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Entering an immature exploration search space (Sandstone Greenstone Belt, W. Australia)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Management, Mineral Economics, PhD, Publications, Recommended, Research, Technical Paper Reviews

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Last week, a publication by colleagues Sam Davies (University of Western Australia & Alto Metals), David Groves (Orebusters), Allan Trench (UWA), and Jon Standing (Model Earth), to which I also contributed was published in the peer reviewed journal 'Ore Geology Reviews'. The paper is entitled "Entering an immature exploration search space: Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the…
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Mineral systems, endowment analysis and exploration strategy at Sandstone goldfield

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, Management, Mineral Economics, PhD, Publications, Recommended, Research, Strategy

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The final work I had the pleasure to be involved in at the TARGET Conference was the initial PhD research of (Rhys) Sam Davies also at the Centre for Exploration Targeting (The University of Western Australia). His work is aiming to link mineral systems theory and endowment and prospectivity analyses, with the existing data sets available at the Sandstone goldfield…
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Nick Gardiner – Myanmar: A Tethyan Mineral System?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Mineral Economics, Mining, Recommended

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Tomorrow I have invited Dr. Nick Gardiner to speak at the Centre for Exploration Targeting Seminar Series on "Myanmar: A Tethyan Mineral System?". Nick has recently joined the Curtin University node of the Centre for Exploration Targeting, from Oxford University. He is a specialist in isotope and metamorphic geology and one of the foremost experts on Myanmar. Some of the presentation will…
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An Economic Perspective on Deep & Under Cover Minerals Exploration

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, Mining

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Earlier this year my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented an opening address to a special workshop at the ASEG-PESA (Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists & Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia) 2015 conference, with some co-author assistance from myself and Matthew Kanakis. The workshop was entitled 'Geophysical signatures of mineral systems: more than bumps'. The workshop addresses the fact that as we deplete…
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