Trade Displays: Hellman & Schofield - Innov-X Systems - GeoMole Pty Ltd - Golden Cross Resources
Ultramag Geophysics - ALS Minerals Division - Prospectors Earth Sciences - Pitney Bowes
Drinks Sponsor: Malachite Resources

Accommodation
Parklands Resort and Conference Centre     Other Accommodation in Mudgee
Goulburn River Stone Cottages
Aeropelican now flying Sydney - Mudgee. Timetables here

NEW ENGLAND OROGEN 2010
November 16th-19th, 2010
Venue: Biological Sciences Lecture Theatre
University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
Tectonics, Resources and Mineral Prospectivity: A celebration of 70+ years of geology at New England University College of the University of Sydney (1939) and the University of New England (1954) and the launch of the New England granites database (50 years in the making)

TVZ Field Trip: 28 November to 4 December 2010 - Geothermal & Epithermal Resources
Visit the web site below for information on an upcoming field trip to geothermal areas, volcanoes, and epithermal deposits in the North Island of New Zealand.
It will be of interest to geoscientists who want to more about epithermal deposits and geothermal resources.
Please contact the organiser, Stuart Simmons if you have questions.
Updates will be posted on his website.

The Australian Resources and Energy Conference,
Broken Hill, 21st - 25th May 2011

With such a vast array and wealth of natural resources, it’s time to showcase what this region – and indeed the whole of Australia – has to offer, across all resource and energy sectors, from mining, oil and gas, to minerals, precious metals and alternative energy. This will be the largest event ever run in Australia – across any industry – with a wide mix of delegates comprising the majority of Australian resource and energy businesses and keen international investment interest from fund managers, bankers and private investors.

We are developing a packed agenda for renowned Australian and international speakers to discuss the future of the industry and changing energy needs, and for company leaders to present their business and opportunities for investment to a wide-ranging and influential audience. Register your interest now to avoid missing out on this inaugural annual mining and resources event.

Profits from the conference will be allocated for scholarships for students to enter the resources industry.

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Teacher Earth Science Education Programme
Teacher Earth Science Education Programme (TESEP) is seeking partners to help fund this initiative to encourage more secondary school students to consider careers in earth sciences.
TESEP has received many new partners including the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and the Geological Society of Australia (GSA), university groups from Macquarie, Sydney and Melbourne and companies such as Woodside, Beach Petroleum and GeoDynamics. In addition TESEP has partnered with the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA). ASTA has agreed to administer the business operations of TESEP and provide all necessary logistical support in running the TESEP workshops and other activities.
TESEP has developed a national plan to run teacher professional development workshops on key areas of topical interest and curriculum relevance between 2008 and 2010 and may be in a position to commence operations mid year. However, to ensure we can commence in 2008 we need further partners to come on board. Only a few more partners and we will be assured of commencing this year but if we get many more we can be not only certain of starting but confident of really making a big impact as we go forward into 2009 and 2010.

A LINK FOR GREENHOUSE SCEPTICS
AND ANOTHER
for those of you who need to know just how CO2 performs....
Kim's Words of Wisdom..... Climate change never stops - it's changing all the time and, while we don't have a choice, I'll take warming over cooling any day.
Ice sheets are a bugger to grow stuff in......
&
Nature abhors a vacuum. On this very dynamic, life-infested planet, any organism that can will exploit any abundance of any element, molecule or compound that’s available for it to consume, to build with or on until balance is restored. Keep calm, and try and get out more.
Subversive, but entertaining stuff from the Anthropogenic Climate Change Sceptics (Militant Wing)

MINES & WINES CONFERENCE 2006
The Presentations, Abstracts and Powerpoints now available - Click Here

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Gnomic Exploration Services always has places for more Mineral Exploration Geologists, Lab and Field Technicians and other exploration & mine personnel
E-mail here for details
Review the Gnomic Web Site for Australia-wide and Overseas Opportunities

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Ron Manners' Various Books - Kalgoorlie Histories --- "Never a Dull Moment" and "Kanowna's Barrowman"

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TERRA SEARCH
Specialists in Mineral Exploration and Computing

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Recommended Reading/Viewing
"Mining in the Next 20 Years" - A Cordilleran Roundup Presentation by
Dr Norman B. Keevil, Teck Cominco Limited, January 29th, 2003
Notes (58 KB, .pdf - download and print these first) & then view the Slides (552 KB, .pdf).

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Mineral Exploration Photos
Images from Gnomes around the Planet
If you're a Gnome from the past, and want to get in touch -
e-mail here. Visit the the photo gallery Gnomic Photo Gallery

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The Correspondence Page has information about Geoff Derrick's Century Zinc Mine Atlas
So go LK!

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AIG HANDBOOK 5

Structural Logging of Drill Core
Roger Marjoribanks
.pdf Flyer Here

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"Geological Retrospective" - "Has Much Changed for the Better?" - "For the Worse?"
OR - "Plugger's Dog - A Busy Hound?" A time-trip to 1997 .....remember Busang....?
with Geoff "Nostradamus" Derrick.

Other Busang Memories from Terry Leach

Alteration and Mineralisation in the Busang Gold Prospect, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Alteration and Mineralisation in Drillcore from the Busang Prospect, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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*AMIRA's Data Metallogenica Centre has been updated. Information on progress, sponsors and supporters is available by Clicking Here
If you aren't aware of this amazing rock and mineral collection from orebodies from around the world then you should be!
Annual unlimited access subscriptions are being made available for $200, and to SEG members at a 50% discount (A$100) as SEG provided substantial financial assistance in the early days of Data Metallogenica's conception.
Various corporate subscriptions are available.

* AIG has a Video Library of Conferences and Presentations.

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The following Videos are available for loan:

Exploration Strategies Symposium 2001
Murray Basin Mineral Sands
NSW Integrated Tectonic Structural and Geophysical Maps
NSW DMR Investment Conference
After 2000-The Future of Mining-AusIMM
"Exploration Under Cover" (Abstracts)
SMEDG Talk-Kempfield
David Lowell at SMEDG
and, also, at the Sydney Mining Club.
Details from David Timms 02 9482 8833

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COMMENTS PAGE

...and for the trips down memory lane....

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2010

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2009

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2008

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2007

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2006

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2005

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2004

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2003

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2002

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2001

LINK TO ARCHIVES 2000

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TECHNICAL PAPERS	ABOUT SMEDG
PAST MEETINGS & DIVERSIONS	FUTURE MEETINGS
PHOTO LIBRARY	LINKS
SMEDG PUBLICATIONS	'EXPLORATION STRATEGIES' - 2001 SYMPOSIUM

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Vale - Obituaries - Remembrances - Memorial Pages

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SMEDG - MINERAL EXPLORATION - GEOLOGY - GEOCHEMISTRY - GEOPHYSICS - MINE DISCOVERY HISTORY