Comments on the exposure draft of the revised VALMIN Code close on Friday 17 July 2015. All interested individuals and companies are invited to make a submission. The draft revised Code has been prepared in response to changes in market conditions and practices over the last decade since the publication of the VALMIN Code 2005.

AIG has received notification of the following disciplinary action against a professional geoscientist in British Columbia. Disciplinary Notice – Richard G.R. Munroe, P.Geo. A complaint was received by APEGBC relating to a technical report dated April 9, 2013 authored by Mr. Munroe which contained significant deficiencies and was contrary to Canada’s National Instrument 43-101. The

Few would not have seen the comedy sketch pictured here, where a customer seeks to complain to a shopkeeper regarding a dead but, in the shopkeeper’s eyes, still “beautiful” parrot. The sketch highlights conduct that doesn’t reflect well on the shopkeeper and would influence the parrot owner’s future decisions about whether to shop there again.

Professionalism cannot be turned on and off according to audience or subject matter. Recent controversy over articles published in AIG News concerning phases of water and water divining is healthy and to be encouraged (Refs 1, 2, 3). But, the AIG with the ASX, ASIC and AusIMM have recently instituted JORC 2012 (Ref. 4). JORC

This is the first in what is proposed to become a series of articles addressing ethical issues affecting professional geoscientists, ideally with particular relevance to Australia but where the nature of the topic makes contributions more broadly relevant.  David Abbott has been writing a column in professional ethics for the American Institute of Professional Geologists

Geoscientists Canada, the peak body which brings together the individual, provincial bodies responsible for the progressional registration of geoscientists and engineers on geoscience issues is considering defining the core competencies required of geoscientists for registration.  Geoscientists must be registered in Canada in order to practice as professionals where the exercise of independent judgement is central

The YES Network has recently launched the ‘Women in Geoscience Survey’, a global initiative launched with the UK Chapter of the International Association for Geoethics, with the aim to establish the needs and challenges faced by women in geosciences. The survey comes in the context of a global initiative launched by the UK Chapter of

AIG is relaunching it’s on-line technical publication in the next few weeks. The publication was originally known as AIG Journal and was on-line for a number of years, providing members with a means of publishing a range of technical articles, from short notes to complete technical papers. The journal site has been off-line for some

An exposure draft of the Australian Guidelines for the Estimation and Classification of Coal Resources has been released for public comment.  The guidelines have been produced by a volunteer committee of industry representatives as a revision to the 2003 edition of the guidelines that were originally published by the Coalfield Geology Council of New South