“New Exploration Technologies” Symposium
Kirribilli Club, Milsons Point, Friday, 11th September, 2009 Link to Abstracts Volume

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• SESSION 1 – Geochemistry and Geophysics

• Chairman: Ian Neuss
• 9:00 – 9:25 Dave Cohen
  Geochemistry and the challenge
  posed by exotic cover
• 9:25 – 9:50Andrew Boyd
  New generation helicopter time domain EM
  systems Andrew Boyd
  New generation helicopter time domain EM
  systems
• 9:50 – 10:15 Rob Hough
  Invisible gold revealed in
  supergene and hypogene environments – new insights
  into gold mobility
• 10:15 – 10:40Neil Rutherford
  Partial leaches, sulphur
  isotopes and regolith controls –
  Osborne
  case study.
• Morning tea 10:40 to 11:15
• 10.30am MORNING TEA

• SESSION 2 – Prospect and Regional Scale Mapping

• Chairman: Lindsay Gilligan
• 11:15 – 11:40Bob Musgrave
  How deep do you want to look?
  Tilt filters, layer filters,
  and
  other new ways of extracting depth structure from geophysical data
• 11:40 – 12:05 Mark Manly
  The Spalding Copper Prospect:A Case Study in Geochemical
  Sampling Using Field Portable XRF Witheld at presenter’s request
• 12:05 – 12:30 Greg Street
  Airborne gravity gradiometry
• 12:30 – 12:55 Tim Rawling
  New techniques in regional 3D
  geological mapping, simulation and
  visualisation and their application in predictive
  mineral exploration.
• Lunch 12:55 to 2:15

• SESSION 3 – New Uses for Old Data and Techniques

• Chairman: Phil Hellman
• 2:15 – 2:40 Dave Lawie
  New uses for old data; lithogeochemistry for classification,
  alteration
  and geometallurgy
• 2:40 – 3:05 Steve Collins
  Modern 3D IP surveying.  Steady forward progress towards an efficient,
  safe and effective exploration technique.
• 3:05 – 3:30 Kate Godber
  The use of downhole
  magnetometric resistivity at Broken Hill
• Afternoon tea

• SESSION 3 – Maximising Drilling Effectiveness

• Chairman: Tim McConachy
• 4:10 – 4:35 Colin Skidmore
  Borehole
  logging for uranium including direct
  measurement
  – the pros and cons.
• 4:35 – 5:00 Carina Kemp
                          Borehole Radar for Exploration in Australia.
• 5:00 – 5:25 Jock Cunningham
  Advances in Mineral
  Exploration and Mining Drilling Technologies
• 5:25 – 5:35Summary and Farewell – Mike
  Smith