Plenary Session Keynote Speakers

David Cohen
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Pining for an anomaly: Vectoring towards mineralisation using biogeochemistry
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David Cooke
Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES), University of Tasmania
Geological evolution of the Lihir gold deposit, Papua New Guinea
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Dave Craw
Geology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Orogenic gold mining and exploration in the Otago Schist, New Zealand
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Cornel de Ronde
GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Submarine hydrothermal systems as the shallow parts of porphyry Cu systems: the case for Brothers volcano
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Angela Escolme
Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES), University of Tasmania
Trace element deportment – knowledge is power
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Scott Halley
Mineral Mapping Pty Ltd, Hawley Beach, Tasmania, Australia
Estimation of gangue mineral percentages from routine drill hole analyses
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Keenan Jennings
BHP Metals Exploration
Mines and mineralisation – How a quality gap illustrates the need to enhance search spaces
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Teresa McGrath
Gold Technology, Group, WA School of Mines; Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Gravity Recovery of Gold - Past, Present and Future
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Sandra Occhipinti
CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia
Resourcing a low emissions future through mineral discovery and responsible recovery
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Anita Parbhakar-Fox
W.H Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
The critical importance of ‘secondary prospectivity’ in a dynamic global climate
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Julie Rowland (JR)
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Inherited structures and golden triggers: controls on the localisation of Cretaceous-to-Recent gold deposits, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Tobias Schlegel
CSIRO Mineral Resources, Kensington, Western Australia
Mineral zonation and ore formation in IOCG deposits: new insights from the integration of mineralogy, geochemistry and petrophysics
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Stuart Simmons
Hot Solutions Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Advances in the understanding of epithermal ore forming processes from studies of modern environments in the TVZ
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Mark Simpson 
Wairakei Research Center. GNS Science, New Zealand
Epithermal deposits of the Hauraki Goldfield, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Concurrent Session Keynote Speakers

Hooshang Asadi Haroni
Department of Mining Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. The University of Western Australia
In concurrent session: Metallogeny of Central Tethyan Belt 
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Regina Baumgartner
Teck Metals Ltd, Trail, British Columbia, Canada
In concurrent session: Complex orebodies - unlocking future resources through orebody knowledge and geometallurgy
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Nigel Cook
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
In concurrent session: Trace elements in minerals: where do we stand on the road between the holy grail and a can of worms?” 
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Anthony Harris
Newcrest Mining Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
In concurrent session: Porphyry and high sulphidation epithermal deposits
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Shawn Hood
Newcrest Mining Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
In concurrent session: Data-driven geoscience: machine learning and multivariate data analysis
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Giada Iacono-Marziano 
Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans, Université d’Orléans, France 
In concurrent session: Metallogenic processes within mafic-ultramafic magmatic systems
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John Jamieson
Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
In concurrent session: VMS Systems: modern and ancient
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Nicole Januszczak
BHP Resource Centre of Excellence, Toronto, Canada
In concurrent session: Spatial data analysis for mineral exploration
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Mark Jessell
The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
In concurrent session: Development geosciences and mineral resources for society
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Peter Megaw
Chief Exploration Officer, MAG Silver Corp, Tucson, Arizona, USA
In concurrent session: Distal signatures and vectors toward mineralisation in carbonate rocks: porphyry, skarn, vein and replacement deposits
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Dietmar Müller
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
In concurrent session:  Geochemical anomaly classification and modelling in mineral exploration
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Gregor Partington
Kenex Australia, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia
In concurrent session: Spatial data analysis for mineral exploration
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Franco Pirajno
Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia
In concurrent session: Hot spring deposits and epithermal environments
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Anthony Pochon
Geology and Economy of Mineral resources department, French Geological Survey, Orléans, France
In concurrent session: Antimony and related elements mineralisation: magmatism, fluids and sediments
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Shannon Richards
OceanaGold, Waihi, New Zealand
In concurrent session: New Zealand mineral deposits and metallogenesis
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Robert Seal
US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA
In concurrent session: Secondary prospectivity of mine waste: from metals to construction materials
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Julian Vearncombe
Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
In concurrent session: Gold in metamorphic terranes - new research approaches, new models, and new target areas
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