Australian Geoscience Council recognises Roy Woodall with inaugural National Geoscience Champion award  In recognition of his contribution to geoscience in Australia, Roy Woodall AO FAusIMM has been unanimously elected as the inaugural National Geoscience Champion by the Australian Geoscience Council (AGC).   Roy Woodall’s scientific approach to exploration contributed to many significant ore discoveries in

What we learned from the highly successful period of exploration 1950 to 1999, with implications for the challenges of the future. The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and sponsors are pleased to announce the Yilgarn Retrospective, a two-day symposium to be held in Perth on March 30-31, 2015. The Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia) in the

Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits: a two day workshop to be presented by Dr Michael Lesher, Dr Steve Barnes and Dr James Mungall in Perth W.A., arranged by Geoscientists Symposia, CSIRO and AIG. Perth WA, 26-27 March 2015 CSIRO Auditorium, Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC), 26 Dick Perry Avenue Kensington WA 8:30 am to 5:30 pm daily. The course will

CALL FOR PAPERS The Yilgarn Craton (WA) in the second half of the 20th century witnessed a transformative period in the resources industry which included the discovery and successful exploitation of a new deposit type (komatiite-hosted nickel sulphide), a massive boom in exploration and mining of Archaean lode gold, and developments in a number of

What Makes a Major Mineral Discovery is a one day conference presented by the South Australia Branch of AIG, Friday 6th June 2014 in Adelaide. Have you ever wondered how world class deposits are discovered? Is it sheer geological brilliance, exceptional targeting of ground, great structural interpretation, geophysical interpretation par excellence or just plain good