We commenced with anticipation
A hum of excited conversation
Then Kaylene Camuti
In her introductory duty
Spoke of career expectation
Dick and Dave then both set the scene
And they gave a fantastic routine
With a framework tectonic
And isotopes radiogonic
(Well I had to get it to rhyme, didnt I)
And everything else in between
We continued with systems magmatic
And illustrations diagrammatic
Deposits hosted by breccia
Full of gold, yes, you betcha,
And all of it very dramatic
Grace Cumming whose detailed observations
Have such silver-gold implications
And then Rosie Sloan
Came into her own
With deep IP penetration
There was a session on granites and more
And we heard of deposits galore
For a start Phil Blevin
Was in seventh heaven
At the thought of all that tin ore
To the podium strode Andrew White
And I thought he was looking quite bright
Down there at Mount Adrah
They just say Abracadabra
And Bingo what a delight
As a stand-in, along came Ross Cayley
Rollback he said it so gaily
In Mungana the conditions
Attract bent politicians –
But in Sydney we get that stuff daily
Eoin and Tim with rock alteration
To assist with interpretation
You can look under cover
Where it’s hard to discover
But plenty of great expectation
Maggie Hayes is a bit of a sleuth
She’s uncovered all those gems of truth
When geologists ancient and wise
With excitement still in their eyes
Re-lived all the fun of their youth
Peter Downs kicked off on Day Two
With the support of a wonderful crew
With fantastic oration
About Cobar exploration
And quite a lot of it new
We had persistence and dedication
We had much structural complication
We had 22 percent copper
Now that is a whopper
And what a fantastic location
They spoke of silicification
Of volcanics and fault activation
Though basin inversion
Sounds like a perversion
In discovery, its pure revelation
And finally to orogenic gold
And here there was much to behold
To lead the charge
It was up to Ross Large
So we’d see the story unfold
There was Simon and there was Bruce Kay
There was Cael and Anthony Gray
Theres so much euphoria
Down there in Victoria
You can hear them shout hip-hip-hooray
And north of the border we find
Theyre certainly not left behind
In the Girilambone Basin
And at Tomingley, theyre racin
Theres so much more to be mined
If your name didnt get a mention
Its not for a lack of attention
I could go on for so long
I could break into song
Its been such a fantastic convention
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Or youve got academic constipation
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That will give you a smile
And provide that much-needed inspiration
If your career has hit the rails
Or your business model fails
Revive your expectations
From these great presentations
In Orange, New South Wales
If your companys fortune declines
If your chief geologist resigns
If you want to know more
About how to find ore
Come to the next Mines and Wines