2024 Conference Program
Ice Breaker Event
Wednesday 4th September 2024
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Commercial Club – Townsend Room |
| 7:00 - 10:00pm | Rutherglen Wine Degustation – Level One Wine Bar |
Speaker Program Day 1
Thursday 5th September 2024
| 8.30 am | Welcome Kristyn Adamczyk, Co-Chair, Organising Committee |
| 8.35am | Opening Address John Greenfield, Consultant– State of Play of Mineral Exploration in the Tasmanides |
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The Big Picture
Moderator: Richard Blewett |
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| 9.00 am | The giant Lachlan Orocline of eastern Australia – a radical new way of thinking about the Ordovician-Devonian tectonics and mineral systems of Eastern Australia - Ross Cayley, Geological Survey of Victoria |
| 9.25 am | Plate tectonics of the New England Orogen and its mineral deposits - Gideon Rosenbaum, University of Queensland |
| 9.50am | Importance of crustal nature and architecture to exploration: a new look at the Eastern Lachlan Orogen - Karen Connors, AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd |
| 10:15am | The Big Picture Q and A |
| 10:35am | Morning Tea |
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Magmatic
Chair: Kenny Bush |
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| 11.00am | Targeting porphyry and epithermal gold-copper mineralisation at the Spur Project within the Cargo District - Peter Duerden, Waratah Minerals |
| 11.25am | Ravenswood Gold - Building Queensland's Biggest Gold Mine - Steve Harper, Ravenswood Gold |
| 11.50am | Myall Project: The value of persistence under cover in the East Lachlan– Steven Oxenburgh, Magmatic Resources Ltd |
| 12:15pm | Pursuit of IOCG systems in Western Tasmania – Sean Westbrook, CopperCorp Resources Inc. |
| 12:40pm | Lunch |
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Basins
Chair: Kaylene Camuti |
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| 1.40pm | Mt Chalmers VHMS – New life for a forgotten gem -- Peter Caristo, Q Mines Ltd |
| 2.05pm | The Geological History of the Wirlong Cu-Ag Deposit, Cobar Basin, New South Wales – Sebastian Hind, Peel Mining Ltd |
| 2.30pm | Peak Gold Mine – 31 years of continuous production – transitioning for the future– Scott Munro, Aurelia Metals Ltd |
| 2.55pm | The Nymagee District: Exploring beyond Federation– Todd McGilvray, Aurelia Metals Ltd |
| 3.20pm | Afternoon Tea |
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Magmatic cont'd
Chair: Mark Arundell |
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| 3.45pm | Exploring for porphyry-related copper-gold mineralisation in the northern Junee-Narromine Macquarie Arc, a focus on the Duck Creek Project in EL8965 – Doug Menzies, Inflection Resources |
| 4.10pm | The Evolution of the Bowdens Silver Ore Body and its exploration implications – David Biggs, Bowdens Silver Pty Ltd |
| 4.35pm | The Dittmer Project – A Cretaceous Intrusive-Related Gold-Copper System - David AIzzeddin and Juli Hugenholtz, Ballymore Resources |
| 5.00pm | TESEP: Teacher Earth Science Education Programme |
| 5.15pm | End of Day |
Speaker Program Day 2
Friday 6th September 2024
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The Big Picture
Chair: Melinda Deacon, Co-Chair Organising Committee |
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| 9.00am | "Newmont exploration in Eastern Australia" – Philippa Sivwright Newmont Australia Ltd |
| 9.30am | Advancing exploration in the Delamerian Orogen: New mineral potential insights - Yanbo Cheng, Geoscience Australia |
| 10.00am | Geochemistry, back to basics; Pathfinder Element footprints of Eastern Australian Mineral Deposits - Scott Halley, Consulting Geochemist |
| 10.25am | Morning Tea |
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Magmatic cont'd
Chair: Phil Blevin |
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| 10.55am | The Bauloora Project, NSW - A preserved low-sulphidation epithermal system – Tom Wall, Legacy Minerals |
| 11.20am | New insights from the Cowal gold mine – Ned Howard, Evolution Mining Ltd |
| 11.45am | Underexplored Tasmania – Northeast Tassies' Golden Corridor– Michael Fenwick, Flynn Gold Ltd |
| 12.10pm | Recent developments in the understanding of the Boda-Kaiser Au-Cu porphyry system – David Meates, Alkane Resources Ltd |
| 12.35pm | Lunch |
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Orogenic
Chair: Doug Menzies |
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| 1.30pm | Hill End - A unique gold story – Roger Jackson, Vertex Minerals Ltd |
| 1.55pm | The Haunted Stream Goldfield - Victoria's Eastern Goldfields- Ian Neilson, Model Earth Pty Ltd |
| 2.20pm | Exploration around granite margins: A workflow case study from the Weethalle Gold project, Central Lachlan NSW- Richard Blewett, Weethalle Gold Pty Ltd |
| 2.45pm | Sunday Creek: High-grade Au-Sb discovery Clonbinane, Victoria–Kenneth Bush, Southern Cross Gold Ltd |
| 3.10pm | Afternoon Tea |
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Critical Minerals
Chair: Yamei Wang |
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| 3.35pm | Exploration potential for peralkaline REE deposits in central western New South Wales-Brenainn Simpson, Geological Survey of New South Wales |
| 4.00pm | Geology and Deposit Model of the Narraburra REE Deposit - Damien Mizow, Godolphin Resources Ltd |
| 4.25pm | Critical Minerals in the Tasmanides: A Dorchap Lithium Project update – Owen Greenberger, Dart Mining |
| 4.50pm | Prize giving and wrap up |
| 5.00pm | Conference Concludes |