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Geological Survey of South Australia Discovery Day, held on 28 November 2019, was a day of geoscience presentations and networking opportunities.

Presentations and videos

PresenterPresentationVideo
New geoscience
Rohan Cobcroft, GSSA GSSA direction and highlights (PDF 5.2 MB) 11 minutes
Stephan Thiel, GSSA Mineral systems mapping in the Olympic Domain (PDF 6.8 MB) 14 minutes
Adrian Fabris, GSSA IOCG knowledge cube - IOCG systems of South Australia (PDF 5.4 MB) 16 minutes
Caroline Tiddy, University of South Australia Subduction, rollback and decoupling: an alternative tectonic model for mineral systems in southern Proterozoic Australia (PDF 2.8 MB) 16 minutes
Louise Corriveau, Geological Survey of Canada Alteration facies in IOCG terranes: a global view on mineral systems with IOCG and affiliated deposit types (PDF 6.8 MB) 35 minutes
Justin Payne, University of South Australia Deposits in the central Gawler Craton: the spectrum of processes from mantle to crust (PDF 4.3 MB) 15 minutes
Stacey Curtis, GSSA Plate margin tectonics and metallogeny of the Delamerian Orogen: Discovering what lies beneath the Murray Basin (PDF 4.3 MB) 15 minutes
Sandra McLaren, University of Melbourne Tectonic and climatic controls on the evolution of the Murray Basin (PDF 9.6 MB) 21 minutes
Baohong Hou, GSSA Mineral potential of western Murray Basin (PDF 9.4 MB) 13 minutes
Ancient and modern environments
Jason Irvine, Department for Environment and Water Flinders Ranges: Pursuing the World Heritage potential (PDF 4.4 MB) 11 minutes
Maree Corkeron, James Cook University Arkaroola Reef: ecosystems of the world's best exposed Neoproterozoic interglacial carbonate reef (PDF 6.1 MB) 18 minutes
Jim Gehling, South Australian Museum The Adelaide Rift Complex: a classic record of the rise of a habitable planet (PDF 5.2 MB) 15 minutes
Stephen Hore, GSSA Arkaroola – Mt Painter Region: “Hot and cold” (PDF 7.9 MB) 14 minutes
Digital earth
Ursula Michael, GSSA Enabling big data analytics in geoscience through open data standards (PDF 5.2 MB) 13 minutes
Holly Bridgwater, Unearthed Digital discovery: trends in data science and their application by the minerals industry (PDF 1 MB) 13 minutes
Javen Shi, DeepsightX Where geo- and data-science and meet: a machine learning approach to the challenge of mineral exploration (PDF 3.5 MB) 18 minutes
Alex Blood, Department for Energy and Mining The Accelerated Discovery Initiative: rationale and opportunities (PDF 1.7 MB) 13 minutes

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Posters

Author/sTitle
Mark Pawley, Rian Dutch and Tom Wise Relationship between deformation, melt migration and magmatism: An example from the Coompana Province of South Australia. (PDF 6.7 MB)
Laz Katona Gawler Craton Airborne Survey Laser digital elevation model. (PDF 3.4 MB)
Laz Katona Gawler Craton Airborne Survey Ternary Radiometric Image. (PDF 7 MB)
Laz Katona Gawler Craton Airborne Survey Total Magnetic Intensity. (PDF 4.3 MB)
Nathan Reid, David J Gray, Tania Wilson, Anthony Reid, Patrice de Caritat, Anna Petts and Rob Thorne The hydrogeochemistry of South Australia: A new compilation for understanding lithology and defining mineral prospectivity. (PDF 1.9 MB)
Zhou Dai, Jason MacKellar, Jacob Nelson, Christian Romeo, Peter Pudney, Selasi Kwashie, Masud Karim, Peter Buxton and Anna Petts Can mathematics be used to assess the quality of geochemical datasets? (PDF 3.9 MB)
Martin Köhler, Anna Petts, John Keeling, Baohong Hou, Delia Rösel, Anthony Reid and George Gouthas Zircon provenance and the late Neogene evolution of heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin. (PDF 7.2 MB)
Alan Mauger and Kathy Ehrig Olympic Dam: 60,000 metres under the Dam. (PDF 9 MB)
Claire Wade, Justin Payne, Anthony Reid and Karin Barovich Oxidised A-type granites and Au-Cu deposit potential. (PDF 1.5 MB)
Clive Foss Sweet-spot magnetic source depth mapping using the new GCAS data. (PDF 13 MB)
Clive Foss GCAS magnetization mapping from full anomaly magnetic field inversions. (PDF 15.3 MB)
Tom Wise, Mark Pawley and Rian Dutch Proterozoic magmatic and deformation styles reflect a strengthening lithosphere. (PDF 2.1 MB)

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South Australian Exploration & Mining Conference 2019

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