Roger Taylor Course 1: Field Assessment of Gossans and Leached Cappings

Australian Institute of Geoscientists – SA Branch

COURSE NO.1 of 3

Field Assessment of Gossans and Leached Cappings

A one day course presented by Dr Roger Taylor

Date/Time

Tuesday, 28 August 2018
8.00am to 5.00pm

Venue

Adelaide Meridien Hotel,
21-39 Melbourne Street,
North Adelaide, 5006

Speaker

Dr Roger Taylor has been involved with the exploration industry for over 40 years operating as a practicing exploration/ mine geologist and academic (Director- Economic Geology Research Unit, James Cook University (1993-1998)). More recent activities include general international consulting to numerous mining companies, further development of a range of professional development courses, and petrological services. Major publications include books on tin deposits, ore textures-breccias, and gossans/ leached outcrops. Major interests are magmatic related deposits, including tin, wolfram, porphyry copper, IOCG, and epithermal systems.

Course Details

Gossans / Leached Cappings

• Basic Principles
• Limonite styles – indigenous vs transported
• Secondary Minerals – recognition – interpretation
• Boxworks – development – recognition and interpretation

Porphyry Copper Leached Cap Assessment

• Basic principles
• Development – textural features -limonite styles – methods of approach
• Examples: Escondida (arid) – Grasberg (tropical)
• Oxide zones – development -recognition
• Supergene zones

The course will be presented with illustrative hand specimens which are integrated with the lecture materials

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Registrations are now open

Please note registrations close Friday 24th August 2018.

INCLUDES: lunch and morning / afternoon tea.
AIG Members – $500
Non Members – $600
Students – $125
unemployed AIG Member Geologists – $200

A limited number of student / unemployed concessions are available

A discount rate for those wishing to attend all workshops is $1600 for AIG members and $2000 for non members – click here for all workshops registration

More information

For further information please contact:

Graham Teale: geologists@tealeassociates.com.au
Adrian Brewer: ambrewer@ozemail.com.au

If you have any registration or login issues, please email us at bookings@aig.org.au.