Short Course 9:
Exploration Targeting in a Business Context

Date: Saturday, January 16 & Sunday, January 17, 2010
Location: Oak Room 1 & Oak Room 2
Presented by: AME BC & T. Campbell McCuaig (Centre for Exploration Targeting) 

This two-day course provides an overview of exploration targeting from a business perspective, as well as building the confidence of participants in how to approach the technical challenges of targeting. Topics covered include: impacts of corporate strategy and risk tolerance on exploration strategy; mineral deposit models versus mineral systems; how to translate understanding of a deposit style into mapable criteria for target generation; how to rank and prioritize targets; different approaches to mineral potential mapping and prospectivity analysis including different empirical and conceptual methods highlighting their strengths and weaknesses; terrane endowment and maturity; and human behaviour and its impact on exploration targeting. Principles in the course will be reinforced through hands-on exercises and GIS-based examples.

The course is aimed at project geologists and exploration managers from junior through to major companies, who are making technical decisions about ground selection, target generation, target ranking, and target evaluation.

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