A Brief History of Rod Hill

Born in the middle of Epping Forest, near London, England. Attended Wanstead High School, London. B.Sc. (Hons.) Geology, University of Sheffield (1971). M.Sc. Geology, University of Calgary (1975) – thesis on Metamorphism and Structure in part of the Shuswap complex, Revelstoke, BC.

Coal Geologist, Consolidation Coal Co. of Canada, Red Deer, Alberta for two summers, 1975 & 1976, looking at coal deposits in the Foothills of Alberta and SE BC. Project Geologist, Cyprus Anvil Mining Corp. two years 1977-78, looking for coal, lead and zinc in the Yukon and coal in southern B.C. After that I spent a year looking for coal in northern BC, NWT and Yukon for Utah Mines and another year looking for molybdenum and tungsten in southern BC for Newmont.

In 1980 I joined the YTG Department of Tourism & Economic Development as a mineral economist. Some successes I have worked on include developing and implementing the original Prospectors’ Assistance Program and Exploration Incentives Program (since combined into YMIP), the Regional Resource Roads Program (since cancelled), the Canada/Yukon Geoscience Office, and the mineral potential assessment program.

Now mainly responsible for day-to-day operations management of the Yukon Geological Survey.