35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA



Mineral Exploration

The notifications to presenting authors confirming their specific date and time of presentation will be communicated the 20 August 2016.

Second Draft Preliminary programme is being updated per theme as the SPC signs them off.

The detailed draft day by day programme for each theme is being announced as it is being collated. These are still preliminary and will be finalised by the 20 August.

As this is the Second draft, please note that where there are abstract presenters not yet registered, these have now been removed from the programme.
Once removed, you will not be included in the abstracts or the programme. If your co-author is presenting, please contact the secretariat urgently to confirm and advise so that your paper can be moved to the correct presenter. Email 35igc@allevents.co.za if you have any queries or if you have in the interim managed to secure finances and registered.

To view the detailed programme, click here.

View all Themes

Mineral Exploration

Theme Champions


Jock Harmer
Rhodes University
E-mail Jock
Reimar Seltmann
Reimar Seltmann
Natural History Museum, London
E-mail Reimar
Jeremy Richards
Jeremy Richards
University of Alberta
E-mail Jeremy
Richard Herrington
Natural History Museum
E-mail Richard
The appointment of theme champions may not be complete and names will continue to be added as invitees are confirmed.


Keynote Speakers

  1. Reimar Seltmann (sponsored by IAGOD)  - Natural History Museum, London

    Mineral exploration models from simple fiction to complex reality

 

31ST MAY 2015 Additional symposium proposals must now be submitted directly to the theme champions (Please be sure to include the name of the proposer, seconder and short motivation).
1ST JULY 2015 -
31ST JANUARY 2016
Call for abstracts
31ST MARCH 2016 Notifications of acceptance

Mineral Exploration

 

To be sustainable, the ever-increasing demand for and extraction of the finite resources of the Earth require new and imaginative solutions. Papers and symposia on the many and varied ways of locating ore deposits are invited for this theme.

For a list of the Abstracts that have been ACCEPTED UNDER THIS THEME CLICK HERE ➤

Please note that this is preliminary and final allocations in the programme will be announced in the 5th Announcement and updated on the Website in July.


PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL PRESENTING AUTHORS (FOR ORALS) OR AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR (FOR POSTERS) MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE MEETING BY 31 MAY 2016 IN ORDER TO HAVE THE ABSTRACT INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME.

 

The following symposium proposals have already been submitted:
  1. Christien Thiart, Katsuaki Koike, Ryoichi Kouda, Noriyoshi Tsuchiya and Jorge K. Yamamoto
    » New theories and methods in resources exploration
  2. Arianne Ford and Alok Porwal
    » Quantitative geoscience data analysis for mineral exploration targeting
  3. Igor Rokityansky, Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov and Valeriya Hallbauer-Zadorozhnaya
    » Geoelectromagnetic methods for geotectonics, geodynamics, search of deposits and ecology
  4. Zié Ouattara
    » Mineral deposit footprints
  5. Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez, Ravi Anand, Tim Munday and Claudio Porto
    » Greenfields exploration in regolith-dominated terrains
  6. Alok Porwal and Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
    » The Mineral system approach: the paradigm and future trends
  7. Jingwen Mao, Franco Pirajno, Reimar Seltmann, Zhaoshan Chang and Richard J. Goldfarb
    » From Ore Deposits to Global Metallogeny: implications for exploration success (Sponsored by IAGOD)
  8. Open Session
    For all submissions that do not fall into currently identified symposia