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Assoc/Prof Khin Zaw
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BSc (RangoonU), MSc (Queen's), PhD (UTas)
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Associate Professor |
| Contact Details |
| Telephone: +61 3 6226 2787 |
| Fax: +61 3 6226 7662 |
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Hobart Campus, Maths-Physics Building
, 208
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| Email: Khin.Zaw@utas.edu.au |
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Career Summary
Khin Zaw received a BSc from Yangon University, Myanmar, in 1968, FGA Diploma (Fellowships of Gemmological Association of Great Britain) in 1969, MSc (Economic Geology) from Queen’s University, Canada in 1976 and PhD from University of Tasmania in 1990. He is also a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has over 35 years experience working on genetic aspects of mineral deposits in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and SE Asia, and has published a considerable number of papers relating to ore genesis and mineral exploration in Australasian region. He is actively linked with counterpart geologists from SE Asia region. He is currently leading an ARC Linkage Project on the ‘Geochronology and Metallogenesis of Loei fold belt in Thailand and Laos’, and looking forward to work with culturally adaptable, high-calibre PhD students to study little-known major Pb-Zn and Cu-Au ore deposits in enchanting SE Asian countries.
Research Interests
Khin Zaw undertakes research on a variety of ore deposit styles from skarn, VHMS, vein-type W-Sn, to porphyry related skarn/epithermal deposits. His PhD research was to understand the skarn system overprinted on the Rosebery VHMS deposit. Khin Zaw maintains a balance of his applied industry-funded research and basic ARC funded fundamental research on ore deposits. He is also a recognised geoscientist on the application of fluid inclusion and isotopic research to the study of ore fluids chemistry.
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