Heike has been involved in an array of projects in structurally complex terranes and deposit types, including copper, cobalt, silver, gold, antimony, manganese and iron ore deposits, across Southern, Central, West and North Africa.
Her project experience includes field- and mine-based geological and structural mapping, downhole structural logging, interpretation and 3D geomodelling of these structurally complex mineral deposits and their host rock packages within open pit and underground mining operations, and across greenfield and brownfield exploration projects.
Heike’s primary interest revolves around the structural controls that led to the formation of various types of economic copper deposits across different tectonic environments. She holds an MSc in Structural and Economic Geology from the University of Stellenbosch, where her study focused on deciphering the structural controls, 3D geometry and the evolution of copper mineralisation at the Frontier Mine, which forms part of the Zambian Copperbelt of the Lufilian Fold-and-Thrust Belt.
