Date: February 3-4, 2024
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm SAST (UTC+2)
Location: University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Format: Two-day in-person short course consisting of dynamic lectures and generous time for participant Q&A sessions.
Presenters: Richard Goldfarb, Glen Nwaila, Bob Foster, and Caitlin Jones
Attendee Maximum: 50
20% of spaces are reserved for students and offered at a discounted rate.
Course Support
Thank you to our supporter, University of Cape Town - Department of Geological Sciences.
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Course Overview
This two-day course will focus on the geology of and exploration for orogenic gold deposits, the most widespread type of gold deposit globally. Leading experts will provide descriptions of the most important Precambrian and Phanerozoic examples of orogenic gold ores formed in the world's young accretionary orogens and old cratonic greenstone belts.
Topics to be covered include tectonic and structural controls, geological characteristics, geochemical and geophysical signatures, geochronological relationships, and exploration strategies. A large component of the program will be the detailed evaluation of gold metallogenesis and recent exploration successes throughout Africa.
Richard Goldfarb will focus on the general geology, alteration, mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis of this family of deposits. He will discuss their distribution in the Phanerozoic and features of these younger deposits that relate to a better understanding of the Precambrian gold provinces. Overlapping features with the intrusion-related and Carlin-type deposits will be evaluated to better understand the formation and different exploration criteria for each of these.
Bob Foster will provide detailed descriptions of the Archean, Paleoproterozoic, and Neoproterozoic gold provinces and their ores across the entirety of the African continent. These will include details of the major deposits of the Zimbabwe, Kaapvaal, Tanzania, and West African cratons, with important insights to the complexities of the gold-endowed Barberton Greenstone Belt contributed by Caitlin Jones.
The growing recognition of the importance of Neoproterozoic/Pan-African terranes will also be addressed, focusing on the world's largest accretionary arc complex in North Africa and on the recent exploration successes in Namibia that have led to the country becoming a significant gold producer. Key features of the giant Witwatersrand gold deposits will be described by Glen Nwaila, who will also review the latest thinking about the genesis of the mineralization.
The course is aimed at geoscientists from both industry and academia, as well as students of economic geology who desire a comprehensive understanding of modern concepts on the geology of orogenic gold deposits.
Course Agenda
Presenters
Richard Goldfarb
Goldfarb Global Gold
Richard is a research professor at Colorado School of Mines and China U. of Geosciences Beijing, as well as USA-based consulting geologist; spent 35 years as research geologist at USGS, specializing in the geology and geochemistry of orogenic gold.
Bob Foster
Bob Foster & Associates
Bob is a UK-based consulting geologist who commenced his career in Zimbabwe and most recently spent 10 years as Chief Executive of AIM-listed Stratex International, focused on gold exploration and project development in Africa and Turkey.
Glen Nwaila
Wits Mining Institute
Glen is a professionally registered natural scientist and the Director of the Wits Mining Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany) and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He has a broad range of experience in economic geology, geometallurgy, innovation and technology development, as well as machine learning. In the past 10 years, his primary focus has been on the metallogeny of Sediment-hosted gold deposits and geometallurgy, particularly the Witwatersrand-type gold deposits. Glen is wholly involved in the South African mining innovation ecosystem as a member of multiple initiatives driven by the minerals industry and serves as a guest editor in several journals, including the South African Journal of Geology.
Caitlin Jones
TECT Consulting
Caitlin is a Consulting Geoscientist at Tect Geological Consulting in South Africa, where she focusses on the 3D geomodelling of structurally-complex orebodies and their host rock sequences in LeapfrogGeo. Caitlin holds an M.Sc. in Structural and Economic Geology from the University of Stellenbosch. Her research for Barberton Mines (Pty) Ltd focused on the structural controls of hydrothermal fluid floe and gold mineralization within the Sheba and Fairview Mines of the Barberton Greenstone Belt.
Registration
Early deadline: January 19, 2024
Regular deadline: January 26, 2024
Attendee Maximum: 50
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Early |
Regular |
| SEG Member |
US$995 |
US$1,095 |
| SEG Student Member |
US$195 |
US$245 |
| Non-member |
US$1,195 |
US$1,295 |
| All prices are in United States dollars (USD). SEG reserves the right to cancel this event should minimum attendance numbers not be met by January 12, 2024. All registrants will be given a full refund should SEG cancel the course. Cancellation policy, event photography, dietary restrictions, and more are detailed in the SEG Terms and Conditions.
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