Professor Ken Collerson is a principal of KDC Consulting, R&D director of Transition Resources, and an Emeritus Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland.
Prior to his appointment as head of earth sciences at UQ, Dr Collerson was a Professor of Geochemistry at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Dr Collerson is an internationally recognised geoscientist whose research has provided a basis for predictive mineral system exploration. He is a specialist in exploration for technology metals, battery metals, PGEs and
alkaline Au-Cu porphyry systems. His use of spinifex biogeochemistry to explore under cover in western Queensland resulted in the discovery of a 2000 km long plume generated Silurian to Devonian age mineral province (named the Diamantina Province) that extends from the Macquarie Arc in NSW to the Merlin kimberlite field in the Northern Territory.
