General Assembly & Evening Lecture: U exploration, resources and production: a global review
Speaker
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Mark J. Mihalasky
Mark J. Mihalasky is a Uranium Resources Specialist with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. He received a B.S. in Geology in 1984 from Stockton State College, a M.S. in 1988 from Eastern Washington University in Geology, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences in 1999 from the University of Ottawa. He has worked as an exploration geologist and GIS consultant, Assistant Professor of Earth and Marine Geology and Coastal Research Center Director of Research at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, a geospatial analyst and resource assessment scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and since joining the IAEA in 2020, has been responsible for publications and database development related to global and country-level uranium exploration, resources, and production, including the Joint OECD-NEA / IAEA “Red Book” and the UDEPO and ThDEPO databases. He has experience in economic geology, mineral and interdisciplinary natural resource assessment, and quantitative analysis and modeling of geospatial data. He has been involved with metallic mineral resource assessments (gold, silver, copper, uranium, REE) in Nevada, Texas, China, Afghanistan, and western Asia (eastern Russia, Mongolia, northern China, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Uzbekistan), lithium resources in central South America, diamond resources in Mali and Central African Republic, and interdisciplinary natural resource assessments in Madagascar, Gabon, and the United States.