Andrew Gunn’s Biography
- 2012: Principal Economic Geologist
- 2008 – 2012: BGS Team Leader Minerals Sustainability
- 1978 – 2008: Economic Geologist/Principal Economic Geologist at BGS
- 1975 – 1977: Exploration Geologist, Zambia
- 1973 – 1974: MSc Geochemistry, University of Oxford
- 1970 – 1973: BA Honours Geology, University of Oxford
Research interests
- ongoing: Processes responsible for the formation of metallic mineral deposits (PGE, gold, base metals, critical metals).
- ongoing: Development of new methods for mineral exploration
- ongoing: Security of minerals supply to UK and EU. Criticality assessment for mineral raw materials
Current projects and collaborations
- ongoing: Development of a minerals intelligence network for Europe (‘Minerals4EU’ project funded by the EC). BGS in collaboration with 30 European partners
- 2011: BGS-Camborne School of Mines Critical Metals Alliance
- 2011 – 2014: Editor of ‘Critical Metals Handbook’ published in 2014 by Wiley in conjunction with BGS and AGU
- 2011 – 2013: NERC knowledge exchange project ‘ Critical minerals: science for a secure supply’
- 2011 – 2015: Supervision of PhD research at Camborne School of Mines related to heavy rare-earth enrichment in carbonatites
- 2010: Metallogenic studies related to the genesis of critical metal deposits, including rare earths, tantalum and niobium.
Skills
- ongoing: Evaluation of mineral potential, at regional and local scales
- ongoing: Acquisition and evaluation of geochemical data for use in mineral exploration
- ongoing: Development and application of mineral deposit models for use in mineral exploration
- ongoing: Exploration technology, and related geochemical methods
- ongoing: Mineral resource evaluation
Professional associations
- Member Association of Applied Geochemists
- Member Mineral Deposits Studies Group of the Geological Society of London
- Member Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
- Member Society of Economic Geologists
Boards and commitees
- 2009: UK representative on EC expert working group ‘Defining critical raw materials’
- 2009: BGS representative on the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Mineral Resources
- 2010: Geological Society of London Expert Group responsible for its Rare Earth Element Briefing Note
- 2010: NATO Advisor on raw materials security of supply
- 2011: NERC Expert Group on Minerals Security of Supply