Provisional Program

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The IGES 2005 Program is provisional and some changes may be necessary.  Updates will be made to the website.  Poster presentations will be on display for the entire Symposium period.  Presenters will be asked to stand with their posters for discussion at selected times to match the theme of the day. Please refer to the Poster Guidelines for more information.

Below is a list of papers to be included in the provisional program.

Keynote Papers

Use of biota in mineral exploration in areas of transported cover
Ravi Anand, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

The role of mineralogy in the interpretation of environmental and exploration geochemical data
Rob Bowell, SRK Consulting, Wales, UK

Punctuated equilibria in the 30-year evolution of geochemical exploration under cover
Gwendy Hall, Geological Survey of Canada

Fifty years of geochemical exploration in the Western Australian goldfields
Richard Mazzucchelli, Searchtech, WA

Data, Our Raw Materials: Analysis, QAQC, Data Management, Data Processing

Local scale variation: Lag sampling in the Cobar Area, NSW, Australia
Mark Arundell, Arundell Geoscience, WA

An evaluation of methods for imputation of missing trace element data in groundwaters
Bruce Dickson, Dickson Research Pty Ltd, NSW

Ordered vector quantization for the integrated analysis of geochemical and geoscientific data sets
Stephen Fraser, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, QLD

Real time geochemical answers in the field
Richard K Glanzman, Glanzman Geochemical LLC, USA

The success rates for various soil analytical methods around a mining camp in Western Australia
Michael G Jones, Lithofire Consulting Geologists, WA

Continuous leach inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Applications for exploration and environmental geochemistry
Bill MacFarlane, Queen’s University, Canada

Gold geochemistry of the Sumayar Valley, Northern Areas of Pakistan
Iftikhar Malik, Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation, Pakistan

Univariate data presentation: The contouring conundrum and philosophical arguments for drawing them
Clifford R Stanley, Acadia University, Canada

Interactive geochemical data interpretation
Mark Arundell, Arundell Geoscience, WA

On-line access for real-time audits of laboratory processes
Brenda Caughlin, ALS Chemex, Canada

Differential effects of selective geochemical extractions within plumbojarosite
David Cohen, University of New South Wales

Data determined zonation around mineralisation
Simon Gatehouse, University of New South Wales and Hellman & Scholfield Pty Ltd, NSW

Mapping IOCG potential using lake sediment geochemistry
Eric Grunsky, Geological Survey of Canada

Preservation of As III and As V in surface and ground waters
Gwendy Hall, Geological Survey of Canada

Elemental distributions in minerals and soils by microwave-assisted continuous leach on-line with inductively coupled plasma time of flight mass spectrometry
Kurt Kyser, Queen’s University, Canada

Development and utilisation of a national geochemical database
Steven Smith, US Geological Survey

Quantifying the magnitude of sampling, preparation and analytical errors in drilling projects for gold: Myths, models and strategies for mitigating the ‘nugget effect’
Clifford R Stanley, Acadia University, Canada

A stepwise multi-disciplinary regional geochemical soil mapping and exploration strategy for under saturated complexes
Schalk W Strauss, Council for Geosciences, South Africa

Discovery Case Histories and Geochemical Exploration in Tropical, Temperate and Glacial Terrains

Geochemical dispersion in the lateritic regolith of the Chapada Cu-Au deposit, Central Brazil
Chris Benn, BHP Billiton, Canada

Uranium exploration using Pb isotope analysis of partial leaches
Graham Carr, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, NSW

Laterite geochemical map of the SW Yilgarn Craton
Matthias Cornelius, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, CRC LEME, WA

The discovery, mapping and classification of the Ramakok’s Karaal Carbonatite, Bushveld Area, South Africa
Jacobus H Elsenbroek, Council for Geoscience, South Africa

Discriminating barren and productive geophysical targets using partial digestion soil geochemistry: Discovery of the Hunt Gold Zone, Manitoba, Canada
Mark Fedikow, Mount Morgan Resources Ltd, Canada

Soil and lake sediment geochemistry in exploration for kimberlite: NWT, Canada
John Gravel, Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd, Canada

Towards an integrated model for supergene gold redistribution in the Yilgarn Craton
David J Gray, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, CRC LEME, WA

Regional biogeochemical exploration in Southern Australia
Hamid R Hemmati, University of Wollongong, NSW

River Red Gums as an important biogeochemical sampling media for mineral explorers and environmental chemists
Karen Hulme, Adelaide University, SA

Supergene gold enrichment in a reduced palaeochannel, Sunrise Dam Deposit, Laverton, WA: Implications for exploration and mining
Louisa Lawrance, The University of Western Australia

Mineral exploration targets in British Columbia, Canada, identified from regional stream geochemical surveys
Ray Lett, British Columbia Ministry of Energy & Mines, Canada

Hardpans and base of hardpan geochemical surveys
Alan Marshall, Xplore Pty Ltd, WA

Hydrogeochemical exploration for gold in the Western Australian wheatbelt
Mark Pirlo, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, CRC-LEME, WA

Targeting gold mineralisation below Lake Way, near Wiluna – a potential geochemical method for exploring the extensive salt playa systems of WA
Craig Rugless, Pathfinder Exploration Pty Ltd, WA

Use of different fractions and heavy minerals of till for ore exploration in ribbed moraine areas in Southern Finnish Lapland
Pertti Sarala, Geological Survey of Finland

Inland acid sulfate soils – a new geochemical sampling medium: A regional orientation study from the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Marian Skwarnecki, Geological Survey of Western Australia

Geochemical and mineralogical signature of kimberlite dykes in soil and stream sediment data from Southern West Greenland
Agnete Steenfelt, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Wide-spaced sampling for delineation of geochemical provinces in desert terrains, Northwestern China
Xueqin Wang, Institute of Geophysical & Geochemical Exploration, China

Discriminating coarse gold: Fine fraction stream sediment sampling in the Sofala Area, Central New South Wales, Australia
Mark Arundell, Arundell Geoscience, WA

Geochemistry of the Sasare-Eagle Eye Project and the discovery of iron oxide copper gold deposits in Zambia
Rob Bowell, SRK Consulting, Wales

Centre Forrest, Ularring Rock Project, WA Wheatbelt – a Greenfields Cu-Au discovery by conventional follow-up of open file geochemical data
Carl Brauhart, Sipa Resources Limited, WA

Soil and biogeochemical signatures of the Aripuanã base metal deposit – Mato Grosso, Brazil
Matthias Cornelius, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Using groundwater to vector towards mineralisation under cover: The Curnamona Province
Patrice De Caritat, CRC LEME, ACT

Low-density geochemical survey of the Riverina Region, Southeastern Australia: Results and applications
Patrice De Caritat, CRC LEME, ACT

Wattles, gum trees and kangaroos: The use of some Australian landscape icons for regional-scale biogeochemcial exploration in semi arid Southeastern Australia
Steven Hill, CRC LEME, University of Adelaide, SA

Nonbarrier biogeochemical exploration for silver
A L Kovalevskii & O M Kovalevskaya, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Towards an atlas of geochemical exploration models for mineral deposits in Canadian Cordillera
Ray Lett, British Columbia Ministry of Energy & Mines, Canada

Kimberlite exploration in glaciated terrain: Examples of the application of indicator minerals and till geochemistry
Beth McClenaghan, Geological Survey of Canada

Geochemical exploration models for regolith-dominated terrain in Western New South Wales
Kenneth G McQueen, CRC LEME, Australian National University, Canberra

Variations and dispersion of elements in desert regolith, Northwestern China
Xueqin Wang, Institute of Geophysical & Geochemical Exploration, China

Environmental Geochemistry: Its Interaction With Exploration

Geochemical exploration in an area with artisanal gold mining in Perou
Jorge Loredo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Geohealth implications of the Riverina geochemical survey
Patrice De Caritat, Geoscience Australia, Canberra

Environmental geochemistry at Red Mountain, an undisturbed volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in the Bonnifield District, Alaska Range, East-Central Alaska
Robert Eppinger, US Geological Survey

Environmental and exploration geochemistry of massive sulfide deposits in arctic climates: Distinguishing natural versus anthropogenic sources
Karen Kelley, US Geological Survey

Ecology mercury-biogeochemical cartography of the Baikal Lake
A L Kovalevskii, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Geochemistry of groundwater affected by acid mine drainage developed from sulphide tailings, Black Swan Nickel Mine, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Lei Liangqi, Guilin Institute of Technology, PR China

Contamination of peat and moss samples 150km from the Flin Flon Cu-Zn Smelter, Canada: Implications for exploration
Paul Polito, Anglo American Exploration Australia, WA

As mobilisation from an abandoned mine site in León Province (northern Spain)
Jorge Loredo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Gaseous geochemical exploration at the site of abandoned mercury mines in Northern Spain
Jorge Loredo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Geochemical baseline in Northern Nevada: Determining background conditions
Rob Bowell, SRK Consulting, Wales

In situ arsenic removal using redox condition alteration: Experiments and Modelling
Mohamed Darwish, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Acid drainage in the Western Australian wheatbelt
David Gray, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Physical properties of the sediment which deposits from mine water in old coal mine
Makoto Okamoto, Kyushu International University, Japan

Geochemical Exploration’s Brave New World.
Seeing Through Transported Overburden, Mechanisms of Metal Mobility

Use of partial/selective extraction soil geochemistry in focusing exploration in Matagami, Quebec, an established VMS mining district
Charles Beaudry, Noranda Inc/Falconbridge Ltd, Canada

An alternative approach to geochemical leaching: The Pink Leach
Iain Dalrymple, University of New South Wales

The dual role of vegetation in anomaly formation at Barns Gold Prospect (Eyre Peninsula, South Australia)
Melvyn Lintern, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Rare earth and partial digestions – diagnostic signals from below
Alan W Mann, MMI Technology, WA

Testing of liquid geogas collectors in China
Wang Mingqi, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

Locating ore undercover using a bacterial leach and other geochemical techniques
Ryan Noble, Curtin University of Technology, WA

Deep penetrating geochemistry, from source to surface: Experimental and field results
Brian Townley, Department of Geology, University of Chile

SDP soil-gas geochemistry at Cross Lake, Ontario
Stephen Windle, SDP Pty Ltd, QLD

“Forest rings” and their implications for oil, gas and mineral exploration using geochemistry
Stewart M Hamilton, Ontario Geological Survey, Canada

Electrochemical transport and reduced chimneys over oxidizable geological features – understanding the physics
Stewart M Hamilton, Ontario Geological Survey, Canada

Soil gas hydrocarbons (SGH) – penetrating predictive geochemistry using a forensic investigation with organic mineral signatures for mineral exploration
Eric Hoffman, Activation Laboratories Ltd, Canada

The use of partial and selective leach surface geochemistry in exploration for iron oxide Cu-Au (IOCAD) mineralisation through deep cover – a case study from the Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia
Allan Kelly, XGS Exploration Geochemistry Services, WA

Geochemical exploration of mineral deposits under glaciers
Vladimir Makarov, Permafrost Institute, Russia

Gold and arsenic uptake and sequestration by Eucalyptus salmonophloia: Two possible phytotransportation mechanisms of metals to the surface
Rebecca Schaefer, Environmental Science Program, Acadia University, Canada

Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits: Isotope and Hydrothermal Geochemistry

Exploration for IOCG type deposits using lithogeochemistry and stable isotope geochemistry
Jorge Benavides, Queen’s University, Canada

Geochemical signature of au-mineralised late-metamorphic deformation zones, Otago Schist, New Zealand
Dave Craw, University of Otago, New Zealand

Application of lithogeochemistry to gold exploration at Gold Fields St Ives, Western Australia
Kylie Prendergast, Gold Fields St Ives, WA

Rutile compositions at the Big Bell Au deposit as a guide for exploration
Keith Scott, Australian National University, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, NSW

Lithogeochemistry of the Collahuasi porphyry Cu-Mo and epithermal Cu-Ag (-Au) cluster, Northern Chile: Pearce element ration and stable isotope vectors to ore
Esteban Urqueta, Queen’s University, Canada

Chromite and tourmaline chemical composition as a guide to mineral exploration
Gabriel Voicu, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

Assessing the fertility of plutons in specialised granitoids using lithogeochemistry: Constraints on the contributions of assimilation and fractional crystallation processes in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia
Michael A Whitbread, IoGeochemistry, QLD

Geochemistry and stable isotopes of the riff-related quartz-adularia-type gold-silver mineralisation, Izmir, Turkey
Huseyin Yilmaz, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey

A simple model for rare metal prospecting
Ekaterina Abushkevich, St Petersburg State University, Russia

Mammoth St Antony deposit: An example of complex polymetallic epithermal mineralisation in Arizona
Rob Bowell, SRK Consulting, Wales

Lithogeochemical exploration for gold in Abu Sari, Northern Sudan
Wang Mingqi, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, PR China

Downhole trace and major element chemostratigraphic patterns relating to igneous fractionation processes in the Golden Mile Dolerite, Western Australia
Tansy O’Connor-Parsons, Acadia University, Canada

Application of S iosotopes to discriminate between barren and mineralised massive sulphide deposits near Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Paul Polito, Anglo American Exploration Australia, WA

The characterisation of St Ives hydrothermal gold deposits and alteration footprints using PIMA Spectral Analysis
Steven Whitehead, University of Western Australia

Regolith – The Continuum; From Tropics to Tundra

Lateritic duricrusts: Crowning glory of deep weathering profiles, or early product of lateral groundwater flow?
Leigh Bettenay, Sipa Resources Limited, WA

Mapping regolith and alteration mineral physicochemistry using airborne hyperspectral data
Thomas Cudahy, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Revealing the structure of gold occurring as nuggets
Robert M Hough, CRC LEME, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Carbon isotopic evidence for microbial influence in exotic-type copper ore deposits: Implications for exploration where microbes are involved
Kurt Kyser, Queen’s University, Canada

Mineral hosts for gold and trace metals in regolith
Maite Le Gleuher, Australian National University, Canberra

On the spectral reflectance characteristics of zinc phosphate minerals and a novel application of U-Th/He thermochronometry to constrain the age of non sulfide mineralisation at Skorpion, Namibia
Timothy McConachy, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, NSW

Transformation of transported kaolin and its effect on the kaolinite crystallinity index
Balbir Singh, CRC LEME, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Distribution and origin of regolith carbonates in Southern Australia
Robert Dart, The University of Adelaide, SA

Morphology and composition of palaeochannel gold, Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Western Australia
Donna Falconer, University of Otago, New Zealand

Mineral hosts for gold and pathfinder elements at the Mount Gibson and Lancefield Gold Deposits, Western Australia
Robert M Hough, CRC LEME, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, WA

Nutrient characteristics of soils from the Margaret River wine district
Alan W Mann, MMI Technology, WA

Relating surficial attributes to 3D regolith architecture
Anna Petts, University of Adelaide, CRC LEME, SA