist at Canhorn Mining Corporation from 1987 to 1988 and at Freeport Indonesia from 1992 to 1994, Senior Exploration Geologist at Freeport-McMoRan in Baja California, Mexico in 1994, and Senior Mine-Exploration Manager at Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg mine from 1995 to 1998. Since 1998, he has held positions as Research Fellow and Professional Practice Fellow at the University of Otago, where he teaches applied structure and exploration geology and supervises postgraduate students on theses related to gold mineralization and structural controls.

MacKenzie's research specializations center on economic geology, including orogenic gold deposits, vein gold systems, orogenic fluid flow and gold mineralisation, structure and mineralisation in metamorphic belts, structural controls on mineralisation, geophysical techniques applied to mineral exploration, and mineralisation in Otago and Westland regions. Key publications include the book 'Macraes Orogenic Gold Deposit (New Zealand): Origin and Development of a World Class Gold Mine' co-authored with Dave Craw (Springer, 2016); 'Contrasting coeval paragenesis of gold and scheelite in an orogenic hydrothermal system, Macraes Mine, New Zealand' (Ore Geology Reviews, 2017); 'Lithologically controlled invisible gold, Yukon, Canada' (Mineralium Deposita, 2015); 'Lithogeochemical localisation of disseminated gold in the White River area, Yukon, Canada' (Mineralium Deposita, 2010); and 'Structural controls on orogenic gold mineralisation in the Klondike goldfield, Canada' (Mineralium Deposita, 2008).