Heike is a dedicated applied structural and economic geologist with expertise in structural controls on the formation of economic mineral deposits across diverse tectonic environments. Heike excels in applying multidisciplinary approaches to enhance geological interpretations and support project development.
Her experience spans structurally complex terranes and deposit types, including copper, cobalt, silver, gold, antimony, manganese, and iron ore deposits. Heike has worked on open pit and underground mining operations, and greenfield and brownfield exploration projects across Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Middle East.
Heike’s technical skill set includes advanced 3D geomodelling, structural core logging, GIS compilations, and remote sensing interpretation, and has been integral to numerous projects leveraging her expertise in geophysical and remote sensing dataset interpretation. She is an expert user in Leapfrog Geo and familiar with the use of multiple remote sensing and 3D software packages, including ArcGIS, QGIS and Micromine.
Heike has a Master of Science (cum laude) in Structural and Economic Geology from Stellenbosch University that she completed in 2 years while working full-time as a consultant.
