Invited talks/papers and speakers thereof remain provisional pending submission and acceptance of abstracts/manuscripts.
This program is provisional and is expected to change once non-invited abstracts are reviewed.
Approximately 40 slots are available for non-invited talks, and an estimated 200 for posters.
Plenary Sessions | ||
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Recent Breakthroughs in Economic Geology |
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8:15am – 8:30am |
Welcoming remarksSteve Enders, Conference Chair |
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8:30am – 9:00am |
Spatial periodicity in self-organized critical ore systemsNick Hayward (Invited Speaker) |
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9:00am – 9:30am |
Discovery of the Tara deep Zn-Pb mineralization at the Boliden Tara Mine, Navan, IrelandJohn Ashton (Invited Speaker) |
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9:30am – 10:00am |
TBD |
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10:00am – 11:00am |
Break |
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Integrating Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics |
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11:00am – 11:30am |
3D uncertainty in contrasting geological scenariosMark Jessell (Invited Speaker) |
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11:30am – 12:00pm |
Improved targeting through smarter integrationCraig Hart (Invited Speaker) |
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12:00pm – 12:30pm |
Exploration success: Strategic elements, technology, and innovationFrançois Robert (Invited Speaker) |
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12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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Integrating Petroleum and Minerals Systems Approaches to Sedimentary Basins |
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1:30pm – 2:00pm |
The power of a systems approach to minerals and petroleum exploration in sedimentary basinsCam McCuaig (Invited Speaker) |
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2:00pm – 2:30pm |
Fluid flow around evolving salt structures and their influence on metal depositsMike Hudec (Invited Speaker) |
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2:30pm – 3:00pm |
Processes controlling sedimentary basin resourcesLarry Cathles (Invited Speaker) |
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3:00pm – 3:30pm |
Break |
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Societal Implications |
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3:30pm – 4:00pm |
MeTooMining - Starting the conversation to change policy and culture in miningSusan Lomas (Invited Speaker) |
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4:00pm – 4:30pm |
TBD |
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4:30pm – 5:00pm |
TBD |
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SEG Distinguished Lecturer |
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4:50pm – 5:30pm |
Fluid evolution and selective metal enrichment in magmatic-hydrothermal Cu-Au ore systemsChristoph Heinrich (2018 SEG Distinguished Lecturer) |
*Presenting author is a student
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Mineral Exploration Footprints Project |
TBD |
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8:15am – 8:25am |
Mineral exploration footprints project - OverviewMike Lesher (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
8:25am – 8:45am |
Footprints: Data integration methodologies and workflowsLeonardo Feltrin (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
8:45am – 9:10am |
Exploration footprint of the Canadian Malartic disseminated gold depositStéphane Perrouty (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
9:10am – 9:35am |
Exploration footprint of the McArthur River and Millenium unconformity uranium depositsKevin Ansdell (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
9:35am – 10:00am |
Exploration footprint of the Highland Valley porphyry copper depositRobert Lee (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
10:00am – 10:30am |
Break |
Session 1 | Session 2 | |
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Precious Metals |
Technology and Infrastructure Metals |
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10:30am – 11:00am |
Archean gold: Lode deposits, silver isotopes, magmatic degassing, and early life on the Kaapvaal cratonChristoph Heinrich (2018 SEG Distinguished Lecturer) |
Critical minerals and modern engineered materialsRod Eggert (Invited Speaker) |
11:00am – 11:25am |
The challenges of exploring gold provinces in Sub-Saharan AfricaJoel Holliday (Invited Speaker) |
An overview of global critical metal resources: Current and future scenarios and implications for supply securitySimon Jowitt (Invited Speaker) |
11:25am – 12:30pm |
TBD |
TBD |
12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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Base Metals |
Precious Metals |
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1:30pm – 2:00pm |
Impact of exhalative hydrothermal systems on marine chemistry: Applications for ore genesis and mineral explorationPoul Emsbo (Invited Speaker) |
The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex: A new economic frontierJudith Kinnaird (Invited Speaker) |
2:00pm – 2:25pm |
Structural configuration of the Central African Copperbelt, with particular reference to the Congolese arm: Roles of evaporites in structural evolution, basin hydrology, and ore locationDavid Selley (Invited Speaker) |
Anhydrite assimilation by Bushveld ultramafic melts and its ore-petrological consequencesMarina Yudovskaya (Invited Speaker) |
2:25pm – 2:50pm |
Regional to deposit scale controls on base metal mineralization in the Kalahari Copper Belt, Botswana defined by detailed lithostratigraphy and magnetic lithostratigraphyWes Hall (Invited Speaker) |
Magmatic and tectonic constraints on the formation of the unique PGE-Cu-Ni Norilsk deposits, Siberian Trap provinceNadezhda Krivolutskaya (Invited Speaker) |
2:50pm – 3:10pm |
TBD |
TBD |
*Presenting author is a student
Session 3 | Session 4 | |
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Integrating Petroleum and Minerals Systems Approaches to Sedimentary Basins |
TBD |
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8:15am – 8:45pm |
Seawater evaporation and density-driven fluid flow: Fluid source and drive for the formation of sedex zinc-lead-silver depositsPoul Emsbo (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
8:45am – 9:10pm |
Carlin-type mineralization in a sequence stratigraphic contextKevin Bohacs (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
9:10am – 9:35pm |
Fault controlled fluid flow in sediment-hosted mineral depositsJohn Walsh (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
9:35am – 10:00pm |
Yikes, my source rock is now my reservoir - The strange underworld of unconventional hydrocarbonsQuinn Passey (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
10:00am – 10:30am |
Break |
Session 3 | Session 4 | |
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Base Metals |
TBD |
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10:30am – 10:55pm |
Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits, Peru: Magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of adjacent systemsRalph Stegen (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
10:55am – 11:20am |
Geologic controls on hypogene mineralization at the Zaldivar porphyry copper-gold deposit, Escondida district, northern ChileJose Perello (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
11:20am – 12:30pm |
TBD |
TBD |
12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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Infrastructure Metals |
TBD |
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1:30pm – 1:55pm |
Discovery, geologic setting and controls on iron mineralization, South Flank, Western AustraliaJoe Knight (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
1:55pm – 2:20pm |
The geology and economics of the giant Molo graphite deposit, southern MadagascarCraig Scherba (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
2:20pm – 2:40pm |
A holistic model that combines igneous and magmatic-hydrothermal processes to explain Kiruna-type iron oxide - apatite deposits and iron-oxide - copper - gold deposits as products of a single evolving ore systemAdam Simon (Invited Speaker) |
TBD |
2:40pm – 3:00pm |
TBD |
TBD |
3:00pm – 3:30pm |
Break |
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Looking to the Future |
TBD |
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3:30pm – 3:50pm |
How will we deliver exploration success through shared values? |
TBD |
3:50pm – 4:10pm |
Who will be doing grassroots exploration and what will they be doing? |
TBD |
4:10pm – 4:30pm |
How far can we go to maximize value thought mine/project exploration? |
TBD |
4:30pm – 4:50pm |
How will we characterize ore bodies from day one and deliver value? |
TBD |
4:50pm – 5:20pm |
How will government surveys support exploration? |
TBD |
5:20pm – 5:40pm |
What will academic research look like and how will it benefit exploration? |
TBD |