NExUS Professional Development Workshops: Coping with Skarns and their relationships to carbonate replacement deposits
NExUS Professional Development Workshops
Online Workshop
Coping with Skarns and their relationships to carbonate replacement deposits
Date & Time
25th – 26th May 2021
(Limited to 30 places)
Presented by
Dr Roger Taylor
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 >50 applied research investigations on a diverse range of ore deposits from North West Queensland to South Australia and Europe.
- NExUS-Professional Development (NExUS-PD) workshops are very proud to be able to offer Roger Taylor’s classic Coping with Skarns workshop online for the very first time. The workshop will be co-presented by Dr. Richard Lilly.
- This classic course is a practical guide towards rock recognition, ore textures and structural controls of skarn systems. For the first time the 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’.
Day 1, 25th May
Sessions 1-3:
- General features – Skarn mineral recognition
- Skarn components – Architecture – Exoskarn – Endoskarn – Overprinting-general paragenesis
- Structural controls – Zoning – Detailed Skarn Paragenesis Case Study (Big Gossan, Grasberg)
Each session approx. 90-120 min. Times TBC
Day 2, 26th May
Sessions 4-6:
- 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)
REGISTRATION FEES
Full Registration: $500
AIG Members: $400
Students: $100
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