Antony Benham
Regional Director,
The MSA Group
Cardiff,
United Kingdom
Antony is Director of MSA Mining Consulting UK Ltd and MSA Arabia and a Principal Exploration Geologist with >25 years of experience as a professional geologist including >18 years in the minerals and mining industry. He has wide ranging overseas experience in Africa, Middle East and Asia in the management and implementation of geological survey and mineral exploration technical assistance programmes, commissioned assignments, and training and technology transfer projects.
Antony has extensive experience on government-funded projects in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Republic of the Sudan, Uzbekistan, and the UAE. He has also worked for private clients on commissioned projects on a variety of mineral deposit styles (Orogenic Au, Cu-Zn-Au VMS, Magmatic Sulphide Pt-Pd-Ni, Sedimentary-hosted Cu deposits, pegmatite deposits etc) in countries including Kazakhstan, Russia, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Armenia, Rwanda, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
He previously led development aid-funded and national government-funded work in central Asia and east Africa, in particular Afghanistan and Sudan. In Afghanistan, Antony was the Project Manager for three projects building capacity at the Afghanistan Geological Survey and Ministry of Mines and Petroleum. Whilst in Sudan he was Project Manager for three projects working with the Ministry of Minerals and the Geological Research Authority of The Sudan to restructure and manage geodata in the country.
Antony started his career as an Exploration and Mining Geologist in South Africa where he worked on a variety of gold mines on the West Witwatersrand before moving to precious metal exploration in the eastern Bushveld, and then as a geologist at an underground platinum mine.
He has an interest in precious metal mineralisation, particularly magmatic PGM deposits, as well as Au and base metal deposits.
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