Event - Drilling for Geology 2008 Conference

When?

Wednesday, October 08 2008 09:00AM - Friday, October 10 2008 05:00PM

Where?

Royal on the Park, Brisbane

What?

Registration is now open for the upcoming Drilling for Geology 2008 conference organised by the Qld branch of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG).

This new technical conference focuses solely on the collection and analysis of geological information from drilling. Be it grassroots exploration or mining operations, drilling is the prime method used for geological data collection and is often the biggest single cost centre for exploration and mine geology budgets.

During the first two days there will be 23 technical presentations, headlined by six key-note speakers; and we have 21 trade exhibitors.    Six post-conference professional development workshops are confirmed to run on the third day of the conference (see technical program below).

Industry support has been tremendous with all gold and silver sponsorships confirmed. Some bronze sponsorship options remain as well as a few trade exhibition booths.

REGISTRATION FORM - see attached

Remaining Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities - see attached

Contacts:
Conference Convenor    mberry@amcconsultants.com.au
Event Management        michele@emenem.com.au

AUTHOR(S)	KEY-NOTE PRESENTATIONS (Day 1 and 2)
Bill Laing	Structural geology and ore-finding from drilling: Where from; where to?
Tom Browne and William Grace	Drilling expectations - Who rules the rods?
Joe Cucuzza	Driving innovation in drilling: The drilling technology roadmap and other initiatives
Peter Hatherly, Terry Medhurst and Fabio Ramos	New opportunities for down-hole geophysics and drill monitoring measurements
Matthew Spotkaeff	Oilfield toys - An overview of formation evaluation logging tools for the oil/gas industry
Scott Thompson	A new direction - The future of directional drilling and sensing in the global coal and coal seam methane industries
AUTHOR(S)	TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (Day 1 and 2)
Mark Berry and Alana Philips	Drilling statistics overview - 1987 to 2007
Simon Fitzgerald	25 years of progress - What now?
Peter Kanck	Blue sky - But why so high
Luiz Franca and Akbar Mahjoob	An alternative drilling technique to explore mineral reserves
Craig Smith	Elemental estimation in boreholes using nuclear methods - The past and the future
Eric Wedepohl, Greg Turner, James Reid and Kate Godber	Borehole geophysics for resource delineation
Binzhong Zhou	A review of Logging-While-Drilling for metalliferous mining applications
Peter Stoker	Public reporting - What's special about geophysical results related to drilling
Tom Cochrane and Shane Froud	Directional drilling and reef characterisation of drill intercepts within the nuggety Bendigo Goldfield
John Siemon	Drilling for industrial minerals and rocks
Ross Hastings	Going it alone - The Allied owner-operator drilling experience
Lloyd Hamilton, Barry Tasker and Bruce McConachie	Efficiency of different grid shapes in pattern drilling for coal and other stratiform deposits
Dave Lawie	Deriving quantitative geological information from assay data
Lenore Jepsen, Isobel Algar and Skye Bargmann	Drill and sample metadata - The importance of good data keeping
Mike Whitbread, Dave Lawie and Bruce Pertzel	Practical QA/QC - A guide to simple, effective quality control for mining and exploration
Robert Willis, Allen Shaw and Mark Haydon	Old dogs and new tricks - Maintaining consistent diamond core logging in boom times.
Craig Stevens, Darren Osbourne and Charles Carnie	Garbage in, garbage out
WORKSHOP PROVIDER	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS (Day 3)
Laing Exploration (full day)	The A-Z of structurally finding and modelling ore deposits in drill core
ioGlobal (full day)	Practical QA/QC - A guide to simple effective quality assurance
Boart Longyear (half day)	Introduction to drilling methods and techniques
Reflex (half day)	Core orientation and down-hole survey instruments
Geoforce (half day)	Introduction to borehole geophysics
AMC Consultants (half day)	Lessons learnt from auditing drill programs

AIG Student Bursary Program

AIG's bursary programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students is generously supported by sponsors including: