Dr Kevin Cassidy has over 20 years' experience in mineral exploration and applied research targeting a wide range of mineral deposit types including gold, copper-gold and base metal deposits. Dr Cassidy is internationally recognised as an expert in gold metallogeny in the Yilgarn of Western Australia and Superior province of Canada. He was principal research scientist with Geoscience Australia and made major contributions to the understanding of the metallogeny of Archean Terranes.