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Thursday October 22,
5.50 pm Virtual meeting room will go online, to enable attendees to login
5.55 pm – Announcements
6.00 – 6.45 pm – 30 to 45 minute presentation by Joe Schifano
6.45 – 7.30 pm – Questions, catch up
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Presented by Joe Schifano
Follows is an extract from a summary paper, with Joe undertaking this work for his PhD at UNSW – the full summary can be accessed here.
The selection of sampling media in regional geochemical exploration programs involves balancing of various factors. These include the availability of the media, the strength and consistency of geochemical patterns that can be spatially related to the effects of mineralisation and the cost. Recent focus has been on development of methods capable of detecting mineralisation through transported cover. This study is examining the use of biogeochemistry (cypress pine needles) as a primary sampling media at both regional and local (deposit) scales. The selection of species is based on previous studies at the McKinnons Tank Au deposit and recent orientation work completed in the vicinity of various mineral deposits in the area. It also benefits from recent studies conducted at Sunny Corner and Woodlawn (NSW) and in Cyprus. Needles from over 3,000 trees have been sampled and analysed by a combination of ICP-MS and fieldportable XRF (both in the field and laboratory).
Joe’s Bio:
Joe Schifano completed a Degree in Resource Economics with a minor in Geology at Wollongong, before going on to complete an Honours Degree in Geology at UNSW in 2000. Over the last 20 years Joe has worked across various commodities including 6 years in coal with the NSW Government, 5 years with gold and base metal explorer Golden Cross Resources (GCR) as a Project Geologist and Tenement Manager and included some pine sampling on GCR held projects at Burra and Pine Ridge. Joe transitioned to an independent contractor from 2011 till present. From 2011 Joe has been primarily focussed on working throughout the Cobar Basin in western NSW drilling out inferred and indicated maghemite bearing iron ore paleochannels for 3E Steel Pty Limited, along with prospecting on their gold and base metal targets. In 2017 Joe drilled out a new petalite-based lithium-caesium-rubidium pegmatite resource at the Londonderry Lithium Project south west of Coolgardie in Western Australia for ARM Mining Pty Ltd. During his work across the Cobar Basin over the last 10 years, which included some cypress pine sampling at the Bimbella Gold Project in 2016 held by 3E Steel, Joe decided it was time to go back to his unfinished PhD and rejig it with a focus on biogeochemistry across the whole basin, noticing the widespread occurrence of White Cypress Pine (Callitris glaucophylla) from his drilling of iron bearing paleochannels all over the Cobar Basin. For further details of Joe’s career to date please refer to his Linkedin profile.
