UWA MSc Ore Deposit Geology Unit Descriptions
Ore Deposit Conceptual Models (EART8504)
Dates: 19 Feb 2 Mar 2009 (offered in subsequent odd years) Location: University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting
Experts interpret the current state of research and exploration in a series of mineral systems and exploration-oriented workshops on the following deposit types; orogenic and intrusion-related gold (2 days), iron-oxide copper gold (1 day), Carlin-style gold and Cu-Mo-Au porphyry (1 day), regional-scale metallogenic features (1 day), nickel-sulphide (2 days), uranium (2 day) iron-ore (1 day) and diamonds (1 day). Available to industry participants as individual modules.
Presenters: Prof David Groves (UWA), Dr Rich Goldfarb, Dr John Mair, Dr Craig Hart, CET staff and other recognized specialists from industry and academia.
Computer-Aided Exploration Techniques (EART8506)
Dates: 9-20 July 2009 (offered in subsequent odd years) Location: University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting
This course is intended to give participants experience in a range of computer-based methods for the collection, integration, visualization and analysis of exploration data sets. The course covers mapping of primary, alteration, and regolith mineralogy with remote (HyMap and ASTER) and proximal (ASD, PIMA, HyLogger, FaceScanner) spectral sensors, an introduction to GIS for geoscientists, techniques for representing exploration criteria as GIS layers, spatial data analysis methods to select, test and rank exploration criteria, weights of evidence, fuzzy logic, and neural network methods for combining exploration data into a mineral prospectivity maps and numerical packages used to simulate physical and chemical processes and define target areas. Available to industry participants as individual modules.
Presenters: Dr Tom Cudahy (CSIRO Exploration & Mining), Dr Rob Hewson (CSIRO c), Dr Stephen Gardoll (Redstone Resources), Dr Warick Brown (CET, UWA), Paul Roberts (pmd* CRC, CSIRO E&M), Dr Klaus Gessner (pmd* CRC, CSIRO E&M),
South African Ore Deposits Field Excursion (EART8519)
Dates: 3-16 Sept 2008 (offered in subsequent even years) Location: South Africa
South Africa is one of the best endowed mineral-resource regions on Earth with an exciting and diverse range of deposit environments. This field trip includes visits to the following deposits and surrounding areas of geological interest; Rustenberg Pt Mine (Merensky Reef, UG2 chromite), Planesberg Complex (alkaline volcano) Vergengoeg and Buffalo fluorite mines, Platreef mine, Bushveld Complex (Pt-Pd), Jagdlust Chromite mine, Driekop Pt pipe, classic exposures of the UG1 (Dwars River chromatite, magnetitites) and other chromite seams, Palabora Carbonatite (apatite, Cu mines), Mystique, Premier Diamond Pipe, Witwatersrand Mine, as well as and a stop at the Kruger National Park.
Presenters: Prof David Groves (UWA), Prof Grant Cawthorne (U. Witwatersrand) CET staff and local deposit experts.
Fee: $2000 enrolment fee for MSc students plus ~$2500 (flight), plus $2000 (field trip costs) = $5500. For all other participants: $6500.
Applied Structural and Field Geology (EART8504)
Dates: 3-14 July 2008 (offered in subsequent even years) Location: UWA Perth
campus and field trip around Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area.
A 3-day classroom-based module consisting of alternating short lectures and problem-solving exercises and a 7-day field excursion in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area consisting of tutorials and field exercises. Available to industry participants as individual modules.
The 3-day classroom-based course is an introduction to the principles of structural geology based on real deposits with emphasis on mineral exploration from mine to regional scale and the structural controls on hydrothermal ore deposits. Topics covered include: the visualization of geological features in three dimensions, analysis of folded rocks, faults and fault systems, regional structural and tectonic environments, tectonic styles and their geophysical expression, and the analysis of structures in drill core. The 7-day field excursion in the Kalgoorlie Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, involves a series of field exercises to demonstrate: 1) what structural features to map and how to recognise them in the field, 2) show how to integrate field structural observations with regional geological and geophysical data sets, 3) how to approach mine-scale mapping; and 4) how to integrate structural field observations with an understanding of mineral systems in mine to regional scale exploration.
Presenters: Prof Cam McCuaig (CET, UWA; formerly SRK Consulting), CET staff, and recognized specialists from industry and academia.
Fee: Enrolment fee for MSc students plus $500. For other participants, $2500 total or $250 per day for UWA-based modules.
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