Other MSc Units Offered by Australian Institutions
Australian National University (CRC LEME)
Regolith Geology and Mineral Exploration (REG08503, UWA Code: ENRL8547)
Dates: CANCELLED 2008 (offered every year) Location: Fowlers Gap (100 km north of Broken Hill)
Introduction to regolith geology for mineral explorers. The course runs over an intensive 11 days including integrated lectures at Fowlers Gap and field site visits around the highly prospective Broken Hill, Curnamona and northwest NSW areas. The second week will be combined with an intensive regolith-landform mapping Honours field class.
Topics covered include: regolith terminology, materials and their geneses, landscape evolution models for mineral exploration, economic mineral deposits in the regolith); regolith mapping and remote sensing, rock and mineral weathering in the regolith, regolith of Australia (where is it? What are the
exploration problems associated with it?), exploration geochemistry and exploration strategies in regolith-dominated terrains, (recognising transported from in situ), choosing sampling materials, successfully, alternative sampling materials), regolith mineral exploration case studies, regolith sampling media, data handling, basic statistics and how to characterise anomalies.
Presenters: Dr Ian Roach.
Fee: $2000 plus $550 full board for the 11 days at Fowlers Gap plus incidental accommodation and meals in Broken Hill (depending on flight schedules). Masters students enrolled in a Minerals Geoscience Masters degree are offered a transport subsidy to attend with flights direct to Broken Hill.
Monash University (VIEPS, School of Geosciences)
Geophysical Field Camp (GFW, UWA Code: ENRL8536) & Geophysics Software Workshop (GSW, UWA Code: ENRL8537)
Dates: 25 February-2 March and 5-9 March 2009 (offered in subsequent odd years) Location: School of Geosciences, Monash University. Field area to be advised.
Two one-week short courses; a geophysics hardware-based field camp and a software course based at Monash University. The field camp consists of morning field sessions and afternoon lectures and tutorials. Each day of the software course consists of a two-hour formal lecture followed by an interactive three-hour tutorial/workshop session.
The field camp course (GFW) provides a field-based introduction to high definition geophysical surveys with emphasis on practical aspects of survey design and procedures. The course covers instrument operation, software options and survey parameters. Each geophysical technique (gravity, magnetics,
electromagnetics, seismic reflection, IP resistivity, ground penetrating radar, inductively coupled resistivity, ±magnetotellurics, ±passive seismic) is explained and demonstrated prior to participants gaining first-hand experience in its operation. A range of techniques are applied to locating and mapping a gold-bearing paleo-channel buried beneath flat pastureland near Maldon, Central Victoria.
The software course (GSW) is an introduction to geological modelling based on commercial geophysical packages commonly used in mineral exploration (Oasis Montaj, ERmapper, GM-SYS). The course systematically progresses through data preparation, interpolation, presentation, and interpretation using suites of data from gravity, magnetics, and EM surveys. Raw data collected in the field course are processed and interpreted in the computer laboratories of Monash University to produce a map of the buried gold-bearing paleo-channels. Familiarity with computer systems is recommended, although some fundamental training is provided.
Both courses are for VIEPS Honours, MSc students and are open to industry geoscientists.
Presenters: GSW Dr Laurent Ailleres assisted by Dr Pete Betts and Dr Duncan Massie, in collaboration with industry representatives from Des Fitzgerald and Associates, ENCOM Technologies and Geosoft. GFW Prof Jim Cull
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