Professor R. Grant Cawthorn
School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, 2050, South Africa
R. Grant Cawthorn is the Platinum Industry’s Professor of Igneous Petrology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His main research interests are the genesis of the Bushveld Complex and its chromite, platinum and vanadiferous magnetite deposits, and the Insizwa intrusion and its copper and nickel deposits. His main fields of specialisation are the origin of mafic igneous intrusive rocks and their mineral deposits.
He holds a BSc from the University of Durham and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
