Exploration in data-rich environments, close to existing mines, has become a preferred and successful method of increasing company resources in recent years. With this exploration philosophy in mind, CODES is proud to present a Masters-level two-week intensive training program designed to bring participants up to date with the latest exploration techniques.
The course will cover cutting-edge technologies in geophysics, geochemistry, hyperspectral reflectance and 3D visualisation, using real data from world-class mineralised districts. The program is presented by expert teaching staff from CODES and leading minerals industry professionals.
John Ashton worked in several roles for Boliden at the Navan Zn-Pb mine in Ireland including Chief Mine Geologist and as Chief Exploration Geologist up to retirement in 2019. Earlier work includes PhD research on Zn-Pb-Au vein geology and litho-geochemistry in Central Wales, and as mine geologist at the Silvermines Zn-Pb orebody in Ireland. Experience and interests include 3D geological modelling, resource estimation, the genesis of carbonate-hosted Zn/Pb deposits and exploration for base metal deposits. Since retirement he has been providing consultancy services to Boliden’s exploration JVs in Ireland.
Tim Baker has been Chief Geoscientist for Eldorado Gold Corporation since 2012. Tim is a graduate of the University of Cardiff, Wales, and holds a Doctorate in geology from James Cook University in Australia. He has over 25 years of experience working in industry, academia and government including research and academic positions at the Mineral Deposit Research Unit, University of British Columbia, and James Cook University, as well as Director of the Geological Survey of South Australia and Exploration Manager of Sovereign Metals. In 2002 Tim received the Society of Economic Geologist’s Lindgren Award.
Paul Dale works for Catalyst Metals.
Oliver Davies is currently CEO at Sky Metals having been at SKY since listing in 2019. Previously Oliver worked in exploration and operational roles with Evolution Mining and Alkane Resources in NSW and Qld. Oliver has worked closely on several successful exploration projects including the significant expansion of Evolution Mining’s Lake Cowal gold resource and with Alkane’s regional exploration success at Tomingley and Boda.
Wessley Edgar (MSc Mineral Econ., BSc Geology Hons) has been Chief Geologist (Aust.) for Agnico Eagle and it’s Australian predecessors Kirkland Lake Gold and Newmarket Gold since 2016. He has 32 years’ experience in various mine and exploration roles for RGC, Goldfields Ltd, Auriongold, Placer Dome Asia-Pacific, Iberian Resources, Castlemaine Goldfields, and Navarre Minerals. Maintaining input into exploration in the Northern Territory since the Cosmo-Lantern mine closed in 2020, his first mine experience was at the Pine Creek gold mine there in 1991.
Kim Frankcombe graduated from UTAS, prior to the creation of CODES, with a geology and geophysics double major. He started working life as an exploration geologist before transitioning to an exploration geophysicist. He has worked for international and national majors , global contractors and for the past 25 years as a consultant within consulting groups. He provides everything from broad geoscience advice to single prospectors and juniors with low levels of technical expertise through to high level specialist geophysical advice to large company geophysicists and other consulting groups.
Scott Halley is an independent consultant specializing in exploration geochemistry, and the application of multi-element ICP geochemistry and SWIR analysis to mapping alteration mineral zonation patterns around hydrothermal systems. Over the past 20 years, Scott has consulted to more than 180 mining and exploration companies in more than 25 countries.
Kate Hineis the Principal Consultant for, and a Director of, Mitre Geophysics which has been advising the mining industry since 1980, and has worked on projects across the globe including both Antarctica and the Arctic. Kate has 20 years experience working on a wide variety of commodities in a range of different geological settings, with some of the most interesting and exciting discoveries in Australia and worldwide. In Kate’s portfolio of discoveries, several are more than 400m below surface with no surface indications. Her particular specialty is high quality EM processing and interpretation, but she also has unrivalled expertise in MMR methods, used to detect and define weakly conductive mineralisation. Kate is also active in research and publication and has won two ‘Best Paper’ awards from the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. She is also regularly invited to speak at industry events. Kate graduated in 2002 from the University of Tasmania.
Terry Hoschke joined Geopeko in the 1980s exploring for a number of commodities including gold, uranium and base metals. This included conducting IP and magnetic surveys at North Parkes. He managed the Darwin exploration office for North Limited for 3 years from 1992 and subsequently worked on porphyry exploration for North in Indonesia. He worked for Normandy/Newmont from 2001 to 2013 during which time he completed an MSc thesis on the geophysics of porphyry and epithermal systems. This was subsequently published by CODES. He is currently a geophysical consultant, based in Perth. He has worked on a number of projects in NSW including geophysics in the Cadia area for Newcrest.
Ned Howard is Principal Geologist, Technical at Evolution Mining. After graduating from UTAS with BSc Hons in 2004, Ned worked as an exploration geologist with Barrick and junior companies in Australia, Indonesia, PNG and Canada, before joining Evolution Mining in 2013. With Evolution, he has held geoscience and project generation roles supporting their near mine and greenfields exploration efforts. He specializes in geochemical and spectral applications and has worked on a number of gold deposit styles, predominately Archean greenstone and epithermal.
David Isles is a semi-retired geophysicst. He provides consulting and training services through Southern Geoscience Consultants focused on interpretation of aeromagnetics, gravity and radiometrics in mineral exploration applications
Corey Jago is a Geologist with 17 years industry experience in the near-mine exploration and resource development of base and precious metal resources throughout Australia and the DRC. He is a graduate of CODES having completed a Bachelor of Science Honours in 2005 and a Master in Economic Geology in 2021. His current role is focused on building orebody knowledge at Rosebery and incorporating it into the various aspects of the mining value chain such as geology, mining, processing, environment and growth.
Andrew McNeill is Chief Government Geologist, Mineral Resources Tasmania. Andrew completed his PhD at CODES in 1998, has spent many years as an exploration geologist in both Tasmania and mainland Australia, six years at CODES working on VHMS and magmatic Ni, and has for the last 9 years worked at Mineral Resources Tasmania.
David Rhys is a Consulting Structural Geologist, Panterra Geoservices. He has extensive experience in gold deposits, having worked globally on numerous gold districts of various types for a variety of clients including both major and junior companies.
Francois Robert holds degrees in Geological Engineering, MSc, and PhD degrees from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. His PhD focused on the now classic orogenic Sigma gold-quartz vein system at Val d’Or, Quebec. After a post-doctorate at the University of Michigan, he spent 12 years at the Geological Survey of Canada studying gold deposits in deformed terranes in Canada and abroad. He then spent 22 years with Barrick Gold Corporation, the last 12 of these as Chief Geologist -Global Exploration. He retired at the end of 2019 and now works as a part-time consultant to the Minerals Industry. He has published numerous papers on gold deposits in greenstone belts and contributed extensively to scientific organizations such as SEG. He also received multiple national and international awards.
Shaun Schmeideris the Director for Near Mine Exploration at Newmont Australia and has been with the company since 1997. Shaun has worked in the mining and exploration industry for the last 26 years with experience inclusive of regional exploration, near-mine exploration, resource development, resource evaluation and mine production geology. He has worked on various exploration projects and gold mining operations in Australia, New Zealand, Nevada USA, Canada, Peru, Ghana and Indonesia. In the last ten years Shaun was the country Exploration Manager with PTNNT in Indonesia leading the execution of a multiple rig, heli supported drill program to advance the Elang Au-Cu Porphyry deposit to Resource declaration (20Moz Au, 13Blb Cu). More recently Shaun held the position of Geology and Tech Services Manager at the Tanami Operation in the Northern Territory where he led a team to deliver 6.8 Moz of new Reserve from 2013 to 2020.
Jo Whelan, is Manager Basement Geoscience , Northern Territory Geological Survey
Andrew Wurst is Global Chief Geologist at Barrick Gold Corporation.
Tony Webster is Principal Structural Geologist, GeoDiscovery Group. He specialises in the application of structural geology to problems in mining and exploration geology, and in unravelling the litho-structural architecture of complexly deformed ore deposits
Lesley Wyborn is Honorary Professor, Australian National University. Her geoscience research focuses on improving the understanding of major Proterozoic Granite Systems and in developing the concepts for national to regional controls on major Mineral Systems.
Monday
24 October |
(am) Introduction to Brownfields Exploration: Perspectives and Case Histories (Robert Scott, Ned Howard, John Ashton, Andrew Wurst)
Panel 1: Brownfield Philosophies: Past, Present and Future
(Ned Howard, John Ashton, Andrew Wurst)
(pm) Database Management
Panel 2: Working with Old Data: Challenges and Opportunities
(Tony Webster, Andrew McNeill, Oliver Davies)
Database practical
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Tuesday
25 October |
Brownfields Exploration: Geophysics (Michael Roach) |
Wednesday
26 October |
Panel 3: Geophysical Brownfields Exploration
(Terry Hoschke, Kate Hine, Kim Frankcombe)
Brownfields Exploration: Geophysics cont. (Michael Roach)
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Thursday
27 October |
Brownfields Exploration: Geochemistry (Scott Halley)
Panel 4: Exploration in Mature Terrane: The Mount Read Volcanics (Andrew McNeill, Corey Jago, Paul Dale)
Hellyer practical exercise (Scott Halley)
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Friday
28 October |
(am) Hellyer practical exercise cont. (Scott Halley)
(pm) 3D Modelling—Leapfrog introduction (Robert Scott)
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Saturday
29 October |
3D Modelling—Leapfrog cont. (Robert Scott) |
Monday
28 November |
Panel 5: An Introduction to the Pine Creek Inlier, Northern Territory, (David Isles, Lesley Wyborn, Wess Edgar, Jo Whelan)
Brownfields exploration in Proterozoic Au Districts (Robert Scott, Michael Roach)
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Tuesday
29 November |
Panel 6: The influence of Choosing Gold Deposit Models to Brownfields Exploration Strategies
(Francois Robert, David Rhys, Tim Baker, Shaun Schmeider)
Brownfields Exploration in Proterozoic Au Districts (Robert Scott, Michael Roach)
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Wednesday
30 November |
Brownfields exploration in Proterozoic Au Districts cont. (Robert Scott, Michael Roach) |
Thursday
1 December |
Brownfields exploration in Proterozoic Au Districts cont.
(Robert Scott, Michael Roach) |
Friday
2 December |
Student Presentations and Wrap-Up |
REGISTRATION FEES
Minerals Geoscience Masters Program (MGM) Students:
(Excludes UTAS tuition fee)
Full course (free) – University of Tasmania enrolled
Full course (free) – University of Western Australia enrolled
Industry Participants
Full course ($3,300)), 6 or more days
$550/day (maximum charge 6 days)
Panel Sessions only:
All Panels ($1,000)
Panels ($200/panel)
Other Full-time Students (must provide proof of student status):
A limited number of discount places may be available for full-time students from other institutions.
Please contact
CODES.Info@utas.edu.au to inquire about availability, together with proof of current full-time enrolment.
Registration
REGISTRATION FORM
Registrations are due by the 13th October, 2022. Full payment must be received by the 20th of October, 2022.
