Minerals and Energy Resources

High tech metals in New South Wales

High-tech metals are used in rapidly growing advanced-technology industries that are now being boosted by consumer demand for a high-tech, connected and environmentally sustainable future. The Geological Survey of NSW has released a map, report and a series of fact sheets highlighting their state’s contribution to this emerging sector of Australia’s minerals industry. The variety

JORC Training

AIG is working with a leading Australian geological and mining consulting practice to develop an affordable, comprehensive, five module training course for resource and reserves professionals and those who make use of resource and reserve statements.

Exploration Geochemistry: Getting it right to extract maximum value for minimal cost

Exploration Geochemistry: Getting it right to extract maximum value for minimal cost. The next instalment in the popular Queensland Branch Friday seminar series will be held 12 April at UQ Business School, Lvl 6, 293 Queen St, Brisbane.

Bipartisan support by the Coalition and Labor will help our resource sector dig deeper for Australia’s secure future

The peak body for Australia’s 8,000 geoscientists — the Australian Geoscience Council (AGC) — has strongly welcomed commitments from both the Coalition Government and Australian Labor Party to boost support for the exploration of ‘next generation’ hidden mineral deposits in Australia. “While Australia is endowed with significant mineral resources and the resources sector contributes massively

Mining Geology 2019: Submit your abstracts by 4 March 2019

Mining Geology: 2020 and beyond Don’t miss this opportunity to share new technologies, best practices and innovations within the mine value chain. Call for abstracts are set to close on Monday 4 March 2019. Topics for the conference call for abstracts are; Best practice in data collection and mining geology – now and emerging The future

Porphyry copper-gold deposits in the circum-Pacific and elsewhere

This workshop will consist of two major parts. The first describes the tectonic and regional controls to copper and gold mineralization in the circum-Pacific region with a focus on the magmatic arcs of Southeast Asia, Western Pacific, Peruvian Andes and Ecuador. The relationships of mineralization to subduction-slab geometry, varying deformational styles, cross-orogen structures, heat- and fluid-flow focussing mechanisms and other

PACRIM 2019 early bird registration

The PACRIM Congress ‘Mineral Systems of the Pacific Rim’, brings together the most recent advances in academic research and geological understanding, regional surveys by government agencies and the industry’s latest discoveries and projects to showcase the importance of the Pacific Rim for global mineral wealth and investment. There is only one week remaining to register

AEGC 2019: Call for Abstracts

The theme for the 2019 conference is “Data to Discovery”. The AEGC technical program committee has a focus on Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry and how these are applied in exploration for both Petroleum and Mineral systems in Australasia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.The conference has major sub-themes encompassing but not limited to: New technologies New

Epithermal Au-Ag and Porphyry Cu-Au Exploration short course

Greg Corbett and Stuart Hayward are presenting their popular epithermal Au-Ag and Porphyry Cu-Au Exploration short course, 14-16 May 2019. May 14 & 15, Chatswood Club, 11 Help Chatswood, NSW (5 mins walk from Chatswood train station) lunch, morning and afternoon teas provided. Two days of PowerPoint lectures focus upon mineral exploration for epithermal and

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rescinds Guide 7

Updated regulations to allow U.S. mining and exploration companies to report mineral resources resources. Competent person requirements also feature in the new rules for the first time. In October, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final rule that overhauls its existing disclosure requirements for mining company issuers. This represents the first major