CWEDG Meeting Thursday 30th November – Jonathon Hoye on Macquarie Arc Exploration
 
Joseph Ogierman – The Discovery of Busang, Indonesia – “The World’s Largest Gold Deposit” – Before and After the Bre-X gold scandal
 
Dr Geoff Derrick – Century & Mary Kathleen – 500 Degrees of Separation Bio*SynopsisPresentation 1st halfPresentation 2nd half Geoff’s Contributions to SMEDG since 1993Pictorial
 
Bernard Rowe – Ioneer’s Rhyolite RidgeLithium-Boron Project, NevadaPresentation
 
Stuart Hayward – Mineral Hill UpdateBioSynopsis PRESENTATIONMeeting Pics
 
Dr Greg Corbett awarded the AIG 2023 Gold Medal
 
Graham Carman – Ayawilca Zinc-Silver-Tin Deposit, Peru – Flyer. – Presentation
 
Chris Byrne – Legacy MineralsBauloora Low Sulphidation Epithermal Au-Ag
 
GSNSW Exploration in the Gallery 12th May * Presentations
 
Dr. Phillip Hellman * Notice of Meeting * Presentation with Notes * On Rare Earths * Rare Earths – Background * and at CWEDG
 
Geoscience Students’ Career Night – University of Sydney 3rd May *** The Rocks Geotour Saturday, April 1, 2023
 
Mike Smith – The National Rock Garden – AbstractPresentation
 
CWEDG Orange 16th March. Dr Ian Graham. ‘Hera – an evolving story after 6 years of UNSW research’
 
Angus M Robinson, FAusIMM (CP) – ‘Striking Gold through Geotourism: developments in the Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion, a pilot project of the National Geotourism Strategy’
Biography and Synopsis and see PRESENTATION
 
Fender-SMEDG Young Geos Day 10th February 2023
 

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Mark Lindsay – The 309 & Lone Star Gold Deposits – Abstract – PRESENTATION
 
CWEDG – Adam McKinnon – Myall Cu-Au Project
 
Geological Survey of New South Wales – Annual ShowcaseGrant McLatchie – “Geological Survey of NSW”Astrid Carlton – “GS NSW’s largest geophysical acquisition campaign”Chris Folkes – “GS NSW geological mapping”James Ballard – “New functionality and datasets available in MinView and phone apps”
 
Doug Menzies – Wafi-Golpu porphyry Cu-Au deposit – Abstract (Pictorial)PRESENTATION .PDF
 
CWEDG October 12 OrangeDale Sims on Sample Quality
 
Caroline Perring – The Geodynamic Setting of Komatiite-Hosted Fe-Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits of the Agnew-Wiluna Belt, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia.  Presentation
 
SMEDG GOLDEN JUBILEE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONSSMEDG Committee Members’ Reminiscences
 
Steve Collins – The Heterodyne Method – A Zoom Meeting with ASEG
 
Greg Hall – Granny Smith Discovery Presentation
 

Mines & Wines Papers 2022: Discoveries in the Tasmanides Pictorial Review

 
CWEDG Alan Wilson Alkalic Porphyry Deposits 27th May
 
Tom Klein Bowdens Silver Deposit  Presentation
 
Nicole Galloway Worland – Innovative In-Situ Recovery of Copper-Gold – A Green Alternative to Conventional Mining
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Prof David Giles MinEx CRC SMEDG 24th March
 
CWEDG Prof. Peter Betts Orange 15th March

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Peter Downes and David Tilley -“Keys to understanding the Central Lachlan the GSNSW Nymagee mineral systems study”     Powerpoint Presentation Chris Torrey – “Silver City Minerals at Broken Hill” ~ POWERPOINT PRESENTATION Jane Barron and Russell Fountain – “A new, outcropping, greenfields gold discovery at Paupong (near Jindabyne) NSW; serendipity and science” JANE’S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

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Tony Hope – Exploration, Mines and Money POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AS 35MB.PDF – Mount Morgan – Murphyores HM deposits – Ginkgo HM deposit – Bougainville porphyry – Ok Tedi porphyry – Lihir Neil Rutherford – AbstractIntegrating Exploration Data to Develop and Modify Exploration Models: Case Studies from Two Sites in Indonesia (50MB) Ken Maiden & Karl Hartmann – Omitiomire Flyer OMITIOMIRE COPPER DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA:THE ROCKY ROAD TOWARDS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT (68MB .pdf! and great pictures…) John McIntyre and Bob Adamson – The Valuation of Mineral Projects Why are valuations required? How are valuations carried out? Who does a valuation? What are the roles of Valuers and Technical Appraisers? Is this a career option? What is AIMVA? –    Presentation.pdf Greg Corbett – Gold Discovery in Papua New Guinea – Flyer     Powerpoint Presentation as an 84 slide, 28MB .pdf Dedicated to the memory of Gavin Thomas SMEDG-AIG STUDENT NIGHT

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MINES & WINES CONFERENCE with NSW DPI – Geological Survey May 25th – 26th 2006 in Cessnock. It was a Beauty!

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  • Dr Dick Henley – Geology on the Right Side of the Brain.
  • John Duke – Rapid Evaluation Methods Used in Planning Large Scale Mining of Residual Gold Reserves.
  • Dr. Nick Badham – Exploration in the Area of the Cabacal Gold Deposit, Brazil.
  • 1988 – TECHNICAL MEETING – “CASE STUDIES IN WESTERN PACIFIC EXPLORATION” – with AusIMM.
  • 1988 – TECHNICAL MEETING – “NEW HORIZONS IN MINERAL SAND EXPLORATION” – with AusIMM.
  • Dr. Jim Macnae – EM for Gold Exploration and Geological Mapping.
  • Dr. Ken Maiden – Ore Deposits of SW Africa/Namibia and Some Analogues in the Australian Proterozoic.
Mike Smith – Geophysical Applications for Epithermal Exploration in the Western Pacific.

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  • Dr. David Garnett – Neutron Activation Analyses – Alchemy or Black Magic?
  • Dr Thomas Utter – Brazil’s Gold Mining Potential – Speculations and Observations.
  • Prof H. G. Bachmann – Assaying and Refining of Platinum Group Metals at Degussa AG, West Germany.
  • Dr Ian Story – Outlook for Mineral Exports and the Economy.
  • Gary Raymond – Some Case Histories of the Application of Geostatistics to Ore Reserves and Grade Control.

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  • 1985 – A SEMINAR – “EXPLORATION TOWARDS 2000” – with NSW DMR Speakers and Topics
  • 1983 – A SEMINAR – “HIGH GRADE METAL DEPOSITS IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA” – with NSW DMR Speakers and Topics

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  • Don Sangster – Geological Features of Canadian Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits.
  • Nick Marshall – United Nations Reconnaissance Geochemical Survey in Montenegro, Yugoslavia
  • Dr. Russell Fountain – Namosi Porphyry Copper Deposit, Fiji
  • D.A. Pretorius – Conceptual Models, Basin Analysis and Stratiform Mineralisation in South Africa.
  • Nick Marshall – U.N. Reconnaissance Geochemical Survey in Montenegro, Yugoslavia.
  • Russell Fountain – Namosi Porphyry Copper Deposit, Fiji.
  • Steve Webster – Geochemical and Geophysical Case Study of the Que River Base Metal Deposit, Tasmania.
  • Ken Maiden – Geology of the Cattle Grid Copper Deposit, Mount Gunson, South Australia.
  • Robin Curtis & Adrian Fleming – Geology and Evaluation of the Yandera Porphyry Copper Deposit, Papua New Guinea.
  • S. Breiner – Recent Developments in Instrumentation Applicable to Uranium Exploration.
  • Rob Ryan – Ranger 1 Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory: Exploration and Geology.
  • Lindsay Newnham & Kerry Reid – Geology and Exploration at Renison and Mt. Lyell, West Coast of Tasmania.m
  • D. Powell – Status of US Uranium Exploration.

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  • Don Wagg – Airborne Input EM Surveys for Massive Sulphide Deposits.
  • Garry Lowder & J.A.S. Dow – Discovery, Evaluation and Geological Features of Porphyry Copper Deposits in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  • John Rowntree & Dave Mosher – Case History and Descriptive Geology of the Jabiluka Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory.
  • Ron Butler & Greg Dunn – Mineral Analysis and the Geologist.
  • Mark Foy & David Tucker – The Koongarra Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory.
  • Gwynn Griffith – Geostatistical Method of Ore Reserve Estimation.
  • J.D. Crone – Ground Pulse EM in Exploration for Massive Sulphides.

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  • C. Baker & D. Pogson – Results of Recent Geological Survey of NSW Mapping in the Cobar Region.
  • Garry Lowder – The Geology and Exploration of the Ok Tedi Porphyry Copper Deposit, Papua New Guinea.
  • Jim Gingrich – The Application of Track-Etch Techniques in Uranium Exploration.
  • Ian Nichol – Geochemical Characteristics of Massive Sulphide Mineralisation in Canadian Archaean Greenstone Belts.
  • Brian Sowry – Geological Applications of Photometric Ore Sorters.
  • Janos Foldessy – Mineral Exploration in a State-controlled Socialist System – Hungarian Example.
  • Bill Shaw – The Forrestania Nickel Project, Western Australia.
  • Tony Howland-Rose – Geologists versus Geophysicists: A Communication Gap?
  • Geoff Louden – Marcopper Porphyry Copper Deposit, Philippines.

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  • R.W. Hutchinson – Volcanogenic Sulphide Deposits and their Metallogenic Significance.
  • Oskar Kortan – Geology of the Copper deposits of Cyprus.
  • A.J. Naldrett – Nickel Sulphide Deposits, Utramafic Rocks and the Mantle.
  • Ken McCracken – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About CSIRO Mineral Physics (but were afraid to ask).
  • John Sharpe – Volcanic Anatomy and Model of Some Canadian Massive Sulphide Ores.
  • N.L. Markham – Metallogenesis of the Lachlan Fold Belt with Reference to Metallogenic Maps of NSW.
  • Tim Welsh – The Cadia copper-magnetite deposit, NSW.
  • Spencer Titley – Pre-ore Tectonic Framework of Southwestern US Porphyries, with Implications Related to the SW Pacific.

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  • Peter Solomon – Geochemical Aspects of Exploration for Massive Sulphide Deposits with Particular Reference to the Lachlan Fold Belt. 9th November 1972.
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  • Vancouver Mining Exploration Group – Abstracts

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