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 This two-day course, aimed at exploration geologists and graduate students, provides a practical overview of porphyry deposits emphasizing exploration targeting and includes hands-on exercises using maps and rock samples from selected alkalic and calc alkalic deposits.

Presenters: Dr. Thomas Bissig and Dr. Farhad Bouzari

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 Offered by Colegio de Geólogos de Bolivia and the SEG Bolivia Student Chapter.

Leaders and speakers:

• Dr. Osvaldo Arce-Burgoa (SEG 2008 F), Bolivia
• Dr. Stewart D. Redwood (SEG 1992 F), Panama
• Dr. Kevin B. Heather (SEG 1998 F), Chile

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 The course will be of particular value to early-career exploration geologists, advanced students, and managers coordinating multidisciplinary exploration teams. Five days of lectures and class activities culminate in a field day at the Cripple Creek and Victor gold mine. Curriculum includes reviews of important mineral deposit models, exploration program design, geochemical exploration techniques, geophysical exploration methods, drilling and sample recovery, recognition and interpretation of rock alteration, QA/QC protocols, and integrated interpretation of complementary geotechnical data sets. Case studies with a focus on "best work practices" will be highlighted. Instructors have extensive worldwide experience.

Instructors: Odin Christensen (Coordinator), Craig Beasley, Graham Closs, Jeff Jaacks, Dave Johnson, Dave Maher, Denis Rousseau, Tommy Thompson, and Lori Wickert

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 Please visit the Goldschmidt 2014 website to learn about registration, themes, dates, and more.

 Celebrating 50 years of geological service to Namibia.

Second Circular

 Online registration for International Mineralogical Association's IMA 2014 is now open.

Call for Abstracts deadline: March 10, 2014
Early Bird Registration deadline: April 17, 2014

 SEG 2014: Building Exploration Capability for the 21st Century

As the global exploration industry confronts the twin megatrends of increasing raw material demand and depletion of near surface deposits, we need to build a capability to rise to this challenge. Doing this will require the best new science, the best new tools, and the best new ways of pragmatically applying them. It will also need new concepts and technologies from fi elds that we currently don’t even consider as economic geology. Much of this is already happening today.

Call for Papers Abstract deadline: April 1, 2014

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 Now accepting short course proposals.

 Geological Society of Nevada's 2015 Symposium: New Concepts and Discoveries. Even as much as the world has become available for exploration over the past decade, miners continue to return to Nevada. Why? Political stability, transparent regulatory environment, good infrastructure and great geological potential. Miners return to focus on Nevada's geology and its important mineral deposit types: Carlin, epithermal and intrusion-related gold and silver, as well as other deposit types (porphyry Cu and Mo, IOCG and industrial materials) are also rising in importance.

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