Simon Beams

Dr Beams has been a Geologist since 1975. For the past 35 years he has been Managing Director and Principal Geologist of Terra Search Pty Ltd where he has been directly involved in many mineral exploration and evaluation programs across Northern Australia, leading to mineral discoveries and some mines, primarily base metals and gold but including uranium, phosphate, magnetite & oil shale amongst others. Dr Beams has been a member of the Advisory Board to the Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU) at James Cook University, Townsville for over two decades. He is also a Member of the Queensland Exploration Committee for AMEC (Association of Mining and Exploration Companies) one of the Peak Industry Exploration Groups. Dr Beams has produced several key publications in the areas of mineral deposit geology and geochemistry, exploration data management, regolith relations, petrology and granite genesis and regional geology of North Queensland.