About

S. K. Haldar (Swapan Kumar Haldar) has been a practicing veteran in the field of Mineral Exploration and metal mining for the past 4.5 decades. He received BSC (Hons) and MSC degree from Calcutta University and Doctorate from the Indian Institute of technology. The major part of his career from 1966 has been focused on base and noble metals exploration/mining with short stopover at ESSO Petroleum, Hindustan Copper Limited, and finally, Hindustan Zinc Limited, where he has undertaken various technical roles and managerial responsibilities. Since 2003 he has been Emeritus Professor with the Department of Applied Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata, and has taught mineral exploration to postgraduate students of the Applied Geology Department and often at University of Calcutta, and Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. He has been a consultant with international exploration entities, namely, Goldstream Mining NL/IMX Resources Ltd, Australia and Binani Industries Limited (BIL) Infratech Ltd, India. His profession has often required visits to mines and exploration camps of Australia-Tasmania, Canada, USA, Germany, Portugal, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Jordan, and Israel.

He is a life fellow of The Mining Geological and Metallurgical Institutes (MGMI) of India and Indian Geological Congress (IGC). Dr Haldar is a recipent of “Dr J. Coggin Brown Memorial (Gold Medal) for Geological Sciences” by MGMI. He has authored 40 technical papers and six books.

Dr. Haldar has a unique professional blend of mineral exploration, evaluation and mineral economics with an essence of classroom teaching of postgraduate students of three celebrated universities over the past decades.