Program
| 8.00am | Registration |
| 9.00am | Welcome – Lindsay Gilligan PSM, Chair, Organising Committee |
| 9.10am | Keynote address – A 50-year evolution in the metallogenic understanding of accretionary orogens – Richard Sillitoe |
Session 1 – The Legacy – Chair: Tim McConachy
| 9.50am | 50 Golden Years of SMEDG – Russell Meares OAM |
| 10.20am | Gold is where you find it: 50 years of NSW mineral exploration – John Greenfield, Principal Exploration Geologist NSW, Newmont Australia |
| 10.50am | Morning Tea |
Session 2 – Breakthrough Targeting Technologies – Chair: Ian Neuss
| 11.20am | Recognition of magmatic fractionation processes from routine assay data – Scott Halley, Consultant |
| 11.50am | Exploration Geophysics – What have we done? Where are we at? Where are we going? – Katherine McKenna , Principal Geophysicist – Mineral Exploration Australia, BHP |
| 12.20pm | Empowering geologists in the exploration process – maximising data use from enabling technologies – Anthony Harris, Chief Geoscientist, Newcrest Mining |
| 12.50pm | Lunch |
Session 3 – Breakthrough Targeting Science – Chair: Jess Askew
| 1.50pm | The importance of geological mapping, core-logging and 3D geoscientific data integration in the exploration of porphyry copper-(gold) deposits – Steve Garwin, Consultant |
| 2.20pm | Radiogenic isotope mapping (Nd, Pb and Hf) – new insights into tectonics, metallogeny and mineral exploration – David L Huston, David C Champion, Kathryn Waltenberg, David Mole, Sharon Jones and Geoff Fraser – Geoscience Australia |
| 2.50pm | Waze for rocks, navigating through the crust – Mark Jessel, University of Western Australia |
| 3.20pm | Afternoon Tea |
Session 4 – The future of mineral exploration
| 3.50pm | Panel Session: Is excellence in Australian mineral exploration sustainable? Moderator – Richard Blewett PSM Panel members: Philippa Sivwright, Director for Regional Exploration, Newmont David Giles, Chief Scientific Officer, MinEx CRC Richard Lilly, NExUS Program Leader Gemma McDonagh, Director AIG |
| 5.20pm | Wrap up – Andrew Stewart, CEO & Executive Director, Xanadu Mines |
