Exploration in the House 2024 program
8:30 am | Registration, tea and coffee
9:00 am | Welcome to Country
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
9:05 am | Introduction
Georgina Beattie, CEO, Mining, Exploration and Geoscience (MEG)
9:15 am | Geological Survey of NSW - a year of achievement
Phillip Blevin, Chief Geoscientist and Head of the Geological Survey of New South Wales (GSNSW)
9:25 am | Keynote: Critical minerals prospectivity mapping using generative AI
Prof Dietmar Muller, the University of Sydney
9:55 am | The Macquarie Arc: recycling, evolving, persisting - new geochemical and geochronological evidence
David Forster, Senior Geoscientist, GSNSW
10:10 am | Peralkaline volcanic-hosted critical metal resources in NSW: what they are, why they form, and how to find them
Brenainn Simpson, Senior Geoscientist Mineral Systems, GSNSW
10:25 am | New ways to present old data – the Cobar drillhole and atlas compilation project
Chris Folkes, Senior Geoscientist, GSNSW
10:40 am | Morning tea
11:15 am | Unlocking exploration data from DIGS – Annual Report Release Policy (ARRP) Data Digitisation Project
Bronwyn Witham, Special Project Officer, Data Management & Delivery, Assessments & Systems, MEG
11:30 am | The Survey’s statewide geophysics data program
Astrid Carlton, Senior Geophysicist, GSNSW
11:45 am | AEM in the search for minerals and water – GA’s AEM acquisition programs in the far west of NSW
Alan Yusen Ley Cooper, Senior Geophysicist, Geoscience Australia
12:05 pm | New developments in the geology of the Canbelego region: Insights from geophysics, geochronology and field mapping
Mark Eastlake, Geoscientist, GSNSW
12:20 pm | New constraints on the subsurface structure and geological evolution of the Cobar Basin and Hermidale Terrane
Luke Mahoney, Senior Geoscientist 3D, GSNSW
12:35 pm | New datasets and functionality available in MinView
James Ballard, Geoscientist GIS, GSNSW
12:50 pm | Closing remarks
Phillip Blevin, Chief Geoscientist and Head of the Geological Survey of New South Wales
1:00 pm | Close
Please note this program is subject to change.
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