David Broughton

Dr. David Broughton is world renowned expert in in sediment-hosted copper deposits. David has been instrumental in several significant discoveries, including Kamoa and Platreef. Early in his career, David worked primarily in the Abitibi greenstone belt. In 1997, he became Geologist and Project Manager for Cyprus Amax’s Kansanshi pre-feasibility project, which became Zambia’s largest producing copper mine, and he later worked as a part of the AMIRA p544 team that investigated mineralization controls in the Zambian Copperbelt. In 2008, David became Head of Exploration at Ivanhoe, and there he was co-leader of the Kamoa Discovery team that was the 2015 recipient of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) prestigious Thayer Lindsley Award for International Mineral Discovery, and co-recipient of AME BC’s 2016 Colin Spence Award for Excellence in Mineral Exploration, for the discovery of the Platreef deposit. He was recently awarded the Des Pretorius Memorial Award from the Geological Society of South Africa for lifetime achievement in economic geology.

Dr. Broughton received a BSc. (Hons) and a MSc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Association of Canada, and the Geological Society of South Africa.