Danae Voormeij
Registered Professional Gold & Copper Exploration Geologist
Experienced in Tropical Laterite Terrains
Danae Voormeij, BSc (Honours), MSc, PGeo is a Dutch born-Canadian registered professional geoscientist with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC) and a Qualified Person (QP) under Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM) NI 43-101 Standards.
She has more than two decades of international exploration experience, exploring for gold and copper in tropical laterite terrain.
Her work has taken her to more than 30 countries — from running ground magnetic surveys in the Gobi Desert with Ivanhoe Mines at Oyu Tolgoi in 2001, to Liberia, West Africa, where she led the team to the discovery of Touzon, a grassroots discovery of 2.4 million ounces of gold.
Danae is a director with Miata Metals with large gold exploration projects in Suriname. Danae is also director and chief geologist for Sky Gold Corp, with copper-gold projects in Walker Lane, Nevada.
Ms Voormeij is a Qualified Person (QP), Competent Person, and she is qualified to assess gold projects.
Gold Exploration in Tropical Landscapes
- The Book
Danae Voormeij is the author of Gold Exploration in Tropical Landscapes, a practical field-based guide to gold exploration in laterite and deeply weathered tropical environments.
It covers every part of the tropical laterite regolith, from top A soil, to B laterite soil, to mottled zone, then saprolite and finally saprock. As well duricrust, nodules and pisoliths.
The book also covers the different styles of gold workings by artisanal and small-scale gold miners.
Gold Exploration in Tropical Landscapes has been downloaded for free on researchgate.net more than 10,000 times by geologists, students, and exploration professionals worldwide.
