SC9-Giant Deposits of Metals: Today and Tomorrow

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Dates: Saturday, January 21 & Sunday, January 22
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location: The Westin Bayshore – Stanley Park Ballroon, Salon 3, level 2
Presented by: AME BC; and Peter Laznicka, Metallogenica Consulting Adelaide (formerly University of Manitoba and Founder, Data Metallogenica)
Maximum Capacity: 100
Sponsored by: TBA

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Between 60% and 90% of new (not recycled) metals supply comes from exceptionally large (giant, world class) deposits. Globalization has now made much of the world accessible to exploration, property acquisition and investment. Since exploration targeting is still heavily dependent on successful precedents and models, familiarity with the most important modern mineralization types and their geological setting is essential. The main body of this two-day course, after brief introductory and closing sections, is a comprehensive review of today’s and tomorrow’s significant accumulations of industrial metals, arranged by commodity groups. After brief summary of economic and technological properties of metals the emphasis will be on geological characteristics such as where the deposits are, their appearance, how were they discovered, their mineral systems, field indicators and future prospective areas. Some politico-economic and environmental constraints will also be included.

This is an eyewitness account based on personal familiarity with some 4000 deposits in 85+ countries, also described in Laznicka’s 960 page book Giant Metallic Deposits-Future Sources of Industrial Metals (Springer 2010, now in its 2nd edition). The book descriptions are linked to images in www.datametallogenica.com, an expert system of world’s ores supported by actual rock and ore sets and their on-line images. The course is aimed at exploration practitioners, field geologists, managers, resource specialists, and investors. Visual characteristics that can be recognized, traced and mapped in the field are emphasized.

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