| Thursday 27 June, Session 1. Chair: Consulting geologist. President, AIG |
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| Welcome to OREAS Victorian Minerals Roundup – Bill Reid, Chair, Victorian committee, Australian Institute of Geoscientists |
| Victorian gold exploration: adding value as a geologist – Neil Phillips, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne |
| The past, present and future of the Ballarat Gold Mine – Charles Carnie, Technical Services Manager, Victory Minerals Pty Ltd |
| Thursday 27 June, Session 2. Chair: Anant Khimasia, Exploration Geologist, Agnico Eagle Australia. AIG Victoria committee and GPIC co-ordinator |
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| VHM Goschen Project – securing supply of critical minerals for the global energy transition – Paul Liandri, Technical Services and Geology Manager, VHM Ltd |
| Building machine learning computer vision models to extract geological data from RC chips – Nathaniel Pittaway, Geology Product Owner & Customer Success Lead, Datarock Pty Ltd |
| The Farrelly Mineral Sands Discovery – Philip Main, Project Geologist, Falcon Metals Ltd |
| Victoria versus Australia : Opportunities, Endowment & Performance – Richard Shodde, Managing Director, MINEX Consulting |
| Thursday 27 June, Session 3. Chair: Adele Seymon, Director, Deep Green R&D Solutions. Director, AIG |
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| The A1 Mine – Beyond the 23; a New Horizon – Shawn Panton, General Manager, Kaiser Reef Ltd |
| Why we lose women from geoscience: causes and solutions – Melanie Finch, Vice President, WOMEESA and Structural Geologist, University of Melbourne |
| Keep questioning: Unlocking value throughout the mining sequence at Costerfield. – Katherine Barta, Resource Geologist, Mandalay Resources Costerfield Operations |
| Knowledge is power: Cuttings and cores and bores, oh my! How to use the GSV Drill Core Library to your advantage – Shannon Brown, Geoscientist, Drilling Information, Geological Survey of Victoria |
| Knowledge is Power: Tips and tricks for exploration reporting – Claire Hirschmann, Senior Geoscientist, Tenements, Geological Survey of Victoria |
| Thursday 27 June, Session 4. Chair: Matt Jewell, Geoscience student, Federation University. AIG Victoria committee |
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| An update on the Bethanga Cu-Au Project – Dennis Arne, Consultant, Telemark Geosciences and Nexus Minerals |
| In-Mine Imaging with Muon Tomography – Asbjorn Christensen, Sales & Business Development (Resources), mDetect Pty Ltd |
| The evolving story of Robbins Hill – Maritza Constantinou, Senior Resource Development Geologist, Agnico Eagle Australia |
| CHOICES – James Wood, Workplace Accident Victim & Keynote Safety Speaker & Presenter, CNB Safe |
| Friday 28 June, Session 1. Chair: Melanie Finch, Lecturer, University of Melbourne. Vice-president WOMEESA. |
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| The use of geophysical methods for improving exploration outcomes, with a focus on ambient noise tomography (ANT) – Browyn Murphy, Senior Geologist and Head of Account Manager, Fleet Space Technologies |
| The Murray Basin is not dead: new discovery in 2024 – Pamela Richetti, Geologist, ACDC Metals Ltd |
| Mining, geology and their place within Australia’s history – Ben Mountford, Charles Fahey, Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University and Adjunct Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University |
| Lauriston Project, Blackwood Goldfield, Comet Prospect: current exploration – Rex Motton, Chief Operating Officer, Great Pacific Gold Corp |
| Friday 28 June, Session 2. Chair: Mark McClean, Geophysicist, Geological Survey of Victoria division of Resources Victoria. Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne. Chair ASEG Victoria. |
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| Stawell: The mine geologists perspective – Jo Reid, Mine Geologist, Stawell Gold Mines |
| Exploring the prospectivity and opportunity for High Purity Quartz in Australia – Dr Simon Richards, Mineral Systems Geoscientist, Geoscience Australia |
| Why people with great big-company experience rarely make great small-company executives – Rick Squire, Portfolio Manager, Acorn Capital Ltd |
| Critical Minerals Studies Updates: Characterising Victorian Antimony-Gold Deposits – Sam Waugh, Economic Geologist, Critical Minerals, Geological Survey of Victoria |
| Critical Minerals Studies Updates: REE in alkaline rocks in Victoria – Tom Andrews, Economic Geologist, Critical Minerals, Geological Survey of Victoria |
| Friday 28 June, Session 3. Chair: Fiona Czuczman, Geologist, S2 Resources. AIG Victoria Committee. MCA Woman in mining, Victoria, 2024 |
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| The Excelsior Gold Project – Pat Tucker, Senior Project Geologist, Core Prospecting Pty Ltd |
| Geothermal Development Opportunities at Koroit, Victoria – Peter Barnett, Director, Victorian Geothermal Exploration Company Pty Ltd |
| Sunday Creek Project; high grade Au-Sb, with demonstrated continuity in the Melbourne Zone – Claudia Bowman, Projet Geologist, Southern Cross Gold Ltd |
| JORC 2024 draft comments process – Steve Hunt, Chair, JORC |
| Friday 28 June, Session 4. Chair: Chair: Jaime Livesey, CEO, AIG |
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| Could Nagambie be another Costerfield – James Earle, Chief Executive Officer, Nagambie Resources Limited |
| Update on the AIG – Dale Sims, President, Australaian Institute of Geoscientists |
