In the spotlight: Oxygen Capital chairman Mark O’Dea
Q. Can you tell us more about your time spent in Australia with Monash University and your field work at Mt Isa? I lived there from 1992 to 1997 while I did my PhD. I chose to study the extensional history and architecture of the western part of the Mount Isa Inlier. It was very field-based so I ended up spending two to three months every year camped in the outback mapping and figuring out the structural history of some fairly big, complicated areas. That PhD work led to a post doctorate, which wrapped up in 1997. I decided at that time to step away from academia and get into industry and mineral exploration and that has been my focus…