Brought up in Rosyth, Fife, Buchan graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Mining from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 1969.
He earned a master's degree of Science in Mining Engineering from Queen's University in 1972.
[4] He has also donated £650,000 to help establish the Whitlock Energy Collaboration Centre at Carnegie College in Fife.
He remains executive chairman and director of Allied Nevada Gold Corp.,[6] a gold mining firm that operates the Hycroft mine and has a large number of prospective exploration claims in the state of Nevada.
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