Technical Team

Dr. Walter Peredery, P.Geo., Consulting Geologist

Dr. Walter Peredery has over 42 years of experience in the exploration and study of mineral deposits, specializing in nickel. From 1965-1997, Dr. Peredery worked for Inco, mainly in the Sudbury Basin, the Duluth Complex in Minnesota, and the Thompson Nickel Belt. Dr. Peredery contributed personally to the discovery of the Ospwagan Lake Deposit (65Mt), the Bay Deposit (25Mt), and the Thompson Deep Deposit (10Mt), all in the Thompson Nickel Belt in Manitoba. While with Inco, Walter participated in nickel exploration in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, the Yukon, Greenland, Turkey, and Botswana. Dr. Peredery has also examined and studied various deposits worldwide, including Voisey’s Bay, the Udokan sedimentary copper deposit and the Sukhoy Log deposit in Siberia, the Norilsk and Pechanga mining camps in Russia, and nickel deposits in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Brazil. Since retiring from Inco in 1997, Walter has worked as an independent consulting geologist, studying the Taiga sedimentary Ni-Cu-Co-Zn-Pb-Ba-Mo-Li-PGE deposit in the Yukon, one of the world’s largest Proterozoic ultramafic intrusions in Paraguay, and the Mouchalagane Ni-Cu-PGE deposit near the Manicouagan structure in Quebec.

Dr. Peredery was educated in Canada, receiving his B.Sc. (1964) and M.Sc. (1966) from McGill University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (1972). He has compiled a compendium on various mineral deposits in Kazakhstan, participated in a classification of the world’s nickel deposits that was published in Canadian Mineralogist, acted as the secretary of studies on the world’s nickel deposits headed up by Dr. A.J. Naldrett, and has published a number of research papers on the geology of Sudbury and the Thompson Belt.

Dr. Bahman Bayat, Consultant Geophysicist

Dr. Bahman Bayat has over 19 years of experience in the exploration and study of mineral deposits in Iran, Oman, Australia and Canada. From 1988 to 1992, Dr. Bayat worked for Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), conducting regional-scale geological and geophysical studies and participating in base metal and gold exploration programs. From 1992 to 2002, Bahman was an academic member of the Department of Geology in the University of Zanjan, teaching undergraduate geology and geophysics and conducting research projects for mining companies.  Bahman founded a junior mineral exploration consulting firm, Zamin Kavosh Gostar, in 1994 and acted as the head manager of the firm until 2002, when he left Iran to pursue his goals in Australia. 

 Dr. Bayat was educated in Iran and Australia, receiving his B.Sc. (1988) in Geology from the University of Tabriz, M.Sc. (1992) in Geophysics from the University of Tehran, and PhD (2006) in Exploration Geophysics from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia.  Dr. Bayat has published a number of research papers on the geology and geophysics of mineral deposits in Iran and Australia.