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AIG NEWSQuarterly Newsletter • No 113 • August 2013

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INSIDE THIS AIG NEWS:New Structural Observations and Tectonic Model for Part of the Granites-Tanami Orogen

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R. K. Boucher1, M. A. Etheridge1, P. Hill1, L. Bagas2,

AbstractThe Granites Tanami Orogen (GTO) displays complex fold shapes and a range of fold orientations at the regional scale, typical of interference patterns in regions that have undergone multiple deformations. Indeed most structural and tectonic interpretations of the GTO comprise multiple regional deformations. There are significant parts of the GTO, however, in which outcrop observations are typified by a single cleavage-forming deformation of consistent orientation over tens of kilometres, and mesoscopic evidence for multiple deformations is rare or lacking. One such area covers the Old Pirate and Buccaneer gold deposits.. We present some structural observations from an area of about two hundred square kilometres around the deposits, and provide a tectonic interpretation that represents a novel framework for interpreting the regional structure and tectonics, as well as aspects of the widespread gold mineralisation.

IntroductionThe ABM Resources NL Twin Bonanza project area (Fig. 1) encompasses the Old Pirate and Buccaneer gold deposits and is located near the centre of the GTO on The Granites 1:250,000 map sheet (Hodgson, 1976). ABM Resources have been exploring the Twin Bonanza area since 2010 and have defined resources at the Old Pirate orogenic gold deposit and the Buccaneer intrusion-related gold system (Fig. 1). The conclusions from this study come from detailed and reconnaissance mapping of widespread but sporadic outcrop across an area of about 400 sq km around the Twin Bonanza area.

Geology of the Twin Bonanza areaOutcrop in the Twin Bonanza consists of turbidite units that have been assigned to the Tanami and Ware groups by Crispe et al. (2007). Lithologically these units are identical consisting of greywacke, and siltstone and claystone with rare chert and ferruginous shale.

1. BM Resources NL, Level 1, 141 Broadway, Crawley WA.2. Centre for Exploration Targeting, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, University

of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009.

Figure 1. Location map of the Twin Bonanza area.

New Structural Observations and Tectonic Model for Part of the Granites-Tanami Orogen 1

From Your President 3

Editor's Comment 13

Solar Magnetic Field Flip Flop 13

New Black Smoker Vents off Norway 15

Ore Sniffing Dogs – Finding New Deposits 17

SMEDG Harbour Cruise – some Photos 19

Letters to the Editor 20

ABC Q&A Program – Jakarta – Bill Hewitt's Experience 25

Drilling Seminar – WA Branch 28

Lost Piece of Pangaea Found? 29

Curtin University Mining Challenge 30

AIG Fellows – Steve Garwin 32

Education Report 33

AIG Medal 2012 33

Missing AIG Members 34

RPGeo Approvals and Applications 35

Membership Update 35

AIG NEWS No 113, August 201322 GEOLOGY

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New Structural Observations and Tectonic Model for Part of the Granites-Tanami Orogen Cont. from Page 1

Typical turbidite facies assemblages are present and key mappable indicators are coarse, amalgamated channel sands reaching 15m and mega-shales reaching 25m. The dominant facies are shale-topped sands (STS) which are typically fine grained sand grading upwards to silt and clay. Individual sand-shale packages within this facies are usually 0.3 to 3m thick. Outcropping quartz veins display strong lithological controls including bedding- and cleavage-parallel veins within shales and ladder veins on joints within sand beds. At times sands can be mapped by following ladder veins, for example in the southern part of Figure 3. Fault-related veining is rarely seen. The sedimentary units across the entire Twin Bonanza area shown in Figure 1 were originally defined as the Killi Killi Beds (Hodgson, 1976) of the Tanami Group. However, SHRIMP U-Pb dating of detrital zircon from Crows Nest (Fig. 1 & 2) yielded a maximum deposition age of 1815±13 Ma (Claoué-Long et al. 2001) which is younger than the Tanami Group and reassigned to the Ware Group. Furthermore, the Ware Group is highly magnetic (Crispe et al., 2007) and a lower metamorphic grade (Huston et al., 2007) than the Tanami Group. As a result the two are now considered separate group. Bagas et al. (2013) proposed that the characteristics of the sediments in the Old Pirate area indicated that those in the lower parts of the Tanami Group stratigraphy are older than previously thought. The Ware Group is intruded by the Buccaneer porphyritic

syenogranite, dated 1,802±8 Ma (Smith, 2001). ABM Resources have estimated an Indicated and Inferred Resource of 2.7 Moz of gold within the Buccaneer porphyry (Holden, 2013). The GTO is traditionally considered structurally complex with multiple deformation events (Ding, 2001; Vandenberg et al., 2001, Crispe et al., 2007, Huston et al., 2007). These authors have proposed at least six deformation events during the Palaeoproterozoic. Bagas et. Al. (2010, 2013) observed three Palaeoproterozoic events, two of which were major. Our, field mapping similarly reveals the structure of the Twin Bonanza to be relatively simple. This is discussed further below.

Field mapping resultsMost of the Twin Bonanza area is under regolith and only about 1% of the area contain mappable exposure in isolated outcrops (Figs. 2 & 3). Within these small areas, the outcrop typically forms short strike ridges. These have been located and mapped with hand-held GPS mapping devices. Field mapping and drilling by ABM Resources to the north and south of Crow’s Nest has revealed the source of the magnetic anomalies to be iron-altered turbiditic units assigned to the Ware Group. Previously the areas of highest magnetic response were interpreted to be igneous (Slater, 2000).Gold mineralisation at the Old Pirate deposit (Fig. 1) is hosted by bedding-parallel quartz veins that form saddles in southerly-

3AIG NEWS No 113, August 2013 3FROM YOUR PRESIDENT

From Your President - Kaylene Camuti

SINcE thE lASt ISSuE of AIG News landed in your mailboxes three months ago, AIG councillors and committee members have been involved in a wide range of AIG activities, including strategic planning meetings, conferences, student activities, and the AIG bursary program, and have also contributed to collaborative meetings with other bodies, and made submissions to government enquiries. This year’s AIG Strategic Planning Meeting, held in Sydney on a weekend in early July, offered an opportunity for AIG councillors to meet with local AIG members and NSW state branch committee members. It also gave councillors the time, during what turned out to be an intense day and a half, for wide-ranging and detailed discussion about issues affecting the future of the AIG. Several issues for discussion related to increasing the efficiency of AIG processes in response to membership growth and the growing role of the AIG, and councillors and secretariat staff have begun to make progress on these issues. In addition, AIG Council agreed to pursue new initiatives, including:- The development of a new insurance program for AIG

Members. This program will be customized for geoscientists and will offer professional indemnity and public liability policies. The development of the program is well underway and should be finalized in a few weeks.

- The formation of a National Graduate Committee of early career geoscientists to focus on the issues and concerns relevant to AIG Graduate Members.

For some time the AIG has recognized the importance of encouraging graduates to develop professional networks and to continue to advance their skills when they move from university to the workplace. The proposal to form an AIG National Graduate Committee is in recognition of the increasing significance of this issue as the Australian geoscience community becomes younger, with an increasing proportion of geoscientists in the 0 to 10 years’ experience group (Figure 1). Providing technical and professional support for this group is especially critical in the current environment, where declining job opportunities pose a risk to individuals wishing to develop skills and experience, and to the overall skills base and future potential of the geoscience profession.

The rapid deterioration of the employment environment was highlighted by the results from the recent AIG employment survey. Twelve months ago the president’s report in AIG News in August 2012 referred to the June 2012 AIG employment survey, in which survey responses indicated a combined unemployment and underemployment rate of 8.0%. Although the employment environment for geoscientists still seemed fairly strong a year ago, survey respondents reported decreased confidence in retaining and regaining employment. The latest AIG survey, from June this year, indicates the lack of confidence was well-founded. Survey responses indicate a current combined unemployment and underemployment rate of 22%, made up of 9.4% unemployment and 12.6% underemployment. Reported unemployment was highest amongst geoscientists involved in mineral exploration (11.6%) and energy exploration (8.3%)1. The relationship between the exploration industry and geoscientist employment is illustrated in the Figure 2, which shows that the rapid decline in advertised vacancies for geoscience jobs closely correlates with the decline in mineral exploration expenditure. So while the exploration industry is only one of the employment sectors for Australian geoscientists, the health of this industry sector has a major impact on the employment environment. While the employment situation does appear challenging there are initiatives underway that hold out hope for improvement in the future. Optimistically, the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Non-Financial Barriers to Mineral and Energy Resource Exploration2 will lead to improvements in the regulatory environment for explorers in Australia, and encourage investment back into the industry. Following the results from the June employment survey the AIG made a submission to the Inquiry and focused on the direct and severe impact of declining exploration activity on geoscientist employment, and the effects of this on the future efficiency and effectiveness of exploration in Australia.

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Figure 1. Age distribution of Australian Geoscientists from the 2006 and 2011 Australian Census data (Ref: 4)

Figure 2. Quarterly Mineral exploration expenditure (including coal) from September 1988 to March 2013 (constant dollars), with Geoscience Internet

Job Vacancies from March 2006. (Ref: 5,6).


plunging, upright chevron folds (Bagas et al., 2013). Bedding-parallel quartz veins are hosted by mega-shale units, recognised to be important in Victoria (Boucher & Rossiter, 2010). ABM Resources NL estimated an Indicated and Inferred Resource of 0.7 Moz of gold at Old Pirate (Holden, 2013). Old Pirate is within a large, south-plunging anticline defined by a marker chert horizon (Fig. 1), extensive stratiform quartz veins and interbedded shales

Figure 2. Field mapping at Crows Nest. Outcrop trends reveal potentially complex fold patterns. However, only a single dominant north-south cleavage is seen.

Figure 3. Field mapping at Vampire West. Outcrop trends reveal similar structural features to Crows Nest (Fig. 2), including a single, dominant north-south cleavage.

and sandstones. The 5cm marker chert outcrops strongly and can be followed for several kilometres, defining the southerly plunging folds. It reappears north of a palaeochannel and along strike near the access track to Wilsons Camp (Fig. 1). Diamond-drillhole core from Old Pirate reveals a single dominant, axial-planar cleavage. The simple upright fold geometry and single cleavage indicate that the Old Pirate structure formed from deformation in a single direction.


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Detailed field mapping at Crows Nest (Fig. 2) and Vampire West (Fig. 3) reveals more complex folding than seen at Old Pirate. The bedding form lines in both areas would indicate refolded folds. However, the dominant cleavage is upright and striking north-south, as at Old Pirate. The cleavage is locally divergent and convergent near folds and refracts from silts into sands. Veins commonly exploit these zones of weakness.Crows Nest is dominated by a steeply northwesterly plunging, upright open fold (Fig. 2). Smaller folds at right angles are present in the northeastern corner of the map. There is no axial planar cleavage related to either of these folds. The dominant cleavage is upright, trends to the north and is unrelated to the two fold trends. This could suggest that there is evidence for at least three deformation events at Crows Nest. An alternate explanation is that the overall geometry is fold-thrust related. The open folding represents the hanging wall anticline and the beds are crumpled close to an interpreted thrust fault which runs along a linear valley. The folding could be syn-depositional, which would account for the lack of cleavage development. The north-trending cleavage is a result of later east-west compression, as seen at Old Pirate. A similar architecture is seen at Vampire West (Fig. 3). A single, dominant upright north-trending cleavage overprints a more complex fold pattern beneath. On the western limb of the hanging wall anticline, the cleavage reveals both “Z” and “S” vergences enticing the geologist to invoke multiple deformations to account

Figure 4. Conceptual block model of the features seen in the Twin Bonanza field area. A series of north-directed thrusts have been folded by east-west compression. Old Pirate sits within one of the east-west anticlines.

for it. However, just as at Crows Nest, it is proposed that syn-depositional fold-thrusting could have established the fold shape which was later subjected to east-west shortening and cleavage development.Field data from Old Pirate, Crows Nest and Vampire West indicates that the Twin Bonanza area is a folded fold-thrust belt. A simplified


block model to demonstrate this is shown in Figure 4. The north-directed thrusting is potentially syn-depositional. The only demonstrable genuine post-depositional tectonic deformation event is east-west compression producing upright folding and accompanying axial planar cleavage. These tectonic fabrics correlate with the DGT01 deformation event of Bagas et al. (2008), which are characterised by northerly trending folds associated with a well-developed SGT01 cleavage and thrust faults.Reconnaissance mapping across the whole of the Twin Bonanza area in Figure 1, and in some places beyond, has found that folds and bedding-cleavage intersections associated with the N-S striking regional cleavage plunge at 30° to 60° to the south in over 90% of the outcrops observed. The only significant exceptions are at Crows Nest and Vampire West, where the N-S cleavage overprints an earlier set of folds and interpreted thrusts with no significant cleavage development, as described above.

Interpretation of Field RelationshipsThe field observations indicate that the dominant, approximately N-S trending folds and associated cleavage were superimposed on a turbidite sequence with following characteristics.• It had an overall dip to the south at an average of about 40° across

an area that was at least 40km from E to W, and 20km from N to S; this is the only reasonable explanation for the consistent ~40° plunge of the N-S folds.

• It contained rare, relatively open, approximately E-W trending folds, probably mainly antiforms, that lacked a significant axial plane cleavage. Even rarer zones of tighter folding and faulting were also present, also without cleavage development.

• There is no observable increase in metamorphic grade or consistent change in lithology or facies from south to north, across what was at least 20km of homoclinal sequence dipping at ~40°, with a resulting ‘true’ thickness of about 15km.

These observations strongly suggest that the Tanami and Ware groups in the Twin Bonanza area were deformed into a N-verging thrust and rare fold stack prior to the E-W shortening. The absence of a cleavage associated with this event suggests that it took place at low temperature. A N-S section through the Twin Bonanza area may have looked something like that shown in Figure 5. After the E-W compression (N-S folding) event, structural patterns such as in Figure 4, which resemble those mapped in the Old Pirate area, could result.

Figure 5. Schematic section through the Twin Bonanza area representing the north verging thrust system identified from field mapping.



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The early south-to-north thrusting and stacking event postulated here could have formed in a conventional N-S compressional tectonic event. However, there is another tectonic setting that is well documented in a number of petroleum-bearing Phanerozic Basins, which could explain development of thrust-fold stacking at shallow crustal depths and in semi-lithified sedimentary sequences.

Toe thrust modelHesthammer & Fossen (1999) described gravitational collapse structures in the North Sea, by which gravity-driven extensional faulting and collapse in a deltaic environment translates into compressional features down dip in deep marine facies. On a differing scale, the process is somewhat analogous to a landslide. Corredor et al. (2005) mapped out an excellent example associated with the Niger Delta. This example has been simplified in the model in Figure 6a. In this example, the weight of the sediments accumulating on the delta drives normal faulting and extension on the shelf, which translates into shortening, thrusting and folding down slope and onto the basin floor. The resulting compressional faults are defined as toe thrusts. It would be expected that deltaic and marginal marine sediments and carbonate units would dominate half-grabens and that turbidites would dominate the toe thrust environment. Examples of toe thrusts have been mapped in petroleum provinces world-wide including Australia (Krassay & Totterdell, 2003), South Africa (Paton et al., 2008), Indonesia (Saller et al., 2008) and Morocco (Dunlap et al., 2010).

If later compression were to shorten the example section in Figure 6a and the existing structures exploited, then there would be continued, progressive thrusting on the toe thrust faults and inversion of the extensional faults to create reverse faults and accompanying folding (Fig. 6b). Good examples of inverted half grabens are known across Proterozoic Australia, such as the Davenport Ranges near Tennant Creek or in the Mount Isa area (eg. Betts et al., 2006). However, the toe thrust model has not been previously applied to Proterozoic sequences in Australia.The thrust geometries identified in the field (Figs. 2 & 3) are significantly smaller than the toe thrusts shown in Figure 6a. This would indicate that the structures mapped in the field are minor thrusts off much larger structures if the model holds. Northwards-directed thrusting would indicate that the accompanying deltaic system and basin margin would have originally been to the south of Twin Bonanza towards the Willowra Lineament of Bagas et al. (2008, 2013).

Implications for gold mineralisation in the GTOMost of the economic gold mineralisation in the GTO is within or very closely associated with quartz veins. The Old Pirate deposit is an excellent example. However, detailed observation and sampling of quartz veins across the Twin Bonanza area shown in Figure 1 has demonstrated that the majority of quartz veins contain little or no gold. It has also shown that most of the high-grade gold is in veins or parts of veins that have been fractured, re-veined and/or

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recrystallised. This has been interpreted to indicate that the gold was introduced after most of the quartz veins formed, and following the E-W shortening that produced the obvious folds and cleavage in the area.In the Old Pirate deposit, mineralised stratiform quartz veins that range from about 50cm to 5m thick have been traced for 200m up to 1000m along strike, within shale units. It also appears that the stratiform veins were folded by the E-W shortening event. So how did such thin stratiform veins extend over such large areas in a single shale bed? One possibility is that they formed during the early toe-thrust event as dewatering structures. They would have been localised in the thicker, overpressured shale units, cutting up stratigraphy and eventually to the sea-floor along the toe thrusts. The interpretation of the Old Pirate structure in Figure 4 represents toe thrusts soling into the thickest shale unit in the local sequence.

ConclusionsObservations in the Twin Bonanza area of the Granites-Tanami Orogen suggest that Proterozoic turbidites are candidates for syn-depositional thrust faulting and folding. This would provide structural complexity prior to any genuine orogenesis. Such thrust-related fold geometries have been mapped within the Twin Bonanza area at Crows Nest and Vampire West. The folds don’t contain their own obvious cleavage to indicate they arise from genuine tectonic compression. There is only a single, overprinting cleavage that is superimposed on these folds at a later time. This upright north-trending cleavage is dominant across the entire Twin Bonanza area and is axial planar to chevron folds, including Old Pirate. It is therefore possible to conclude that the structural features at Twin Bonanza were a result of only one orogenic event. Syn-depositional folds and faults provide structural complexity that appears to be a result of a complicated deformation history. The GTO is traditionally considered a multiply deformed terrain with at least 5 deformation events. It is proposed the Twin Bonanza area is a window that did not experience the same deformation history following the DGT01 event. The toe thrust model explains that reactivated thrusts are

Figure 6a. Simplified toe thrust model based on a section through the Niger Delta (modified from Corredor et al., 2005). Gravitational collapse of the thick deltaic sediments creates extensional faults that are translated into thrust faults in the deep marine sediments. Figure 6b shows resulting structures arising from postdepositional compression. Progressive deformation will occur along existing toe thrusts. However, inversion of extensional faults will result in reverse faulting and folding.



expected structural styles likely to be seen in turbidite units. Similarly deltaic and marginal marine sediments are likely to host inverted half grabens. pp

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11AIG NEWS No 113, August 2013 FROM YOUR PRESIDENT CONTINUED

While the Productivity Commission Inquiry is focused on non-financial barriers to exploration, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) is proposing the introduction of a Mineral Exploration Tax Credit (METC) to stimulate investment in Australian exploration, and in particular, greenfields exploration. For those AIG members interested in exploration, the AMEC web site provides further information about the METC proposal and the background financial modelling3.Although much of the recent activity has been focused on employment and related issues, AIG state branches have also been involved in organizing conferences, seminars, workshops, and student careers events. There are lots of functions – technical and social – planned for the rest of this year, so keep in contact with your local branch for news of activities in your area. I look forward to catching up with some of you at the Mines and Wines conference in September. pp1. http://www.aig.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=312:jun e-2013-employment-survey-results&catid=39:geoscience-news&Itemid=3392. http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/inquiry/resource-exploration3. http://www.amec.org.au/news/media-releases/tax-credit-essential-for-the-mines-

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ObSErvAtIONS Of thE SuN are suggesting that there might be a complete solar magnetic field reversal during the next 3 to 4 months, signalling the start of the next 11 year solar sunspot cycle, as shown in the accompanying diagram showing the Solar Power fields.This reversal will mark the end of Solar Cycle 24 and the start of Cycle 25. The cause of this magnetic reversal remains obscure, because it requires that the solar internal dynamo to reorganise itself and reverse polarity. How is not known but the effect ripples outwards to the heliosphere via the solar current sheet. This current sheet originates at the solar equator and while the current itself is small, some 1x 10^-9

amps/m2, it flows through a region 10,000 km thick and billions of kilometres wide — a sort of solar Faraday motor. All the planets are periodically immersed in this equatorial current sheet, including the Earth, and it affects the space weather around the planets.It is fairly obvious that the solar peak for the present solar cycle is somewhat subdued, and the weakest in 100 years, according to the NASA site, space.com. pp

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Editor's Comment

Yet again AIG Members employed in the exploration sector are hunkering down for another period of inactivity caused by familiar economic circumstances - another recession and it's time to work out the cause of these debillitating periods of economic stasis. The so-called mining boom is precisely that, a mining boom, not an exploration boom. Why we needed to find more iron ore and coal deposits, and then mine them in addition to the existing operations is puzzling, given the now excessive lead-up times from discovery to production. But the stasis in mineral exploration isn't purely economic, it's also due to an explosion of social engineering in which exploration activities are starting to be micro-managed by the state governments, including over-zealous environmental approval regimes and the imposition of the "social license", what ever that phrase could mean.There is yet another call for more stimulus spending by the economically illiterate, Keynesians if you need it spelled out. Our exploration booms are primarily the result of monetary credit expansion where new money is printed to pay for government outlays, to then slowly wash down into the markets where it often appears as high risk exploration capital. The most recent trend seems now to involve earning profits from capital growth, rather than from production, and is one factor explaining the dearth of risk capital. But the real problem is the continued support for Keynesian economic theory, because let's face it, while the stimulus spending did manage to keep unemployment in Australia below 5% it hasn't created any recovery either; much like the continued support of the climate models that now too are being contradicted by natural, in stead of economic, reality. It is my belief we will be entering a period of severe economic stasis lasting a few years, depressing our living standards for a very long time to come. It's the price we pay for the subsistence economy. pp

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15AIG NEWS No 113, August 2013 MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE MAKING

New Black Smoker Vents Found in North Sea off Norway

fIvE NEW vOlcANIc vent fields have been discovered in Norwegian national waters between Jan Mayen island and loki's castle (see map) during a survey trip by the rv GO Sars during July 2013. Two of these were located on the seafloor while the other three were located based on anomalies in the water column, presumably vents close to the sea surface (20 meters below) and which could form new volcanic islands in the near future. Loki's Castle was discovered during 2008 and comprises chimneys, or black smokers, venting 300°C hot metalliferous fluids on mounds of sulphides up to 250 meters wide at the base and up to 90 meters across the top. The active chimneys are black in colour, and covered by white bacterial mats while the older smokers are mottled red in colour, due to oxidation. The vents are at depths ranging from 100 to 2500 meters and add two centimeters a year to the surrounding seabed.Like other hydrothermal vents, Loki’s Castle is home to highly unusual flora and fauna. In a recent statement, Pederson of the University of Bergen explained that no one yet knows much about what kinds of organisms survive there or how the black smoker was formed, or its age and history. Twenty new animal species have been found there already and moves are afoot to propose the area as a National Park.

There is concern the metal deposits formed around the vents will prove irresistible to the mining industry, as there are already indications of interest in the deposits, with deep ocean mining proposals on the horizon. pp

AIG NEWS No 113, August 201316 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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A Nose for New Mineral Deposits: the Ore-sniffing Dogs Transforming Mine Location

thE kEEN NOSES Of sniffer dogs are proving so successful at locating ore that even the mining giants are sitting up and taking notice. berenice baker talks to Peter bergman, geologist and cEO of the Swedish company OreDog, about his plans to turn the canine skills into a multi-million dollar global industry providing exploration services for the mining industry while offering a Google-like working environment for staff.Berenice Baker: What is the history of working dogs in the mining

industry?Peter Bergman: In the 60s and 70s Sweden, Russia and Finland were

the foremost players in the game of ore dogs, but they were only run by state agencies searching for nickel for the steel industry. The best people were considered to come came from Finland because they used just a geologist and an ore dog, and didn't need a separate dog trainer.

When the metal and steel industry went belly-up because of the financial crisis at the beginning of the 80s, these countries abandoned all exploration and this technique died out, more or less. I just finished my geology degree then but geologists couldn't get work anywhere, so I went into IT.

But I remembered all about ore dogs and I started experimenting with some dogs to see if they could do this. One year ago I started doing this professionally.

At what stage is your OreDog business?PB: At the moment I'm recruiting people who will attend our one-

year training camp in Sweden for OreDog drivers, where we have experts in different kinds of search. At the moment we have three dogs that are fully trained and certified, and we hope to have ten by autumn.

Other than nickel, what other metals can they find?PB: The dogs can find all sorts of sulphide ore, whether it is zinc,

copper or nickel, but we discovered they can also find oxide ore. We have just discovered a large deposit of arsenian pyrite, a gold ore, but every week we find they can sense a different type of metal in combination with sulphides.

Where in the world does OreDog operate?PB: To date we have been concentrating on Sweden and Scandinavia,

but we are setting up shop now in Arizona with the cooperation of an American company. We're considering expanding into China, middle Africa - Burundi, Angola - and we're looking into starting the first ore dog companies in Australia, Iraq and Iran.

We can travel anywhere, but because of quarantine laws in some areas you need domestic dogs. Australia is a very dangerous area not suitable for the types of Arctic dogs that we have here. They can work in Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, with no problem, and they can sleep outside in minus 30 degrees.

Those same dogs won't work as well when it's 50 degrees plus and you have poisonous snakes that they don't know what to do with. We're going to train dogs locally using ex-military experts who have been training bomb dogs, and because we work in areas where there may be land mines we can use those skills too.

Even when we are training we are looking at places where we find interesting prospects and build a resource we can sell to exploration companies, helping them find ore.

What breeds of dog do you use for sniffing out mineral deposits?PB: I have a German Shepherd, but we have used the Australian

working Koolie and the Malinois, which is a smaller police type

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Dogs and their handlers are trained to locate copper and nickel ore deposits for mining companies at a camp in Sweden.

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dog. You can't use a Chihuahua; you have to have something that could work in the field, and not get eaten up by rats.

We don't have to use the same breeds as the police or military - for example, poodles are really good scent dogs, but maybe they don't look so professional...

We will provide German Shepherds for our staff from our own kennel of professional dogs that come from the police dog academy. But if a geologist wants to have their own dog, we will test them and see if they can do the job.

How do you go about training the dogs to work in mineral exploration?PB: You train them to sense certain smells that come from ore. We

take ore samples from different mines and areas where we find the ore, and then we train them on that. Right now my dog can sense 20 - 30 different types of ore. They can discover an ore body that is as much as 12m under the ground.

What happens after the dogs find a nickel, copper or gold ore deposit?PB: We have just made a great discovery in north Sweden and we'll

come back and do a proper search over the vast area where we have found boulders. We will locate exactly where the ore body is using the ore dogs, geology instruments and drilling, so we make a brief feasibility study to determine if it's a good resource, then we sell it to a mining company.

How do you see the OreDog business growing in the next couple of years?PB: I expect we will have two or three daughter companies in

Australia, South America and Africa. The company will have 200 to 300 employees and about 200 dogs, with each geologist having two or three dogs, all finding ore for exploration companies.

Do you have a projection of profits over the next few years?PB: I would predict that people who invest in our company now will

be very rich. We have our own tenements [the pegging or notification of exploration licences] and I would guess 80% of our income will come from selling off our resources and 20% will come from working for the company. We will develop extended services using not just the ore dogs but also IT technology to improve the exploration process. We're also looking for investors, and we want to make at least 10% - 15% available for crowd-funding so ordinary people can invest in the company, not just big shots. We're only selling off 30% tops in the company and our staff will own a lot of it and also have a profit share.

It's quite a different type of company when it comes to our work policies. One third of our staff's time will be doing OreDog consulting for different companies, one third of the time will be training of the ore dogs and of themselves, and one third will be free for their own projects. It leaves a lot of time for people to discover their talents and do their own thing - sort of a Google way of working! pp

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19AIG NEWS No 113, August 2013 SMEDG CRUISE

SMEDG Cruise- Sydney Harbour

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AIG NEWS No 113, August 201320 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Professor Robert Carter appears to have been summarily dismissed from his adjunct staff position at James Cook University (JCU) for, what seems, his politically-incorrect views on climate change.Bob Carter came to JCU in 1981, inheriting a department that had been built into a thriving teaching centre of economic geology by the legendary Willard (Bill) Lacy. Though a palaeontologist and stratigrapher by training, Bob understood the challenge of building on this foundation. Many in the mining industry will recall his contributions, including the start-up of the Economic Geology Research Unit, support for the emblematic JCU coursework Masters degree in economic geology, formation of the National Key Centre in Economic Geology, and his service on the boards of many national committees, including the AMF, ARC’s national geology grants panel (as chairman), the National Marine Grants committee, and the Australian Office of the Ocean Drilling Program. Indeed, under his leadership JCU’s Geology Department research funding grew from about $20,000 a year to almost $3 million a year, with graduate student and postdoctoral research activities growing apace in parallel.After his 18 years of tenured service, giving his all to the above, and more, Professor Carter stepped aside from his position as head of Geology Department in 1998, on matters not related to science but on ethics of management. He accepted voluntary retirement soon afterwards but kept his university links via the mechanism of

an honorary Adjunct Research Fellowship. This privilege was progressively white-anted to a position where, recently, a sympathetic colleague offered him one hour a week, paid from his own funds, to supervise a graduate student, an arrangement that would at least have retained his library privileges and email facility. But these last tenuous links were the target of the same veto that accomplished Carter’s separation from JCU, and his distinguished academic career there has now been terminated by abrupt fiat. These are Taliban road-bomb tactics. Carter has not only been denied natural justice, but the process of his removal is also, and clearly, contrary to the values of what any university should stand for, and is in clear breach of the principles of academic freedom and scholarship.It is no coincidence that Professor Carter sees himself as qualified to contribute to the climate debate. He is a marine geologist with extensive research experience of studying ancient environments, including past climates, and the marine sediments that he and others are keen to study probably hold more clues on past climates than any other geological repository on earth. Indeed Carter’s previous work and personal research is part of the reason why JCU has in the past enjoyed recognition as a significant Australian centre of marine research.One would have thought that an academic institution would welcome putting itself in a position where it could give governments the good news that global warming caused by carbon dioxide from

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whatever source, or indeed from whatever other cause, might be less harmful than predicted by failing computer models. But that seems not to be the case and I can only conclude that JCU does not welcome good news and that this very unsavoury action is being driven by a political agenda. This is very sad for academic excellence and a loss for the country, but it is not surprising because research in other government-funded institutions like CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, and other universities (all of which might otherwise also uncover good news on climate change), is also being stymied by a patent bias towards carbon dioxide alarmism. Indeed it is blatantly obvious that the government and its agencies are funding only bad news research that supports its political agenda and that expert persons who are looking instead for sound and balanced evidence, including many retired scientists of long experience, fend for themselves, in the national interest. This is all very ironic because Professor Carter’s oft and clearly stated position is not that we should ignore the dangers of climate change but rather that we should respond by adaptation instead of fruitless mitigation – saving hundreds of billions of dollars that might better be diverted to health and education.I write this letter with a feeling of deep frustration because I see nowhere to turn. I can’t begin to imagine how Bob Carter himself must be feeling. Hitherto I would have turned to the Geological Society of Australia as custodian of earth sciences but this

institution has already demonstrated that it is more interested in the politics of the global warming issue than it is in the science.Sadly and even worse, the Australian Academy of Science is also suspect because its publication The Science of Climate Change – Questions and Answers (August 2010) delivers a blatantly one-sided and propagandist summary which relies, inter alia, on Michael Mann’s now-discredited ‘Hockey Stick’ and scary warnings of oceans becoming more acidic, notwithstanding that ocean pH hovers around 8.1. Such biased and misleading contributions only guarantee corruption of the language of debate.I am desperately sad that the politics of climate science are destroying the scientific method which gave us the Age of Enlightenment and all the technological advances that came with it. Science has always been based on evidence; evidence trumps everything else, especially the flawed computer models that can’t even explain the climate as we experience it now, let alone forecast its progress over the next 100 years.Climate science sits squarely in the purview of geology as a discipline and hence my letter, which is intended not only to show support for Professor Carter, but also to inform the earth-science community of the sinister events playing out behind the scenes. The mining industry is also going through difficult times because of government ineptitude and its practitioners have higher priorities

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than following the climate change so-called debate, because a proper debate it is not.Amongst other actions that it might consider, AIG should ask our national broadcaster, the ABC, to mend its ways. This tax-funded institution has, at the centre of its charter, an obligation to present issues of national interest in a fair and balanced way, which it has never done for any major environmental issue, notwithstanding that it pays a resident scientist, albeit one who links ‘climate sceptics’ with paedophilia. From my own experience such representation will almost certainly have no effect, but it will at least put the ABC’s gross negligence on the public record, and this might serve as useful information for future governments. I feel that something needs to be done before we flush the scientific method and hundreds of billions more dollars down the S-bend in completely futile and arrogant attempts to ‘stop climate change’ and before more honest scientists are sacrificed on the altar of environmental extremism.To conclude, this question must to be asked – over and over again. ‘For how much longer does global warming have to not rise for the warmists to concede that perhaps they got this wrong’ – because there has been no global warming for the last 15 years, since 1998.

Aert Driessen

Dear Editor,

In view of the decline of the minerals boom and consequent decline in availability of work for exploration geologists and the recent $15 million the government intends to spend on re-training the about-to-be-redundant workers at Ford's manufacturing plant, I have begun to wonder about priorities in government subsidies for private enterprise. It would appear from a throwaway line on the ABC News that successive Australian governments have spent $1 billion on maintaining Ford's willingness to build its increasingly uncompetitive cars in Australia.I have also noted that Toyota and General Motors Holden have received large handouts, the last that I heard of being $350 million for Holden not long ago, and Holden still won't guarantee their continued presence in Australia. Yet we complain about “dole-bludgers” and we pay our pensioners a pittance.At, say, $75,000 pa per geologist, $365 million works out at around 5000 man-years geology. $1 billion works out at a trifle more (almost 15,000 man years).Our State and Territory Geological Surveys are under-resourced and, in particular, the Tasmanian State Geological Survey (Mineral Resources Tasmania) is fading away by attrition due to age and the failure to recruit young staff in a timely manner. In Tasmania, the rot began back in the early 1990's when a Thatcherite State Treasury sought to make it pay its way in the manner of a corner shop, something no geological survey can ever do.

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Bill Hewitt’s Q&A Experience – Jakarta, 4 July 2013

ON MONDAy AftErNOON 1 July 2013, a friend emailed me the Q&A registration hyperlink, I immediately applied, and very soon after was officially invited to be one of the audience for Q&A Jakarta 4 July, 2013, the show’s first ever overseas production. Q&A Program Producer carol Ayoub also sent an email in both English and Indonesian inviting all audience members to submit one question. Busy at work and at home, I struggled to draft a question on a controversial subject framed in the euphemistic, non-accusatory manner I normally use within Indonesia. I eventually submitted a question about corruption, but it sank without trace - deservedly so, I now realise. Obviously, I had not watched enough Q&A and had not realised this show pulls no punches. Corruption was declared as an obvious fact within the first few minutes of the show, and the video question from Western Sydney kicked Javanese politeness completely off the show. False smiles wiped off panellists’ faces, honest discussion of very sensitive issues then ensued. Full marks to Q&A for courage.Back to the story, I arrived at the Metro TV complex in a north western suburb of Jakarta just a few minutes before the designated deadline, “no later than 5.30pm”, and was amazed to find the foyer area absolutely teeming with mostly youngish Indonesians and Aussies, hundreds strong, lining up at the buffet or milling around eating and chatting. This went on for quite a while, during which I

met various friends, including one long-lost former colleague not heard of since 1992. (And who still remains unknown, it seems - Ed.)At last, someone made an announcement, unintelligible above the excited chatter, but enough to trigger a stampede up the escalators and into the Grand Studio. I got in there early enough to get a good seat half way back in the centre tier, with a good view of the podium. I already knew the Aussie couple on my right, the WA Trade Representative and her partner, and the young Indonesian girl on my left turned out to be quite interesting too. She makes a living as a “freelancer ghostwriter” (it’s on her business card) for politicians and business people, writes short stories for magazines, and “really likes watching Insiders”. Of what interest the ABC’s Insiders could possibly be to anyone other than an Aussie political junkie I cannot imagine, but there it is. And the ABC’s reporter in Jakarta was sitting in the row in front of me, one seat to my left, taking notes throughout.The studio is pretty impressive, seating probably around 500 I guess. There were three TV cameras near the front, on huge mobile supports that seemed to float up, down, around, forward and back at the lightest touch from the operator. There was also a camera in the mezzanine behind the panel’s table, almost invisible in the dark, and other cameras on the sides, but I didn’t notice them at the time. The camera operators were all Aussies, I think, but the portable mike guys were all Indonesian.

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When the audience, 50-50 Indonesian and Australian, was eventually settled, an Aussie crew member introduced himself as Rahman and gave us various instructions, mainly how, when he started to clap as Tony Jones came in and took his seat, we also had to clap and keep clapping until Rahman stopped. An Indonesian translator was on hand, but like most of us not used to being translated, Rahman went on far too long before giving the translator his turn, which resulted in some humorous moments and lightened up proceedings considerably.Then another Aussie in trendy black coat and skivvy came out and introduced himself as the Q&A producer. As he was clearly not Carol Ayoub, he must be the other producer. Anyway, he gave us a lot more instructions about various things, like no photos during the show, all phones to be completely off, not just on silent, etc, etc. Then Rahman started to clap, Tony Jones came in and sat down at the table, and the producer asked those who had been selected to ask a question to stand up one by one. This was to see where each was sitting so Tony would know where to look at the appropriate time. I didn’t see him take notes, so can only assume he has a most fantastic memory. It also enabled the camera operator on the mezzanine to ensure each questioner was in the camera’s line of sight and sufficiently well lit. Two questioners had to move to better seats. When that was all done, Tony went outside again and the producer gave more instructions, reminding us about good manners and politeness towards all panellists. He got a few laughs as well, reading out some tweets just in, such as, from an Indonesia girl in the audience, “My God, where did all these Australians come from?” We are normally more dispersed, it seems!At last, the panel members came in, one by one, introduced to the audience as they found their seats, and we all waited expectantly.

Then Rahman started clapping again, we all joined in, Tony made his entrance, the producer counted down to the start, and away we went, live across Australia! Again Tony amazed me with his memory, introducing each panellist in turn without fault or falter, in spite of some very long and difficult Indonesian names. I saw no evidence of a teleprompter. His feats of memory, his quick-witted interjections, and his deft handling of proceedings forced me to admit to myself, somewhat shamefaced, that what I had always regarded as his insufferable smugness might actually be well justified by his brilliance.During the show, screens in front, left and right, displayed captions in Indonesian instantaneously summarising the points being made. There was also a screen on my left displaying the show as televised, and I watched that from time to time, particularly when someone was asking a question. The whole audience, myself definitely included, listened in rapt attention throughout, totally engrossed from start to finish.At the end, when Tony wound up the show and thanked us for our participation, I felt I shared a moment of regret with everyone in the audience, wishing this fantastic experience could have gone on for another hour or more. But it was over, everyone just streamed for the exits, and all of us simply went home. As I walked out, I switched my phone back on and read the sms from Melbourne: “I saw you several times.” Thanks – I enjoyed knowing that!!! The sms’s from Perth came hours later as it was being screened in the west, WA yet again deprived of seeing TV live.I was very impressed with the whole production, seemingly so easy and effortless. Aussie informality at its familiar best. Yet I know that, behind the scenes, the organisation and coordination that went into achieving such an event in Jakarta must have been incredibly protracted and intense, with some very nerve-wracking moments along the way. Congratulations to the Q&A team and their Jakarta counterparts! As one final very nice touch, Carol Ayoub bobbed up again on Friday morning with an email to audience members, thanking us for our participation, and providing a hyperlink so we could watch the show again, this time on the screen. Thank you Carol, very thoughtful! I have now joined another million or so Aussies and become a Q&A fan. pp

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SOME Of thE DrIllING industry’s leading contractors - and long-term Australian Drilling Industry Association (ADIA) members and supporters shone a light on the current challenges (and opportunities) for exploration and directional drilling at a one-day seminar in Perth during March.Graeme Wallis (Wallis Drilling), Murray Pollock (DDH1 Drilling), Jamie Seed (Challenge Drilling) and Kent Swick (Swick Mining) presented papers on a range of drilling methods and the variables (ground conditions, time, money and resources) which impact on the efficacy of different types of drilling. In addition, ADIA CEO Simon Fitzgerald presented the case for formal recognition of drillers’ qualifications which covered waterwell licensing; ANZSCO codes; rig management modules; accredited driller prerequisites; and the benefits to drillers, employers, clients and the broader community. The seminar - ‘Drilling, The cutting edge - maximising value with cost effective drilling’ - was also an excellent chance for drilling contractors and geology professionals to mingle and talk shop in a relaxed atmosphere. Other speakers included Gary Cavanough from DET CRC; Department of Mines and Petroleum WA; and ADIA supplier members Digirock, ioGlobal, AMC Drilling Fluids & Products and Prospectors Pty Ltd.

The ADIA had an exhibition booth on the day to promote membership and was represented by Simon Fitzgerald, Sharon Wallace and Christine Young. The seminar was hosted by the WA branch of the AIG (Australian Institute of Geoscientists) and sponsored by ioGlobal, Digirock, Prospectors, DDH1 Drilling, Gyro Australia and the Australian Drilling Industry Association (ADIA). pp

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Curtin University Mining Challenge

The actual mining challenge was above my expectations because the level of skills I have gained seems quite ravishing. I really enjoyed my time and I think that I have finally learnt that patience is the key to success. The challenge did relate to mining and showed us a brief perspective of how one of the biggest industries in the world evolves. This was a great opportunity for both us high school kids and the primary kids because it involved both mental thinking and hands-on-work. When I first got accepted for the mining games out task didn't seem difficult at all however you shouldn't judge a book by its cover as the actual games was hard to manage. Personally I think the dry run was a great idea because it helped us to understand the time and effort needed to build a tunnel. Another reason that this event helped us develop more skills was because we got to see and understand different ideas and different point of views which made us all think differently and apply a variety of strategies. It doesn't matter whether you don't want to or want to achieve a career in the line of work because the mining challenge is basically about taking risks and learning new skills. To be honest, I myself am not deeply interested in this industry but I still think that this is an achievement to be proud of and I will always remember this experience.

By Shivangi, Year 9 student

Last week on the 28th on June, Kent Street held a mining challenge that Curtin University had organised which involved 7 different primary schools to compete in the challenge. Those schools were Kensington, Carlisle, East Victoria Park, Victoria Park, Millen and

Collier primary schools. This challenge wouldn't have run smoothly without the help of Sheldon, Holly, Emily, Ms. Urbaniak and the staff at Kent Street High School and Curtin University.I was one of the year 9 mentors for Kensington Primary School and along with me were the other two mentors Carter and Ben. They were two of the best people to work along with and we worked really well as a team and they made the day even more fun and enjoyable.On the day of the mining challenge, I was very excited and couldn't wait for the day to go ahead and start. I got up early in the morning and left the house. We had to get to school pretty early because there was a lot of setting up to do in the oval and the gym. As soon as you got to school it was hands on work for the rest of the day.The students from Kensington arrived around 08:30 and as soon as they walked through the gym we got them dressed up in their overalls, hard hats, footwear, goggles and masks. When they all got all dressed up, we sat down in the gym and waited for the assembly to start. The assembly was addressed by Professor Lyn Beasley, who is WA's Chief Scientist. She introduced us into mining, our world in the future and science developments that are happening around Western Australia. Soon after that, they cut the ribbon which officially opened the mining challenge.We went outside to the oval and started our long day. All the schools that were competing had to build a tunnel from scratch. They had stakes, tarp, duct tape, measuring tape, chairs and scissors etc. The whole group of students had to work together to measure out the tunnel

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we could only give instructions to them. As they were working hard on building the tunnel, there were breaks for morning tea and lunch which was all provided for by Curtin University.After building the tunnel, the students had an ore brick race in which they had to get four ore bricks in and out of the tunnel using a rope pulley system and there were competing against other schools at the same time. Kensington Primary won that race and the students were all excited and proud of the efforts they had put into working together.The year 6's from Kensington Primary were of the nicest bunch of students to work with. There were 23 of them and they all co-operated so well, worked together and listened so well to their instructions. Ever since they got there, they didn't argue with each other and always respected me, Carter, Ben, their peers and their teachers.During the rest of the day, the students got to run around their tunnels, put lighting and ventilations inside it. At the end, they all got to smash and process ore bricks; in the ore bricks it contained jewels, washers and fossils. It was very interesting to watch the kids find the jewels, play around with the sand and water, use a mill to break it down even further and it was goof to see them having fun and enjoying themselves.It had been a very long and tiring day, the mining games had finished and all the participants, teachers and mentors had been called inside the gym because they were going to announce the winner of this challenge but before that, all the students and mentors that participated got medals and some extra special people got certificates for being a good role model and leader. Soon after that they announced the top 3 schools in the challenge and the first was Kensington Primary, all the students, teachers and the three mentors and me, Carter and Ben

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cheered for our school. They received a cheque and the money in the cheque was all towards providing the school with science equipment. It was the end of the day soon after that and the participants had to go back to school, we said goodbye to our students.Overall, that was one of the best experiences I've ever had. It taught me so many things that I hadn't known about before and it built my leadership skills as well. This was the first time I had been left to handle 23 students with two other friends and at first I was kind of nervous about it but as the day went along everything went so smoothly and the students and the other mentors from my group, Carter and Ben were all so co-operative and it was really fun to work alongside with them.

Niha Calisey, Year 9 Mentor for Kensington Primary School pp

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Applications for this year’s AIG student bursary program closed in early August and we have received 38 applications from Honours, Postgraduate and Third Year students enrolled at 15 universities across Australia. The bursary committee is in the process of reviewing the applications and this year’s bursary awards will be announced in the November issue of AIG News. A quick reminder for anyone who is interested in helping with the TESEP case studies project. TESEP is collaborating with Earth Science Western Australia (ESWA) to produce case studies that complement the Earth and Environmental Science text book produced by ESWA. AIG members can help by providing Australian examples to support the book. More information is available at http://www.tesep.org.au/casestudies.html. pp

Kaylene Camuti (Chair, AIG Education Committee)

The Australian Institute of Geoscientists Medal is awarded to the academically outstanding student completing the BSc (Applied Geology - Honours). The prize winner for the AIG Medal for 2012 is Carmen Harris. Carmen’s thesis topic was Host Rock Alteration and Role of Porphyries in An Organic Gold Mineralisation Event at Andy Well, Murchison Domain, Yilgarn Craton. The prize giving ceremony occurred at Curtin University on the 31st May, 2013. pp

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Matthew Goode WEST PERTHSally Harrison EAST PERTH BCAlexander Hewlett SOUTH PERTHQuentin Hill PERTHDonald Horn RIVERTONCaroline Jackson-Hicks WEST PERTHFergus Jockel MOUNT LAWLEYKurt Kelers SOUTH LAKEDavid Kikiha WEST PERTHMark King OSBORNE PARKErnst Kohler QUEENSPARKMichal Kozikowski PERTHPenelope Large OSBORNE PARKDavid Leadbeatter DENMARKRobert Lednor STH FREMANTLEStephen Lipple SWANBOURNEGrant Louw WEST PERTHRoger McEvilly WEST PERTHRichard Monti CLAREMONTBruce Mowat PERTHJoanna Nissenbaum SUBIACONora O'Keeffe BAYSWATERMichael O'Mara DIANELLAChristopher Orr SUBIACOMatthew Painter WEST PERTH

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CANDIDATES APPROVED BY AIG COUNCIL IN MAY AND JULY 2013Mr. chris Appelkamp, of Cronulla, NSW, in the field of Geotech and EngineeringMr. Daniel butterworth, of Chatswood, NSW, in the field of Geotech and EngineeringMr. Paul Saunders, of Geelong, Victoria, in the field of Geotech and EngineeringMs. Emma Murray-haydon, of Edgewater, WA, in the field of Mining Mr. John Donaldson, of West Perth, WA, in the field of MiningMs. Jasmine richards, of Frankston, Victoria, in the field of HydrogeologyMr. Shane fieldgate, of Nedlands, WA, in the field of Mining Ms. linda Sprigg, of Warrandyte, Vic, in the field of MiningMr. Otgonbayar togtokhbayar, of Wayville, SA, in the field of MiningMr. christpher Strachotta, of Leederville, WA, in the field of Hydrogeology

NEW CANDIDATES PUBLISHED FOR PEER REVIEW BY THE MEMBERS OF THE AIGDr. Peter crowhurst of Corinda, Qld, is seeking registration in Mineral ExplorationMr. Scott bilben of Bull Creek, WA, is seeking registration in Mineral ExplorationDr. bert de Waele of West Perth, WA, is seeking registration in Regional Geology and in Mineral ExplorationMr. Andrew barclay of Ainslie, ACT, is seeking registration in Geotech and EngineeringMr. James Alderman of Brisbane, QLD, is seeking registration in Mineral Exploration and in GeophysicsMr. rod Davies of Newport, NSW, is seeking registration in Mineral Exploration, Industrial Minerals and Regional GeologyMr. Phillip Mattinson of Cottesloe, WA, is seeking registration in Mineral Exploration and Mining


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