EPITHERMAL & PORPHYRY ORE DEPOSITS

Field Aspects for Exploration Geologists

2 DAY EXPLORATION SHORT COURSE : presenter Greg Corbett

Orange – 9-10 September, Orange Ex-Services Club 231-243 Anson St (prior to Mines & Wines and field trip)
Registration from 8.00am starts 8.30 sharp!

Two days of power point lectures will use Pacific rim examples to discuss exploration for epithermal and porphyry ore deposits.

Course Description

• Introduction
• Some tools we use in exploration:
  • Hydrothermal alteration Structural control to mineralisation Breccias in ore systems
  • Staged model for porphyry Cu-Au development
  • Controls to low sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag
• High sulphidation epithermal Au
• Prospecting from above epithermal and porphyry ore zones
• Conclusion

Presenter

Dr Greg Corbett has over 30 years experience as a consultant exploration geologist working in Pacific rim epithermal and porphyry ore deposits.
Greg and the late Terry Leach presented SW Pacific rim short courses in the 1990’s (over 20 presentations in 12 countries), the notes for which were published as Economic Geology Special Publication 6, 1998.

Cost

There are a restricted number of discounted places for unemployed (3 months out of work) AIG member geologists and students.
Early bird: AIG members $1000, non-members $1250
Late (after 12 August): AIG members $1300, non-members $1550
Unemployed AIG members: $300 (only prior to 12 August)
Student AIG members: $200 (only prior to 12 August)
NOTE:
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided – see registration form for dietary requirements
Participants are responsible for their own accommodation

Please refer to flyer for details.

To Register online go to http://bookings.aig.org.au and follow the links