Job Description
One month you're logging vacuum drill holes through high-purity silica sand dunes in Far North Queensland — domaining on colour, particle size and iron content, modelling the water table beneath the dunes. The next you're back in the office, working alongside a senior geologist on the Leapfrog model of a limestone deposit that has to feed a cement kiln, inside a narrow chemical window, for the next forty years. Then a hard rock quarry hemmed in by growing suburbs, where the value of an irreplaceable reserve lives or dies on how well the geology is understood.
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That's a normal quarter here.
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Our clients run quarries, cement operations and industrial minerals sites — deposits measured in decades, permitted last century, and impossible to replace. Everything downstream — the resource, the designs, the schedules, the reserves — is built on the geology. Log it well and model it honestly, and you extend the life of an asset that a business is built on. These seemingly easy commodities have unique challenges of their own.
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That is the work. It rewards geologists who want their mapping and logging to become the model, and the model to become the mine plan — and who measure success by the practical value added on the ground, not the reports filed.
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Who you'd be working for
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We are the trusted technical advisor to operators across Australia and New Zealand — from the largest construction materials and cement producers in the industry to family-owned quarry groups and councils where we effectively are their technical department: their surveyor, their geologist, their geotechnical engineer,



their mine planner and scheduling engineer.
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Eltirus is Brisbane-based and a Deswik and Seequent partner. Our first rule of business is "we work with people we like and can help", and we're a successful, growing team who are flexible, enjoy working together and don't take ourselves too seriously.
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The role
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You'll join our geology team, working with — and mentored by — senior geologists and Competent Persons who sign off on JORC work every month.
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The rhythm of the work — and why it's different:
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Long-term site stewardship, not one-off studies. For many clients we run the full annual cycle — drill programme, geological model update, resource assessment — on the same sites, year after year. Your logging from this season becomes the model you refine next season.
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Field programmes across a genuinely varied portfolio — geological mapping, drill programmes, and chip and core logging, from coastal dune sands to basalt quarries to greenfields prospects.
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A structured pathway into the office-based side of the craft: graphical logs and drilling data management first, then geological modelling in Leapfrog Geo with training and mentoring, then contributing to resource assessments under the JORC Code — a real pathway to Competent Person status.
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Working alongside geotechnical engineers, mining engineers and surveyors, so you see where your geology goes and what it has to hold up.
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Drone surveys (if you'd like to learn!)
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The honest version of the conditions:
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Brisbane-based, hybrid, with genuine flexibility once you're through orientation and training — we care what you deliver, not when you were at a desk.
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Site travel for field programmes is usually no more than about two weeks per quarter.
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Our reporting standard, data management and file naming discipline will surprise you at first. That's the appeal. If it isn't, this isn't the right role.
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What we need
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Sound mapping, chip and core logging skills — this is the foundation the role is built on.
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Solid exploration and/or mine geology experience, with the ability to run a field programme.
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A degree in geology or a closely related discipline.
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Strong report writing and data management habits, and the discipline to work within them.
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A genuine appetite to learn modelling and resource assessment skills.
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Highly regarded
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Exposure to Leapfrog Geo or other implicit modelling packages.
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Experience in industrial minerals, sand, aggregates or quarrying commodities.
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Familiarity with the JORC Code and resource reporting.
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Drone piloting experience or a remote pilot licence.
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No industrial minerals experience? That's fine — we provide the training, and the geology is more interesting than it looks from outside.
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📌 Exploration Geologist (Queensland)
🏢 Eltirus
📍 Queensland