Name:   Dr. Hooshang Asadi  Haroni
Date & place of birth: 23 July 1967, near  Isfahan, Iran
Marital status: Married
Nationality: Iranian

Correspondence address: Mining Faculty, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan,  Iran
E-mail address: نشانی ایمیل جهت جلوگیری از رباتهای هرزنامه محافظت شده اند، جهت مشاهده آنها شما نیاز به فعال ساختن جاوا اسكریپت دارید    or    نشانی ایمیل جهت جلوگیری از رباتهای هرزنامه محافظت شده اند، جهت مشاهده آنها شما نیاز به فعال ساختن جاوا اسكریپت دارید
Current position:   General Manager of DORSA  Pardazeh company and Associate Professor at Mining Engineering Faculty, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Languages:

Education:
1987-1991                B.Sc. in Geology, National Iranian University, Tehran, Iran
1993-1995                M. Sc. in Mineral Exploration, ITC, Netherlands
1996-2000             PhD in Mineral Exploration in Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Work  Experiences:
2000-2003:     Staff member (Exploration Geologist) of the Rio Tinto Mining & Exploration Limited, Iran Branch
2003-2009:       Assistant Professor at the Mining Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran and the same time General Manager of Dorsa Engineering Limited, Iran based company and Dalli Cu-Au project Manager (2005-2009).

Summary:
I completed my high school in Natural Science in Isfahan and in Tehran in the period of 1981 to 1985. In 1986, I joined the National University of Iran in Tehran, where I obtained a B.Sc. in Geology in 1991. In 1993, I was awarded a scholarship from the Iranian Ministry of Higher Education to study abroad. I started my post graduate studies in August 1993 at ITC (International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences) in the Netherlands and subsequently obtained a Master degree in Mineral Exploration in 1995. The title of my Master research was “Integrated Analysis of Geo-Science Datasets for Gold Exploration in the Takab Shahin-Dez quadrangle, NW Iran”.

I began my PhD research at Delft University of Technology with cooperation with ITC in Netherlands in 1995. I obtained my PhD degree in 1999. The title of my PhD research was “The Zarshuran Gold Deposit Model Applied in a mineral Exploration GIS in Iran”. During my PhD research a genetic model  and a spatial model of mineralization were developed for the Zarshuran gold deposit (sediment hosted Carlin-like gold deposit) and these models were used to deduce Deposit Recognition Criteria (DRC) for regional mineral exploration using GIS and remote sensing tools. Subsequently, based on these DRCs and some other criteria extracted from a new geodynamic model proposed for the Zagrose Orogenic belt of Iran and field work, a predictive GIS model was developed for potential mapping of gold and base metal mineralization in Takab area of NW Iran. At the end of PhD research I Studied at ITC as Post Doctorate for a few months, working on the application of the web based GIS and Remote techniques in Mineral exploration.
I worked as exploration geologist for Rio Tinto Mining & Exploration limited based in London, Bristol and Tehran from 2000-2003. I worked for Rio Tinto in Iran as the manager of country scale-GIS exploration database, regional field geologist and drilling supervisor and exploration geologist at world class Sari Gunay gold deposit.

In September 2003, I joined the Mining Faculty of Isfahan University of Technology as Assistant professor, which is my current position. In Jun 2004, I established   a small company in Isfahan called DORSA Engineering limited working in the fields of mineral exploration, GIS and remote sensing. I discovered two porphyry copper prospects (Dalli Cu-Au and Kahang Cu-Mo), which two phases of drilling have been carried out at both of them. Our JV partner at Dalli is Persian Gold company. At Dorsa, I have managed several detailed exploration projects, mostly on detailed gold and base metal exploration, target generation and definition of gold, based metals, titanium and none metallic mineral using Remote Sensing, GIS and follow up field work.

ISI JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. Asadi, H.H., Voncken, J.H.L. and Hale, M. (1999). Invisible gold at Zarshuran, Iran. Economic Geology, 94:1367-1374.
2. Asadi H.H., J. H. L. Voncken, R.A. Kuhnel and M.Hale ( 2000). Petrography , mineralogy and geochemistry of the Zarshuran gold deposit and implications for ore genesis . Mineralium Deposita , Springer , Issue 7 , 35:672-682
3. Asadi H.H. and Hale M. ( 2001 ) . A predictive GIS model for potential mapping of gold and base metal mineralization in Takab area, Iran. Journal of Computers and Geosciences, Elsvier, 27:901-912.
4. Asadi H.H., Voncken, J.H.L. and Hale , M (2001) . Sulphosalts at the Zarshuran Carlin-like hold deposit, NW Iran, implications for gold mineralization. Transaction of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B (Applied Earth Sciences), 110:B24-B32.
5. F.  RASTMANESH , F. MOORE, H. ASADI HARONI. S. MODABBER (2008). Exploration alteration mapping using combined selective principal component analysis and matched filter processing in Takab area, NW Iran. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23 pp.
6. Fezzeh Ayati, Fuat Yavuz, Mosa Noghreyan and Hooshang Asadi Haroni (2008) . Chemical characteristics and composition of igneous and hydrothermal biotite from the Dalli porphyry copper deposit Arak, Central Iran. Mineralogy Petrology Journal.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

1. Asadi. H. H., Carranxa, E. J. M. And Hale, H. (1998) . GIS and Remote Sensing for Epithermal Gold Exploration in the Northwest Iran. Proceedings of Intermational Conference on GIS for Earth Science Applications, Ljublijana, Slovenia, pp 57-73.
2. Asadi, H. H., Carranza, E. J .M. and Hale, H. (1998). Assessment of Epithermal Mineralization in Northwest Iran Using GIS. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographic Information System, Cartographic Center of Iran, Tehran, pp. 29-47.
3. Asadi H.H. and Hale M. (1999) . Integrated Analysis of Aeromagnetic, Landsat TM and Mineral Occurrence Data for Epithermal Gold Exploration in Northwest Iran. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, Vol :1, pp. 16-24.
4. Asadi H.H. and Hale M.(1999). A predictive GIS model for potential mapping of gold and base metal mineralization in Takab area, Iran. Presented at the 4th International Conterence on Geocomputation, Mary Washington College, Frederickburg, Virginla, USA,25-28 July 1999 ( CD Roms and Web: http://WWW.geovista. Psu.edu/geocomp/geocomp99/Gc99/012/gc 012.htm).
5. Asadi H.H. and Hale M.(1999). Magmatic contribution to the Carlin-type gold deposit at Zarshuran, Iran. Proceedings of the join SGA-LAGOD Conference at the Imperial college of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, Vol:1, pp 463-466.
6. Asadi H. H., Sides E. and . Ngozi K (2000a). Using 2D GIS to assist 3D modeling of the Zarshuran, NW Iran . Proceeding of ISPRS Conference in Amsteranm, Paper TP VII-04-22 , CD ROM .
7. Asadi H. H., H. Erren and A.B. Westerh (2000b) . Integrated analysis of remote sensing, geological and mineral occurrence data for the assessment of a subduction setting along the Zagros Orogenic Belt of Iran. Proceeding of ISPRS Conference in Amsterdam Paper TP VII-04-22 , CD ROM .
8. Asadi H. H. and M Hale (2000). Application of Zarshuran Carlin-like deposit model for gold exploration GIS in NW Iran, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 6-8 November 2000 (8 pp.)
9. Asadi H.H., J. H. L. Voncken and M. Hale (2000). Gold mineralization at Zarshuran, NW Iran ( MSF Mini-Symposium, Espoo Finland, Modern Approaches to Ore and Environmental Mineralogy, pp. 1-2)
10. Asadi H.H. (2004), Applications of GIS & RS in locating target areas for mineral exploration  in Qazvin province of Iran, 9th Symposium of Geological Society of Iran. Pp. 441-450. Asad H. H. and Ayati F. (2007). Geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys arc and associated porphyry copper mineralization in Iran. Proceedings  of the 9th Beinnal Meeting of the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Dublin, Ireland, 20th-23rd August 2007, pp. 121-124.