Suriname Revisited: Economic Potential of its Mineral Resources

Marco Keersemaker MBA (1962) graduated from the Technical University of Delft with a degree in Mining Engineering in 1988. After a year working at an underground copper/gold mine in Australia, he joined Billiton and moved to Suriname, where he worked in bauxite mine operations. He obtained his MBA from Rotterdam University in 1994 and moved to Ghana, where he worked at gold mines for Ashanti (now AngloGold Ashanti). From 2000 to 2004, he worked at a Kenyan ruby quarry, a manganese mine in Ghana, and on a dredging project in Sri Lanka. In 2004, Marco moved back to Suriname, where he spent five years with BHP Billiton as manager of the Lelydorp mine and mine manager for the Bakhuis project. Following the departure of BHP Billiton, he was transferred to Guinea in West Africa to work on bauxite and iron ore projects. When his employer pulled out of Guinea, Marco left the company and started his own consulting company, while also working as a lecturer at Delft University.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Geology of Suriname.- Chapter 3. A Brief History of Exploration Work.- Chapter 4. Modeling Potential: Minimal Economic Resource Parameters.- Chapter 5. Gold.- Chapter 6. Bauxite.- Chapter 7. Base metals.- Chapter 8. Other Metallic Minerals.- Chapter 9. Critical Raw Materials.- Chapter 10. Other Minerals.- Chapter 11. Looking ahead.