Murray Hitzman
Description Murray W. Hitzman, Geologist; Professor of Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines since June 1996 and Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, August 2000 to August 2007. Director Since January 4, 2006. Dr. Hitzman received BA degrees in Earth Science and Anthropology from Dartmouth College in 1976, an MS in geology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1983. Dr Hitzman began work in the mining industry with Anaconda in 1976 at the Yerington porphyry copper mine in Nevada and subsequently worked for Anaconda in Alaska from 1977 through 1982. From 1982 through 1993, Dr. Hitzman worked throughout the world for Chevron Resources Company and initiated and managed base and precious metal exploration projects in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Spain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Tanzania, Canada, and the United States. In 1990 he discovered the Lisheen zinc-lead-silver deposit in Ireland. From 1990 through 1993, Dr. Hitzman was manager of the Lisheen project, guiding it through exploration and pre-feasibility, including engineering and environmental studies. In 1993, Dr. Hitzman was named Geological Society of America Congressional Fellow and served from September, 1993 to August, 1994, on the staff of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (D - CT) working on natural resource and environmental issues. Dr. Hitzman was named Executive Branch Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement for Science/Sloan Foundation during 1994. As the Executive Branch Fellow he served as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from September, 1994 through March, 1996 specializing in natural resource, environmental, and geoscience issues. In June, 1996, Dr. Hitzman became the Charles F. Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines, and in 2000 was named Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (he stepped down as such in August, 2007). Mr. Hitzman has been a director of a number of public companies similar to Cardero and, in such roles, he has had experience with the review and understanding of the accounting principles relevant to the financial statements of public natural resource companies. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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