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Targeting Large Magmatic Ni-Cu Discoveries from Lithospheric Structure controls
Mining Economic Explained – from Theory to Practice
Ore and More: Capital Markets and the Business of Mining
From Coal Logs to Cloud Models: A 60-Year Journey in Geomet
Mentoring for Ore Discovery
Rivers of Time: Unearthing Geological Treasures in the Lefroy Drainage System
Digging Smart: How Better Orebody Knowledge and Organisational Design Can Save Your Mine (and Your Sanity!)
Greisen deposits and their critical mineral endowment - Examples from the Erzgebirge/ Krusny hory
Critical Resources and Ore Deposits of the Future
Strata and Data: Geology meets AI
Resource Estimating Philosophies
Tunnel vision and other roadblocks to exploration
Critical commodity research at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Geoscience Australia - unlocking the potential of Australia's resources and their sustainable development.
Unlocking risk – a geotechnical perspective on sharing and mitigating risk in mining
Time-Space Evolution Of The South West African Craton: Insight Into Its Crustal Growth, Crustal Evolution And Regional Metallogeny
Bridging Geoscience and Data Science: Successes and Lessons from the Mining Industry
Novel In-Situ Geochronology Methods Applied to Ore Deposits: A Game Changer for Resolving the Temporal Evolution of Mineralisation Systems
Putting the Sedimentology back into Sediment-Hosted Metal Exploration
Mineral Exploration Management: What are the Priorities?
Revisiting Mantle Sources For Ni Sulfide Deposits
Tectonics and metallogeny of the Yilgarn Craton: new insights from the Yilgarn 2020 research project
Identifying rock types and geological processes from whole rock (4 acid digest, ICP) analyses.
Predicting The Next Giant: The Essential Role Of Geoscientists And Mineral Systems In Our World Of Rapidly Emerging AI Technology
‘Old Techniques Unearthing New Search Space’ Glacial till sampling around Red Lake, NW Ontario
Emerging Asia Metallogenic Belts
Revising the mineral province correlations of North and South Australia
What is a Variogram? An introduction to the foundational model of mineral estimation.
The Big Problem With AI: A New View On What’s Next
Orebody Intelligence: Amalgamating Data Science and Orebody Knowledge
The Future of Drilling Optimisation
A Silver Bullet for Porphyry Copper Explorers?
From Rocks to Retweets: A View into Social Media for Mining
Expanding opportunities within Intrusion-related Gold Models
Nautanen North, Geology and setting of a Swedish IOCG deposit
Systems Thinking for Geoscience: “The New Hope”
New Indicator Minerals for Nickel Sulfide Exploration
Alaska Native Corporations and mining; Also will the snowshoe hare always change color?
Exploring for Massive Sulfide Deposits at the Bottom of the Ocean
“Dirty” Little Secrets of Assay Quality Control
Money of Mine + Geohug: An “Ask Me Anything” interview about the money behind the geology….
Adventures in Core Scanning – What we’ve learned deploying XRF and hyperspectral core scanners at sites and core logging facilities
Valuating Ore Body Knowledge – The Financial Keystone for Mining Success
Half a Century On … From My First Geology Course
Uranium Exploration in the Tim Mersoï Basin, Niger
Driving Discoveries with Systematic Geoscience in the World-Class Zacatecas Silver District, Mexico
Canadian Volcanoes eh? Understanding the eruption histories of Mt. Meager and Tseax with stories from Qẃelqẃelústen & Sii Aks
A career journey through geosciences and lessons learned
Styles of Uranium Mineralization: Current Market & Exploration
Diamonds: Where, when, how... and why?
Deformation, metamorphism, and remobilization, oh my! How tectonic drama affects critical metals in massive sulphide deposits
What can geoscience communicators learn from collaborative science?
Critical Metals in Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) Deposits.
Arizona Gold & Silver’s Philadelphia Project in NW Arizona, USA: A New Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit
The GREENPEG toolset to explore for buried pegmatites hosting lithium and other strategic commodities to feed the energy transition
Orogenic gold systems of Newfoundland, Canada: making and breaking rocks through time
Battery metals from mine waste: Australia's green opportunity
The Discovery of Busang, Indonesia – The “Worlds Largest Gold Deposit” Before, During and After the BreX gold scandal
Komatiites: their geochemistry and origins
Porphyry Fertility for Giant Porphyry Exploration, Lessons from Kerman Porphyry Belt
This episode was proudly supported by Fleet Space Technologies
Understanding Mafic Magmatic Systems: Views of the Ferrar Dolerites of Antarctica and Cu-Ni-PGE bearing Troctolites of the Duluth Complex, Oh My …
Lithium in geothermal and oilfield brines: a new resource and its potential
Distinct magma evolution processes control the formation, endowments and metal ratios of porphyry Cu-Au deposits in thin and thick arcs
Does re-sampling create value? Developing a geochemical exploration model for Golden Grove VMS, Western Australia
Illuminating the Waterloo Silver Deposit using geochemistry: using your full element suite to support logging and 3D modeling.
Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine Closure - 40 years on: by the Geochemist who designed the closure.
The growth of Alaska and spatial-temporal evolution of its mineral systems
Exploring New Horizons – Magnetic Surveys with Drone Technology
In Search of Unrecognised Minerals: A Battle Between ChatGPT and Extractive Keyword Search Approaches
Sybella REO Discovery: A potential new source of the “critical” rare earths neodymium and praseodymium in Northwest Queensland
From Chaos to Prediction. Using complex systems science in exploration
Drilling Fundamentals for Geologists
Opening up the Southern Cobar Basin to new discoveries using good old fashioned geology: Big structures, extensive volcanism and hidden turbidities.
We’re speculators, show us the money
A mechanism for ore deposit formation during tectonic switching
AI, Geoscience and the mining value chain
Exploration for skarn deposits
BHP Xplor is back! Search is on for the 2024 Cohort
Ambient Noise Tomography for Mineral Exploration Uncovered
This episode was proudly supported by Datarock
Crustal Architecture and evolution of the North Australia Craton: 3D insights for a mineral systems approach to exploration
Kingsrose Mining on BHP Xplor
Smart Spectroscopy for Exploration
ESG: Fad or Fundamental?
Proterozoic unconformity-related REE in Browns Range, WA; fluid dynamics around an exhuming Archean dome
Unconformity-Type Uranium Model and the Discovery of the GMZ Deposit
BHP Xplor 2023
Off Earth Mining: The Current Status & Future
How to rock your investor story
Fusing core imagery and geochemistry to predict lithology and alteration
The Maronan Deposit – A Beginners Guide to Walking into Geological Controversies in the Mount Isa District
19 July 1985 Stava Tailings Dam Failure: What Can We Learn From It?
The Origin of the World's Most Powerful Geyser, Waimangu
Hyperspectral & Geochemistry: Better Together
Exploring the Power and Significance of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future
I look at rocks but don't have a beard!
Geology of uranium ISL deposits in Kazakhstan: The origin of 40% of worldwide uranium production.
Muon Tomography – Using Universal Forces to Unlock Subsurface Potential
Looking after your (other) rocks – talking health with geohuggers
Ultramafic rocks in volcanic arc terrains – their formation, tectonic significance and role in hosting porphyry and epithermal deposits
Uranium Exploration in the Uravan Mineral Belt, USA
Geochronology on the grain to galactic scale: How isotopes tell the deep time history of our planet, its resources and (perhaps) even our place in the cosmos.
Panel Discussion
Epithermal systems from bottom to top: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Are We Alone?
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life in the Solar System
Exploring with Airborne Gravity Gradiometry
Panel Discussions
The control-chart conundrum: assessing accuracy or precision?
The relationships between mineralization, hydrothermal alteration and magmatic conditions in porphyry systems: why it is not all about the potassic zone!
Sustainability Culture in the Mining Industry
The Exploration 'Tool Kit'
The Importance of Domaining (from a geologists' perspective...)
Mineral Systems in context: Dynamic processes and a 4D Earth
Connection: the overlooked resource
Transformational orebody knowledge workflows: The data behind the vision
The Great Debate - The origin of ancient VMS deposits
Mentioned in discussions:
This is a link that can be used to download the paper: https://www.dropbox.com/t/vP7WPP88MOLjm6sA
The reference is: Carreras J and Druguet E (2022) Folded joints at first glanc. Journal of Structural Geology.
Redefining the relationship between Geoscience and Sustainability – How geoscience enables operational and closure sustainability
Geodynamic Influences on the Volcanological, Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Evolution of the Archean Kalgoorlie Terrane LIP, Western Australia, and Implications for the Yilgarn Craton
Exploration Area Selection at the Global to Belt Scale: Evaluating multi-layer technical and non-technical risk to maximise exploration probabilities.
Geology, pre-European landscapes, and their influences on capital city centres: seeing through two centuries of urban development.
We Can’t do it Alone – Creating Value in the Resources Sector with a Multi-disciplinary Approach
The RC sampling and lab analysis protocols applied to different gold deposit types in Mineral exploration.
Unlocking the Secrets of the Lady Alma Igneous Complex
Why are the genetic models for iron oxide - copper - gold and iron oxide - apatite deposits so controversial?
Check out his entire Natural Resources, Economics and the Environment course here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRIdQEvG6qg_kyFMrsDWwa_QDX_m3I1s
And published papers and presentations here -https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8KW18uREFVcd19RVVg0Y0lsX2M?resourcekey=0-52YbXWKxfTGf7jAVK5VGLg&usp=sharing
Ed Bunker - From mines to brines: An overview of Lithium deposits and how to explore for them
In each others footsteps: IOCGs, IOAs and primary critical mineral deposits in metasomatic iron and alkali-calcic systems
This presentation is Natural Resources Canada contribution 20220376
What can a Synchrotron do for Earth Science?
Do you need a social license in exploration activities?
Stop Sampling Rubbish!
A Solution to Declining Geologist's Field Skills
Manual for Geologic Mapping Utilizing Capture Codes - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364238188_Manual_for_Geologic_Mapping_Utilizing_Capture_Codes
Distributed fibre optic sensing and its applications for imaging & rock mass response
Using diversity to prevent adversity in resource modelling
What lies beneath? How fire & ice have shaped lake floors in the Sea to Sky Region BC
Managing Geoscience Data Assets - best practice is not a pipedream
from Obscurity to Visibility, avoiding infamy
Exploration and Mining - a world of change
South Flank: Anatomy of a Martite-Goethite Ore System
The Mount Isa Story
Geology of the Cowal Gold Deposit and Discovery of the Dalwhinnie
Exploring for Gold and Copper in Areas with Tropical Laterite Cover
Teaching computers how to see rocks: combining core imagery and computer vision to extract geotechnical and geological data?
No more (mine) wasted opportunities? Australia in 2022
Leading with Empathy: Driving performance through understanding people
Alkalic intrusion-related Gold at Karari-Whirling Dervish Deposit, Archean Yilgarn Craton
Gold Exploration Under Thick Glacial Cover
Exploration Risk: A case for utilizing the Project Generator business model
Geometallurgy – Mineralogy Always Matters
So your ML model didn’t work. OR Learning from failures
Using mineral chemistry for characterizing the nature and evolution of an IOCG system
Wrap up from the AGES Conference
Camouflaging a Supergiant: magma salt interaction and polymetallic Nickel Copper deposits
How Cognitive Biases are Crippling the Mining Industry
Carlin gold deposits of Nevada: overview of their characteristics, settings, and what’s unique about them.
Effective Mineral Exploration using Seismic Methods
Palynology in exploration and the importance of having a good stratigraphic database.
Key learnings from 15 years of WAXI and future plans
Automation and Python Scripting in Resource Geology.
Halcyon days exploring in South America
Understanding & Utilising Hard Rock 2D Seismic Data in Complex Geological Environments
How the discovery of Cretaceous dinosaurs around Eromanga (Qld) led to the establishment of a world-class museum
Geometallurgy Modelling: an update for the last 10 years
Opening the Deep Learning Black Box to the Geosciences
The Tujuh Bukit Cu-Au Porphyry
Humble Beginnings of a multi-million oz Gold District, Gosowong Gold Discovery
Permeability in the Porphyry Cu environment
The West African gold targeting greatest success
Why I keep returning to South Australia: “A mineral province is only as mature as the last idea”
Global Orebody Knowledge
Snakes, Ladders and Seduction: A Resource Geologists Perilous Journey
Seismic: the Future of Mining
Stories of Successful Discoveries
Geochemical indicators of fertile porphyry systems in the Northparkes district
2D, 3D and 4D structural modelling to minimise uncertainty and risk in geological interpretation - Or how to meaningfully connect the dots with limited data
Geothermal & its role in the energy transition
Encounters with Olympic Dam: The blind men and the elephant.
Lithocap alteration, epithermal gold mineralization (or not), and the transition to the tops of porphyry deposits: dogma vs discovery
Geological Targeting in Mineral Exploration
Introduction to Seismic Structural Geology
Discovery to Definition – Solutions to the key problems in the process of discovering and defining mineral resources. Using automated logging and machine learning to remove human error in geological data collection.
Geology of Basemetal deposits in the Northwestern part of India.
Geoscience Vision for Future Resource Exploration and Extraction.
Innovating for Future Exploration Success
Is gender diversity in geoscience really a problem? Panel Discussion
Real Time Rock Knowledge in the Core Farm. Managing your sensor data and using AI to turn data into information
Archaean orogenic gold - a mineral systems approach for predictive targeting of the big ones.
Airborne Geophysics. From greenfield to paddock
Mining & the Energy Transition
BRIMM Exploration Economics
Exploration frontiers in the Territory: how new geoscience is transforming understanding of the NT’s potential.
An Introduction to Machine Learning
Practical advice and examples of electrical geophysics in mineral exploration
Peer-led suicide awareness and prevention program for the mining and resources industry
Alkaline complexes, carbonatites, rare earths; their significance in modern technology
The Loop Platform - an open source geological modelling platform: digital innovation for a greener future.
Magnetotellurics for mineral exploration: How MT can help exploration from the near-surface to the deep Earth
Fundamental basement faults, magmas and hydrothermal fluids with recent advances from the Andes.
Lithium resources in pegmatites – what’s happening in Africa?
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