Olivier Rabeau is a geologist specializing in three-dimensional (3-D) geological modeling and in mineral potential assessments at the bureau of geological exploration (Bureau de l’exploration géologique) at Quebec’s Department of Natural Resources (Ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec). He has published several government reports and scientific papers on numerical geology.

He holds a Baccalaureate degree in economic geology and a Master’s degree in geochemistry from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). He subsequently completed a Master’s of Science in geomatics at Université Laval. In 2003, he was hired as a research fellow at UQAT (Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue). He earned his Doctorate on the distribution of gold deposits from both the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (l'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, or INPL) and UQAM (l’Université du Québec à Montréal) in 2009. Since 2011, he was employed by Quebec’s Department of Natural Resources (Ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec).
This April, he moved 760 kilometres from Val-d’Or to Québec City and started a new phase in his career as the curator for the René-Bureau Museum of Geology, under the aegis of the department of geology and geological engineering at Laval University.

Mr. Rabeau's collaborators on the editing of his article are:

• Marc Legault, CÉGEP Abitibi-Témiscamingue
• Alain Cheilletz, Université de Lorraine
• Michel Jébrak, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Jean-Jacques Royer, CRPG
• Li Zhen Cheng, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue