AIG Western Australia Branch Mentoring Program Launch! AIG Western Australia Branch is proud to announce that applications are now open for the inaugural 2015 student and graduate mentoring program.  We are currently looking for 15 mentors and mentees who are keen to enrol. The AIG Mentoring Program is an initiative of the newly formed National Graduate

What we learned from the highly successful period of exploration 1950 to 1999, with implications for the challenges of the future. The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and sponsors are pleased to announce the Yilgarn Retrospective, a two-day symposium to be held in Perth on March 30-31, 2015. The Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia) in the

Best wishes to all AIG members for the New Year.  Lets work to help make 2015 a productive and prosperous one for Australian geoscience. There are a few exciting developments in preparation for 2015 including: the relaunch of AIG Journal.  AIG’s rapid publication, peer reviewed geoscience publication will be back on-line very soon. A new

AIG is a cosponsor of a five day exploration skills course for graduate geoscientists being held by AusIMM in conjunction with Digirock in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 19-23 January 2015. The course is timed to be delivered early in a graduate’s career – near the start of initial employment. It is intended as a primer for the

Welcome to the AIG’s Early Career Geoscientist page AIG’s National Graduate Group The National Graduate Group (NGG) is a new initiative by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) to better communicate with its graduate and student members. Graduate members of the AIG were nominated by each state, who now sit on the National Graduate Committee

In the first quarter of 2014 the AIG Australian Geoscientist Employment survey recorded the highest levels of unemployment and underemployment since the surveys commenced in 2008. In june, the employment situation has improved slightly but self-employed geoscientists were clearly still suffering depressed demand of their services. These results demonstrated the value of monitoring geoscientist employment

Work is progressing well towards the relaunch AIG’s technical publication, AIG Journal, later this year. About AIG Journal AIG Journal will provide a vehicle for the rapid publication of both technical and professional geoscientific research, concepts, experience and other information spanning all fields of interest to AIG members.  The journal will be divided into two

The Queensland branch of the AIG together with the Australian Drilling Industry Association (ADIA) teamed up to present the latest Queensland Friday Seminar titled Drilling for Geology, on 1 August in Brisbane. The seminar comprised twelve excellent talks that were split into three seminar themes i.e. planning and design considerations, drilling and related activities, and

The AusIMM Geoscience Society, in collaboration with the JORC Committee and the AIG are hosting an AusIMM Monograph 30 Roadshow – Good Practice in Resources and Reserve Estimation roadshow, throughout Australia and New Zealand during October and November. Seminars will be held in: Kalgoorlie, Tuesday 28 October 2014 Perth, Thursday 30 October 2014 Brisbane, Thursday 6

Activities of the Vic branch of the AIG during the first half of 2014 comprised a series of monthly technical talks, which have included such esoteric subjects as the geology of various gold deposits from China to Nevada – and computer applications and remote sensing. The latest talk was by Bruce Kay (see Fig 1),