The number of places available is limited for the following events.
Preference will be given to SEG 2016 Conference registrants.
Date: September 24-25, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenters: John Dilles, Kalin Kouzmanov
Porphyry-type deposits are the principal world sources of copper and molybdenum, and important sources of gold and silver. This short course is an introduction to magmatic, hydrothermal, and ore-forming processes, with examples of the geology of important and well-studied deposits. The goal is to provide participants with knowledge of the basic characteristics of host rocks, styles of alteration and mineralization, and present-day understanding of ore-forming processes in porphyry systems, based on recent scientific advances using modern analytical studies from the kilometer to micron scale.
Date: September 24-25, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenter: Jocelyn McPhie
This short course will help participants acquire the knowledge and skills needed for exploring, mining, and researching in volcanic terranes. It combines fundamental information on how volcanoes work and what they produce with practical information on how to name, describe, and log volcanic facies in the field and in drill core. Lectures will cover kinds of volcanoes, eruption styles and products on land and under water, effects of hydrothermal alteration on volcanic rocks, and breccias in mineralized volcanic environments. The relationships between volcanic and ore-forming processes will be reviewed for important volcanic-associated ore deposit types (VMS, epithermal Au-Ag, porphyry Cu, komatiite-hosted Ni, kimberlite-hosted diamonds). This course is intended for geologists engaged in regional- or deposit-scale mapping or in drilling programs in volcanic successions for the purpose of mineral exploration (especially VMS, epithermal Au-Ag, porphyry Cu) and for geological survey geologists embarking on mapping projects in volcanic successions. No prior volcanology training is required.
Date: September 25, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenter: Peter Winterburn
An understanding of the fundamental geochemical concepts of element distributions and relationships from a global level to a mineral deposit scale will be combined with sampling theory and practices to provide a model-based geochemical exploration workshop. Sampling strategies, sample types, and key analytical methodologies will be discussed, leading into multi-element strategies for data interpretation and target selection and prioritization. The course will focus on porphyry-style mineralization, although other nonporphyry examples will be discussed.
Date: September 25, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenter: Alan King
This course is designed to clearly communicate the basic principles and common applications of geophysics to geologists. The course reviews essential principles, based on most people's intuitive understanding of the physics of the world around them—that is, geophysics without equations. The course is focused on, but not restricted to, mining exploration and is designed to give geologists the tools they need to demystify, understand, and apply geophysics for all common mining exploration methods as well as some of the whole-earth geophysical methods that are important for understanding larger scale tectonics and geoscience. This is both an introductory applied course as well as an update for those that may have studied geophysics some time ago.
Date: September 29-30, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenters: Stuart Simmons, Steve Enders
Epithermal deposits host substantial resources of gold and silver that are often blind to the surface and that are sometimes very high grade. This course covers their geological setting and ore-forming processes, and the exploration methods that enable discovery. Emphasis is placed on interpreting hydrothermal alteration patterns to understand the depthlevel of exposure and proximity to upflow zones in which epithermal deposits form. In addition, we provide many examples, a few case histories of discovery, and a review of the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics that have been found to be successful in the exploration for and discovery of a variety of epithermal deposits.
Date: September 29-30, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenter: Richard Tosdal
Hydrothermal fluid flow depends critically upon a permeability fabric formed by deformation, magmatic, and sedimentary processes. Mapping those fabrics at all scales, ranging from drill core to magmatic arcs, requires an understanding of how the fabrics form and their relationship with hydrothermal flow and mineral reactions. This course examines the formation and destruction of permeability and how these features are recognized, mapped, and incorporated into a structural model of an ore-forming system. Emphasis is placed on porphyry Cu and epithermal systems, as these are common deposits present within the Tethyan orogen.
Date: September 29-30, 2016
Location: Sheraton Çeşme Hotel, Resort, and Spa | İzmir, Turkey
Presenter: Michael Doggett
This two-day course will address the issues that face exploration groups in a changing and challenging global environment for the mineral industry. These issues include fluctuating commodity prices and exchange rates, the capital crisis facing many junior explorers and developers, and the refocus of senior companies on quality rather than size of assets. We will examine how these topics impact on the minimum tonnage-grade conditions required to justify the cost and time of discovering new economic deposits. A number of questions will be addressed:
Course materials will draw on a broad range of international case studies with emphasis placed on the copper and gold sectors.
