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Thursday, 9th December 2021
Online
11.00AM – Cam Knight – Stand-up Comic
11.10AM – Moira Smith – Black Pine, Idaho, USA: A Multimillion Ounce, Carlin-Style, Oxide Gold Deposit Hiding in Plain Sight
11.50PM – Happy Hour – Q&A + Networking
Black Pine is a strongly oxidized gold deposit located in Idaho, USA, with a current indicated and inferred mineral resource containing over 2 million ounces. It is similar in nature to Carlin-type gold deposits in the Carlin and Cortez trends in north-central Nevada, 250 km to the southeast. Sporadic small scale base metal and gold mining from late 1800s to the 1950s took place and 435,000 ounces were produced from a heap leach operation in the 1990s. Liberty Gold purchased the property in 2016 and re assessed a large volume of historical data which with new drilling produced the resource estimate of about 2M oz, including a new discovery within the district.
Black Pine is an example of:
Dr. Smith is the V.P. of Exploration and Geoscience for Liberty Gold Corp, with development properties in Idaho, Utah and Turkey. Her current focus is on the advancement of the Black Pine Carlin-type gold oxide deposit in southeastern Idaho.
Formerly Chief Geologist, Nevada for Fronteer Gold, Dr. Smith was instrumental in the successful advancement of Long Canyon, now an operating gold mine in Nevada. She developed an understanding of the geology and controls on mineralization at Long Canyon, and built the geological model for ongoing exploration and resource growth. Prior to Fronteer Gold, she managed exploration programs for Teck on several high-profile, advanced-stage gold and copper-gold projects (now operating mines) throughout the Americas, including the Pogo gold deposit in Alaska, the Cobre Panama Cu-Mo-Au porphyry deposit in Panama and the El Limon gold deposit in Mexico.
Dr. Smith has a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona (1990) and is a P.Geo. (British Columbia). She has held board or executive positions with numerous industry associations and is currently president of the Society of Economic Geologists and recent winner of the Colin Spence award from the Association for Mineral Exploration of B.C. Dr. Smith is also a director of Discovery Metals Cor
Cam Knight
Cam has been an actor and stand up comedian for the past 16 years and was the co-host of a brand new show on Channel 9 called Unreal Estate alongside Kate Langbroek in 2016. He has regularly appeared on the Today show, co-hosted Studio 10 on Channel 10 and can be heard as a weekly co-host on Triple M’s Merrickville and The Weekenders with Dan Ginane in Sydney.
