Technical Program

Speed talk posters are located in the last row of posters in the exhibit hall.
They are not listed in the pocket program but you can find them in the speed talks listing.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Plenary Sessions
8:15am – 8:30am	Welcoming remarks Stephen Enders, Conference Chair
	Recent Breakthroughs in Economic Geology Patrick Redmond, Teck
8:30am – 9:00am	Spatial periodicity in self-organized critical ore systems Nick Hayward (Invited Speaker)
9:00am – 9:30am	Discovery of the Tara deep Zn-Pb mineralization at the Boliden Tara Mine, Navan, Ireland John Ashton (SGA Invited Speaker)
9:30am – 9:50am	Application of zircons as a magmatic fertility proxy in global porphyry exploration Aldo Vasquez
9:50am – 10:10am	Alteration in gold systems and its significance in interpreting results from 3D seismic surveys Don Pridmore
10:10am – 10:40am	Break
	Integrating Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics Jon Woodhead, JAW Consulting
10:40am – 11:10am	3D uncertainty in contrasting geological scenarios Mark Jessell (Invited Speaker)
11:10am – 11:35am	Exploration success: Strategic elements, technology, and innovation François Robert (Invited Speaker), Rob Krcmarov
11:35am – 12:00pm	The making of a metal belt: insights from New Zealand's active accretionary orogen Julie Rowland
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch
	Integrating Petroleum and Minerals Systems Approaches to Sedimentary Basins Richard Chuchla, University of Texas at Austin | Cam McCuaig, BHP
1:00pm – 1:30pm	The power of a systems approach to minerals and petroleum exploration in sedimentary basins Cam McCuaig (Invited Speaker)
1:30pm – 1:55pm	Processes controlling sedimentary basin resources Larry Cathles (Invited Speaker)
1:55pm – 2:20pm	Fluid flow around evolving salt structures and their influence on metal deposits Mike Hudec (Invited Speaker)
2:20pm – 2:45pm	Seawater evaporation and density-driven fluid flow: Fluid source and drive for the formation of sedex zinc-lead-silver deposits Poul Emsbo
2:45pm – 3:10pm	Fault-controlled fluid flow in sediment-hosted mineral deposits John Walsh (Invited Speaker)
3:10pm – 3:40pm	Break
	Societal Implications Stephen Enders
3:40pm – 4:05pm	MeTooMining - It is Time to Start the Conversation! Susan Lomas (Invited Speaker)
4:05pm – 4:30pm	Proposed mercury abatement and disposal at Donlin gold, Western Alaska: Geology, stakeholders, and mine permitting Ben Teschner
	SEG Distinguished Lecturer
4:30pm – 5:10pm	Fluid evolution and selective metal enrichment in magmatic-hydrothermal Cu-Au ore systems Christoph Heinrich (2018 SEG Distinguished Lecturer)

Monday, September 24, 2018

*Presenting author is a student

	Session 1	Session 2
	Technology and Energy Metals Simon Jowitt, UNLV | Patrick Highsmith, Pure Energy Minerals	Mineral Exploration Footprints Project Michael Lesher, Laurentian University
8:15am – 8:40am	Critical minerals and modern engineered materials Roderick Eggert (Invited Speaker)	Mineral exploration footprints project - Overview Michael Lesher (Invited Speaker)
8:40am – 9:05am	An overview of global critical metal resources: Current and future scenarios and implications for supply security Simon Jowitt (Invited Speaker), Gavin Mudd	Footprints: Data integration methodologies and workflows Leonardo Feltrin (Invited Speaker)
9:05am – 9:25am	Iron deficiency and cobalt concentration in sediment-hosted copper deposits Isabel Barton	Exploration footprint of the Highland Valley porphyry copper deposit Robert Lee (Invited Speaker)
9:25am – 9:45am	Isotopic constraints on ore-grade enrichment of rare earth elements in carbonatites: The Elk Creek carbonatite example Philip Verplanck	Exploration footprint of the McArthur River and Millenium unconformity uranium deposits Kevin Ansdell (Invited Speaker)
9:45am – 10:05am	The geology and petrogenesis of the Earl Grey albite-spodumene pegmatite: Implications for mineralogical and geochemical zonation in rare-element pegmatites Ben Cerlienco	Exploration footprint of the Canadian Malartic disseminated gold deposit Stephane Perrouty (Invited Speaker)
10:05am – 10:35am	Break
10:35am – 11:00am	Athabasca Basin uranium deposits – variations in footprints and exploration implications Alexandre Aubin

	Session 3	Session 4
	Infrastructure Metals Adam Simon, University of Michigan Ann Arbor | Caroline Perring, BHP	Precious Metals Paul Bartos, AngloGold Ashanti
10:35am – 11:00am		Archean gold: Lode deposits, silver isotopes, magmatic degassing, and early life on the Kaapvaal craton Christoph Heinrich (2018 SEG Distinguished Lecturer)
11:00am – 11:25am	Discovery, geologic setting and controls on iron mineralization, South Flank, Western Australia Caroline Perring	The Archean Karagba-Chauffeur-Durba (KCD) gold deposit in the Kibali district, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo Carlos Vargas
11:25am – 11:50am	The geology and economics of the giant Molo graphite deposit, southern Madagascar Craig Scherba	Redefining the timing of orogenic gold mineralization in the Guiana Shield: new U-Pb evidence from the Karouni gold deposits Michael Tedeschi*
11:50am – 12:10pm	A holistic model that combines igneous and magmatic-hydrothermal processes to explain Kiruna-type iron oxide-apatite deposits and iron-oxide-copper-gold deposits as products of a single evolving ore system Adam Simon (Invited Speaker)	Discovery and geology of the Windfall Lake Gold Project Ruben Padilla
12:10pm – 12:30pm	The chemistry and textures of magnetite from the Candelaria IOCG deposit and Quince IOA prospect in the Chilean iron belt Maria Mustafa*	Geology and genesis of the Coffee gold deposit, west-central Yukon Territory: Implications for the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of the North American Cordillera Kathryn MacWilliam*
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch

	Session 5	Session 6
	Base Metals Wolf Schuh, Freeport | Cathy Knight, Khoemacau	Precious Metals Paul Bartos, AngloGold Ashanti
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Impact of exhalative hydrothermal systems on marine chemistry: Applications for ore genesis and mineral exploration Poul Emsbo (Invited Speaker)	The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex: A new economic frontier Judith Kinnaird (Invited Speaker), Iain McDonald
2:00pm – 2:25pm	Structural configuration of the Central African Copperbelt, with particular reference to the Congolese arm: Roles of evaporites in structural evolution, basin hydrology, and ore location David Selley (Invited Speaker)	Anhydrite assimilation by Bushveld ultramafic melts and its ore-petrological consequences Marina Yudovskaya (Invited Speaker)
2:25pm – 2:45pm	Regional to deposit scale controls on base metal mineralization in the Kalahari Copper Belt, Botswana defined by detailed lithostratigraphy and magnetic lithostratigraphy Wes Hall (Invited Speaker)	Magmatic and tectonic constraints on the formation of the unique PGE-Cu-Ni Norilsk deposits, Siberian Trap province Nadezhda Krivolutskaya (Invited Speaker)
2:45pm – 3:05pm	The importance of hydrocarbon-water interaction in sedimentary-hosted ore deposits Nicole Hurtig	Genetic links between the development of extensional basins and the formation of low sulfidation epithermal deposits Justin Milliard*
3:05pm – 3:35pm	Break
3:35pm – 3:55pm	Segmented fault arrays and their control on Irish Zn-Pb deposits John Guven	Geology of the Esperanza gold skarn deposit, Morelos, Mexico Jeffrey Edelen

	Speed Talks 1 Thematic - Magmatic-Associated BM, IOCG, G3 David Broughton, Stephen Enders		Geoscience Education Forum Vicki McConnell, GSA
3:55pm – 4:00pm	From arc magmas to ores (FAMOS): A multidisciplinary research project Investigating porphyry ore genesis in subduction zones Jamie Wilkinson	3:55pm – 4:00pm	Introduction Vicki McConnell
4:00pm – 4:05pm	Metals and volatiles partitioning during protracted magma differentiation from the deep to upper crust Oliver Higgins*	4:00pm – 4:15pm	The pipeline problem Heather Houlton, AGI
4:05pm – 4:10pm	Porphyry-style alteration and vein types of the Far Southeast porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Mankanyan district, Philippines Michael Calder	4:15pm – 4:30pm	MGSS standards: Challenge/opportunity David Thesenga, Dawson School, CO
4:10pm – 4:15pm	What lies beneath; Mapping conductive zones within porphyry copper systems Ken Witherly	4:30pm – 4:45pm	Industry solutions Samuel Moore, GeoForce, Austin, TX
4:15pm – 4:20pm	White mica geochemistry of the Copper Cliff porphyry Cu deposit: Insights from a vectoring tool applied to exploration Camilo Uribe Mogollon*	4:45pm – 5:00pm	Professional society solutions Dean Moosavi, GSA
4:20pm – 4:25pm	Using geochemistry and B-isotopes of hydrothermal tourmaline and mica to trace metals and fluid sources in the world-class Panasqueira W-Sn-Cu deposit (Portugal) Marta Codeço*	5:00pm – 5:15pm	Panel discussion
4:25pm – 4:30pm	TBD
4:30pm – 4:35pm	Rare earth element minerals and their compositional variation in the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia Danielle Schmandt*
4:35pm – 4:40pm	Controls on VMS ore-forming processes in ancient successions — a study of the Cambro-Ordovician Ming VMS deposit, Newfoundland Appalachians, Canada Jean-Luc Pilote
4:40pm – 4:45pm	Structural controls and hydrothermal alteration of the Cascavel and Sertão gold deposits, Goiás, central Brazil Jessica Bogossian*
4:45pm – 4:50pm	Integrated approaches to the temporal, spatial, thermal, and geochemical evolution of the Chilean iron belt Mark Barton
4:50pm – 4:55pm	Iron oxide copper gold mineralization formed during transpression, Candelaria-Punta del Cobre district, northern Chile Irene del Real Contreras*
4:55pm – 5:00pm	Elemental trends in criticality studies Sarah Hayes
5:00pm – 5:05pm	Seismic exploration for orogenic gold in Western Australia: Identifying midcrustal controls through to drill targeting with 3D seismic Greg Turner
5:05pm – 5:10pm	Use of ambient noise surface wave tomography in mineral resource exploration and evaluation Dan Hollis
5:10pm – 5:15pm	Lithospheric magnetotelluric imaging for regional mineral resource exploration Benjamin Murphy*

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

*Presenting author is a student

	Session 7	Session 8
	Integrating Petroleum and Minerals Systems Approaches to Sedimentary Basins Richard Chuchla, University of Texas at Austin | Cam McCuaig, BHP	Base Metals Wolf Schuh, Freeport-McMoRan | Cathy Knight, Khoemacau
8:15am – 8:40am	Carlin-type mineralization in a sequence stratigraphic context Richard Chuchla (Invited Speaker), Kevin Bohacs	Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits, Peru: Magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of adjacent systems Ralph Stegen (Invited Speaker), Mark Barton
8:40am – 9:05am	Yikes, My source rock is now my reservoir - The strange underworld of unconventional hydrocarbons Quinn Passey (Invited Speaker)	Geologic controls on hypogene mineralization at the Zaldivar porphyry copper-gold deposit, Escondida district, northern Chile José Perelló (Invited Speaker)
9:05am – 9:25am	Basin dynamics and geochemistry during deposition of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation (northwestern Canada) Elizabeth Turner	Characteristics of intrusion-related copper-bearing tourmaline breccia pipes Douglas Kirwin
9:25am – 9:45am	Geology of the Kakanda deposits, DRC Helen Twigg*	Use and limitations of zircon compositions during exploration for intrusion-centered deposits Keiko Hattori
9:45am – 10:05am	Geochemistry of fluid inclusions, sequence stratigraphy, and geophysics refine exploration priorities for sediment-hosted copper deposits in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift Jeff Mauk	The Exploration and Evaluation of Copper Heap Leach-SXEW Deposits: Why Geologists should Manage the Process John Dreier
10:05am – 10:25am	Basin-scale fluid flow and alteration associated with the White Pine Cu-Ag deposit, Michigan, USA Simon Jones*	Arizona Mining's Taylor deposit – A world-class zinc, lead, and silver discovery Don Taylor
10:25am – 10:55am	Break

	Session 9	Session 10
	Integrating Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics Jon Woodhead, JAW Consulting	Precious Metals Paul Bartos, AngloGold Ashanti
10:55am – 11:20am	Integration of regional to deposit scale geological, geochemical, and geophysical data from Mesoproterozoic IOA-IOCG systems on the SE margin of Laurentia Albert Hofstra	Core and rim textures of Carlin-type pyrite – key discriminators of a new discovery? Jean Cline
11:20am – 11:45am	Dismantling geo-silos: An integrated model for Cu porphyry in the Quesnel terrane, British Columbia Rebecca Montsion	Gold mineralization in the Rain-Railroad district, southern Carlin trend, Nevada: Investigation into shallow Carlin-type and intrusion-related gold deposits Elizabeth Hollingsworth*
11:45am – 12:10pm	Integrating Geophysical and Geochemical Data to Understand the Relationships Between Geodynamics, Volcanism, and Massive Sulfide Formation in Back-Arc Basins Melissa Anderson	Ore-forming mechanisms at the Sangilo epithermal deposit, Baguio mineral district, Philippines: Insights from paragenetic and fluid inclusion studies of the Taka Barr vein Karl Jabagat
12:10pm – 12:30pm	Predictive modelling applied to country-scale mineral exploration: From theory to practice Jean-Marc Lulin	A relay ramp extensional structural style for the Paleozoic epithermal Bayan Khundii gold project, Gobi Desert, Mongolia Armelle Kloppenburg
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch

	Speed Talks 2 Thematic - Metals and Processes in Basins David Broughton	Speed Talks 3 Thematic - Au Stephen Enders
1:30pm – 1:35pm	Critical element accumulations within black shales: selenium, tellurium and cobalt enrichment during the Neoproterozoic atmospheric oxygenation event Joseph Armstrong*	Defining the carbonate alteration footprint of the Cortez Hills Carlin-type gold deposit, Nevada, using 13C and 18O stable isotopes and geochemistry as an exploration tool Christopher Herron*
1:35pm – 1:40pm	Architecture of Neoproterozoic carbonate host rocks underlies the distribution of Zn-and Cu ore at Kipushi (DRC) and Gayna River (Canada) Elizabeth Turner	Palinspastic restoration of the dismembered Roberts Mountains thrust, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada: Implications for exploration of concealed Carlin-type deposits Carson Richardson
1:40pm – 1:45pm	Structural Geology of the Kansanshi Cu-Au Deposit, Northwestern Province, Zambia Timothy MacIntyre*	Temporal and spatial constraints on Carlin-type gold deposits at the Pequop Mountains, Nevada Ajeet Milliard*
1:45pm – 1:50pm	Bitumen-bearing stratabound Cu-(Ag) deposits in northern-central Chile: An active role for liquid hydrocarbons? Andrea Herazo*	Hydrothermal features in siliciclastic-volcanic rocks above carbonate-hosted high-grade ore at the Turquoise Ridge Carlin-type gold deposit Robert Johnson*
1:50pm – 1:55pm	3D mineral footprints of an undercover sediment-hosted polymetallic Abra ore system, Western Australia Heta Lampinen*	Distal disseminated gold mineralization in the Hunjiang Basin, Jilin province, China: The White Mountain sediment-hosted gold deposit Halley Keevil*
1:55pm – 2:00pm	Role of Jurassic salt tectonics in the structural shaping of MVT Pb-Zn deposits and hydrocarbon traps in Peru, and implications for exploration Raúl Berrospi*	Controls on epithermal gold-silver mineralization and alteration at the Gravel Creek Deposit, Elko County, Nevada Nicholas Hillemeyer*

Session 11
	Looking to the Future John Thompson (Cornell University), Lluís Fontboté (Geneva)
3:30pm – 3:45pm	Introduction and presentation of Awards for Student Presenters John Thompson, Regina Baumgartner
3:45pm – 5:05pm	Who will be doing grassroots exploration and what will they be doing? Charles Funk (Invited Speaker)
4:05pm – 4:25pm	How far can we go to maximize value through mine/project exploration? Pablo Mejia (Invited Speaker)
4:25pm – 4:45pm	How will we characterize ore bodies from day one and deliver value? Regina Baumgartner (Invited Speaker)
4:45pm – 5:05pm	The future of geoscience in exploration? Holistic skills to harness the rising technological tide Elizabeth Sharman
5:05pm – 5:25pm	What will academic and government research look like and how will it benefit exploration? Murray Hitzman (Invited Speaker)
5:25pm – 5:30pm	Closing comments Lluis Fontboté

5:30pm

Conference closing remarks Stephen Enders, SEG 2018 Conference Chair