• 2 year appointment - further employment may be offered upon successful completion of the project and subject to the securing of funds beyond the initial term of employment.
• Salary range: Level B $71,957 - $85,450 p.a. plus generous 17% superannuation
• Closing date: Friday 6 June 2008.

The CET is a new applied research centre that has been established with strong support from the minerals industry. The CET aims to be an international leader in exploration targeting.

In the role of Research Fellow, initial work involves detailed mapping and core logging of underground stopes and diamond core in order to determine the key control of high-grade gold mineralization in the Rosario-Bunawan gold district, Eastern Mindanao Ridge, Philippines including the > 500, 000 oz Co-O gold mine. The understanding of these controls will be used to constrain the processes that lead to the high-grade gold mineralization. Specific attention will be paid to the role of the major Philippine Rift Fault system, magmatism and the formation of magmatic stocks that may have contributed to magmatic hydrothermal fluids as a source for high-grade gold mineralization, but also may contain or control porphyry style Cu-Au mineralization. An integrated structural, hydrothermal alteration and fluid model for the Rosario-Bunawan district including the Co-O gold mine will be established which will then be used to formulate an exploration model that will be tested by delineating and drilling specific selected targets.

The project will be both field and laboratory based. The role requires a highly motivated geoscientist with a doctoral qualification or equivalent scholarly attainment in geoscience and the strong desire to deliver applied research to the minerals industry. The work will be undertaken with the Philippines based geological team of Medusa Mining Limited and a team of geoscientists from CET which represents one of the largest gold research groups in the world.

Application Details: Applicants are required to download and complete the application form. To discuss or clarify any aspects of the position please contact Associate Professor Steffen Hagemann on 6488 1517 or email shageman@cyllene.uwa.edu.au after viewing the position documentation. Additional information can be obtained from the CET's web site http://www.cet.uwa.edu.au/. Applicants must address the selection criteria. Written applications quoting the reference number, personal contact details, qualifications and experience, along with contact details of three referees should be sent to Director, Human Resources, The University of Western Australia, M350, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 or emailed to jobs@uwa.edu.au by the closing date.