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The AusIMM Geoscience Society Distinguished Lecture Series
Registrations are now open for the AusIMM Geoscience Society Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Neil Phillips, who will be presenting Exploration for gold: the different consequences of multiple discoveries or lack of success.
Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
Time: 5:15pm for 5:45pm start
Venue: Royal Exchange of Sydney
1 Gresham St
SYDNEY
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The NSW Mineral Exploration & Investment Conference
is a biennial event that the Department has organised since 1993. The next conference will be held on
Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 July 2013
at the Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach.
For information contact:
Vince Fallico | Project Officer | Industry Coordination | Division of Resources and Energy|
T: 02 8281 7340| F: 02 8281 7452 | M: 0447 828 551
E: vince.fallico@dwe.nsw.gov.au
W: www.trade.nsw.gov.au
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The ASEG and PESA 23rd International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition will be held in Melbourne from
August 11th to 14th, 2013.
The theme for the conference is “The Eureka Moment” – capturing ASEG’s and PESA’s quest for discovery, insight and learning, but also with a sub-contextual nod to the golden riches of Victoria’s past.
Details at:
http://www.aseg-pesa2013.com.au/
Recommended Reading
The History of the CSA Mine, Cobar by Ken McQueen
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The great Canadian Corporate mining disaster of 2002 to 2006 - How Inco & Falconbridge missed the merger boat. Jacquie McNish, Toronto's Globe and Mail
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Buy Geology of Queensland: a milestone in geological knowledge
The Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ) invites you to purchase its new book,
Geology of Queensland,
a modern and comprehensive description and detailed analysis of the State's geology.
"The Hope Factor"
Mineral Discoveries in Australia, Papua New Guinea & The Philippines
A New Book by Tony Hope
Order Form
Endorsements
"Burke & Wills - The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition"
Edited by E. B. Joyce and D. A. McCann
Cover
Royal Society of Victoria - Info & Order Form
CSIRO - Info & Order Form
Thanks to Gnomic's Chrissy Maguire
Ian Plimer's New Book - How to Get Expelled from School
Order Form
Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change?
Now is your chance to find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with answers
for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and politicians.
The rent-seeking alarmists of the climate industry fiddle
the temperature record and withhold raw data, computer codes and information from
scrutiny. Government propagandists bombard us with misinformation. Computer predictions of a scary future don’t agree with measurements. In the
past natural climate changes have been larger and more rapid than the worst case
predictions - yet humans and other species adapted. Is human-induced global warming the biggest financial
and scientific scam in history? If it is, we will all pay dearly.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Enjoy the music while you peruse the site and spare a thought for Andi Flower who, very sadly, is no longer with us.
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Teacher Earth Science Education Programme
Teacher Earth Science Education Programme (TESEP) is seeking partners to help fund this initiative to encourage more secondary school students to consider careers in earth sciences.
TESEP has received many new partners including the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and the Geological Society of Australia (GSA), university groups from Macquarie, Sydney and Melbourne and companies such as Woodside, Beach Petroleum and GeoDynamics. In addition TESEP has partnered with the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA). ASTA has agreed to administer the business operations of TESEP and provide all necessary logistical support in running the TESEP workshops and other activities.
TESEP has developed a national plan to run teacher professional development workshops on key areas of topical interest and curriculum relevance between 2008 and 2010 and may be in a position to commence operations mid year. However, to ensure we can commence in 2008 we need further partners to come on board. Only a few more partners and we will be assured of commencing this year but if we get many more we can be not only certain of starting but confident of really making a big impact as we go forward into 2009 and 2010.
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CLIMATE COMMISSION - THE CRITICAL DECADE. New South Wales climate impacts and opportunities
Be very afraid, be very guilty, don't argue, all truth resides with THE CLIMATE COMMISSION. They're by, for and from the Government, all the data is from Government agencies, all the predictions derive from Government agency computer models and they're here to help and save us ---- from ourselves..... Read it, review the source data and see for yourself.
Then read James Delingpole's excellent recent UK-published work "Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future". It's also available in the US, and in Australia as "Killing the Earth to Save It". His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com.
But, notwithstanding the sceptics' courageous efforts, the crap continues....
CLEAN ENERGY REGULATOR
which contains
Liable Entities - the 'Big Polluters'....
with
Liable Entities Public Information Database (LEPID)
Update from Joe Aston's Rear Window, AFR, Tuesday 16th October 2012 following Senate Estimates quizzing:
New Canberra headquarters, for Greg Combet's crew at the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, designed by an architect known as Nishi with the internal fit-out budgeted at $20.5 million.The headquarters will have a stainless steel wine cabinet in the executive dining room facility, $200,000 was budgeted for whitegoods including $20,175 for Nespresso coffee machines in eight staff kitchens.....so the workers (presumably members of working families) won't have to leave the building......
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A LINK FOR GREENHOUSE SCEPTICS
AND ANOTHER
for those of you who need to know just how CO2 performs....
Kim's Words of Wisdom.....
Climate change never stops - it's changing all the time and, while we don't have a choice, I'll take warming over cooling any day.
Ice sheets are a bugger to grow stuff in......
&
Nature abhors a vacuum. On this very dynamic, life-infested planet, any organism that can will exploit any abundance of any element, molecule or compound that’s available for it to consume, to build with or on until balance is restored. Keep calm, and try and get out more.
Subversive, but entertaining stuff from the Anthropogenic Climate Change Sceptics (Militant Wing)
Hmmm.....
“Where disbelief in the possibility of an earthquake, a tornado, or a flood is strong, the resultant damages from the event are likely to be greater than where awareness of the danger leads to effective precautionary action” Burton I. and Kates R., 1964, “The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management”, Natural Resources Journal, vol.3, pp. 412-441.
See also:
‘Antipodean England’? A History of Drought, Fire and Flood in Tasmania from European Settlement in 1803 to the 1960s.
by Kathryn Evans BA (University of Tasmania), MA Public History (Monash University)
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania (January 2012).
MINES & WINES CONFERENCE 2006
The Presentations, Abstracts and Powerpoints now available - Click Here
Gnomic Exploration Services always has places for more Mineral Exploration Geologists, Lab and Field Technicians and other exploration & mine personnel
E-mail here for details
Review the Gnomic Web Site for Australia-wide and Overseas Opportunities
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Ron Manners' Various Books - Kalgoorlie Histories --- "Never a Dull Moment" and "Kanowna's Barrowman" |
TERRA SEARCH
Specialists in Mineral Exploration and Computing
Recommended Reading/Viewing
"Mining in the Next 20 Years" - A Cordilleran Roundup Presentation by
Dr Norman B. Keevil, Teck Cominco Limited, January 29th, 2003
Notes (58 KB, .pdf - download and print these first) & then view the Slides (552 KB, .pdf).
Mineral Exploration Photos
Images from Gnomes around the Planet
If you're a Gnome from the past, and want to get in touch -
e-mail here. Visit the the photo gallery
Gnomic Photo Gallery
The Correspondence Page has information about Geoff Derrick's Century Zinc Mine Atlas
So go L
K!
AIG HANDBOOK 5
Structural Logging of Drill Core
Roger Marjoribanks
.pdf Flyer Here
"Geological Retrospective" - "Has Much Changed for the Better?" - "For the Worse?"
OR - "Plugger's Dog - A Busy Hound?" A time-trip to 1997 .....remember Busang....?
with Geoff "Nostradamus" Derrick.
Other Busang Memories from Terry Leach
Alteration and Mineralisation in the Busang Gold Prospect, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Alteration and Mineralisation in Drillcore from the Busang Prospect, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
*AMIRA's Data Metallogenica Centre has been updated. Information on progress, sponsors and supporters is available
by Clicking Here *
AIG has a Video Library of Conferences and Presentations. The following Videos are available for loan:
Exploration Strategies Symposium 2001
COMMENTS PAGE
If you aren't aware of this amazing rock and mineral collection from orebodies from around the world then you should be!
Annual unlimited access subscriptions are being made available for $200, and to SEG members at a 50% discount (A$100) as SEG provided substantial financial assistance in the early days of Data Metallogenica's conception.
Various corporate subscriptions are available.
Murray Basin Mineral Sands
NSW Integrated Tectonic
Structural and Geophysical Maps
NSW DMR Investment Conference
After 2000-The Future of
Mining-AusIMM
"Exploration Under Cover"
(Abstracts)
SMEDG Talk-Kempfield
David Lowell at SMEDG
and, also, at the Sydney Mining Club.
Details from David Timms 02 9482 8833
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