NExUS Professional Development Workshops: Coping with skarns
NExUS Professional Development Workshops
Online Workshop
Coping with skarns
Date & Time
5th-6th May, 2022
Venue
Online Workshop
Presented by
Dr. Roger Taylor and Dr. Richard Lilly
Dr Roger Taylor has been involved with the exploration industry for over 50 years operating as a practicing exploration / mine geologist and academic as Director of the Economic Geology Research Unit at James Cook University (1993-1998).
More recent activities include international consulting to numerous global 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.
Co-Presented by
Dr. Richard Lilly is a senior exploration geologist with over 20 years experience spanning the industry-academia boundary. Working for Mount Isa Mines (2007-2015) and as an Embedded Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide he has coordinated and supervised >65 applied research investigations on a diverse range of ore deposits from North West Queensland to South Australia.
NExUS-Professional Development (NExUS-PD) workshops are very proud to be able to offer Roger Taylor’s classic Coping with Skarns workshop online, co-presented by Dr. Richard Lilly.
This classic course is a practical guide towards rock recognition, ore textures and structural controls of skarn systems. The updated course will also discuss the relationship between skarns and carbonate replacement systems with case studies and updates on recent research.
The workshop includes general features and skarn recognition, skarn components, paragenesis, structural controls and discussion on skarn varieties including ‘mafic skarns’.
Sessions 1-3: Day 1, Thursday 5th May
General features – Skarn mineral recognition
Skarn components – Architecture – Exoskarn – Endoskarn – Overprinting-general paragenesis
Structural controls – Zoning – Detailed Skarn Paragenesis Case Study (Big Gossan, Grasberg)
Sessions 4-6: Day 2, Friday 6 th May
Carbonate Replacement – Links to Skarn
Textural Recognition – Recent research – Case Study (Mount Isa / George Fisher Systems)
Mafic Skarns – Links to IOCG Systems – Case Study (Cloncurry IOCGs and Cannington)
Each session approx. 90-120 min. Times TBC
REGISTRATION FEES
Full Registration: $500
AIG and GSA Members: $400
Students*: $50
*Limited free places available to international students, sponsored by OZ Minerals. Apply directly to Richard.Lilly@adelaide.edu.au
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