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Day One: Tuesday, 8 April 2008
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08.00 | Registration
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08.50 | Chairperson's opening remarks
This opening session will focus on how the major mining conglomerates are sustaining their growth and profitability and will dissect some of their biggest opportunities, challenges and concerns in Asia. It will also feature a keynote
speaker representing one of Asia’s biggest mining companies highlighting their growth strategy.
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| SUSTAINING MINING INDUSTRY GROWTH: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ASIA |
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09.00 | Asian keynote:
Building Asian ‘Majors’ – Exploring the increasing influence of top Asian mining companies and their growth and global investment strategies
- Evaluating the evolution of top Asian/Chinese mining companies
- Exploring their increasing internationalisation and their growth opportunities
- Overview of China Shenhua Energy and its business directions
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| | Dr. Wen Ling, Executive Director, President & CFO, China Shenhua Energy
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09.30 | International keynote:
Accessing value in Asia - Explorations, strategic alliances and acquisitions
• Overview of Barrick Gold’s exploration strategies
• Evaluating key challenges and opportunities in Asia
• Development and investment projections in Asia
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10.00 | International keynote: Rio Tinto’s global exploration strategy and the role of the Asia Pacific the opportunities in Asia
- Overview of Rio Tinto’s exploration strategies
- Evaluating key challenges and opportunities in Asia
- Growth and investment projections in Asia
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10.30 | In conversation with keynote speakers
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| | Rico Hizon, Business & Financial News Anchor, BBC World
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11.00 | Morning refreshments
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| GLOBAL ADVANCES IN EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES |
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11.30 | Maximizing returns & minimizing risks: Learn from the latest proven mineral exploration techniques
- Reviewing exploration techniques for different terrains and deposits
- Combining existing & advanced techniques: Optimizing targeting and prospectivity across a wide range of scales
- Synchronizing existing and new exploration methodologies to fully optimise performance
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12.00 | Enhancing exploration through different methodologies and technologies
- Do the returns justify the investments: Understanding functionality and ROI
- Find out how new technologies being adopted by mining explorers in different regions and assess the effectiveness in adopting the latest innovations
- Why do companies explore outside their home territory and how is technology or environmental issues determine investments outside your own country
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12.30 | A rapid, focused methodology for mineral exploration in
Southeast Asia
- Distribution of alluvial minerals in river systems provides a usual path to the hard rock mineral source
- Suction dredge provides an information risk sample of alluvial minerals
- Geochemistry of alluvial minerals can provide important information on the style of mineralization
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13.00 | Networking lunch
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| GEOPHYSICS: GEOLOGICAL MAPPING & TARGET DEFINITION |
This session will focus on the applications of geophysical systems and processing techniques to mineral discoveries, with an emphasis on case studies. Presentations will be made by exploration and instrumentation geophysicists covering a range of geophysical methods, both airborne and on the ground.
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14.00 | High resolution airborne geophysics promoting mineral exploration and assisting target selection in under explored frontier regions
- High resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys stimulate mineral exploration
- Airborne electromagnetic, gravity and hyperspectral surveys assist early target selection
- Examples of airborne geophysics applied to uranium, gold and base metal exploration in Namibia
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14.30 | The use of probabilistic techniques for terrain scale to regional scale targeting
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Mineral exploration has traditionally delivered negative returns to shareholders and most targeting techniques have not delivered the exploration successes to change these odds
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Probabilistic techniques involving Monte Carlo simulations to exploration targeting with success rates many times the industry average
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The search for porphyry copper mineralization in North America and Australia will be used as an example of the application of the Monte Carlo targeting technique
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15.00 | 3D Mineral mapping to expedite the exploration process and discovery
- Current and emerging opportunities and constraints in satellite, airborne and ground-based mineral mapping
- Empowering the geoscientist with mineralogy
- From “pre-competitive” mineral mapping data to geological information and exploration targets
- Operational access of voluminous mineral mapping information
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| | Dr Tom Cudahy, Geologist and Group Leader for Minerals and Environmental Sensing, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
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15.30 | Speed Networking!
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16.00 | Afternoon refreshments
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| GEOCHEMISTRY: RESOURCE CLASSIFICATION AND ESTIMATION |
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16.30 | International reporting standards of mineral resource and reserve classification & estimation
- Identifying minimum standards, recommendations and guidelines for public reporting of exploration results, mineral resources and mineral reserves
- Understanding reporting terminology: Classification systems for tonnage and grade estimates of mineral resources and mineral reserves
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17.00 | Case study: Reveal the true value of your project
- Indicated resources and measured resources classification
- Resources estimation: Potentially economically and technically feasible, and those which are not
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17.30 | Conference summary & close of day one
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18.30 | Welcome Networking Cocktail and Trivia Night!
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Day Two: Wednesday, 9 April 2008
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| GEOLOGICAL & HYDROGEOLOGICAL
MAPPING OF ASIA PACIFIC |
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09.00 | Presenting the latest geological mapping of mineral
reserves in Asia
Bringing together leading geological survey organizations
across Asia and internationally, this 1.5 hour presentation
will provide you with the latest findings, discoveries and
detailed mapping of mineral reserves in Asia.
- Mineral resources map and dataset of East Asia and their
applications
- Geological features of the Kon Queng magnesite deposit,
central of Vietnam
- Major mineral deposits and potential resources of Pakistan
- The impact of government pre-competitive geophysical
data to the exploration
- Exploration significance and diversity of mineral deposit
types in South China and mainland SE Asia
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| | Dr Yasushi Watanabe, Leader of Mineral Resources Research Group, Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan Dr Ngo Van Minh, Chief Geologist, Geological Division, Department of Geology and Mineral of Vietnam Mr Ian Tyler, Manager, North Australian Craton Mapping , Geological Survey of Western Australia Dr Khin Zaw, Associate Professor & Leader of 'Ore Deposits of SE Asia Project', CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania
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10.30 | Q&A time with session speakers
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10.45 | Morning refreshments
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| DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION & MANAGEMENT OF EXPLORATION PROGRAMMES |
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11.15 | Mindoro Nickel, the Philippines – From greenfield exploration to bankable feasibility study
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11.45 | Designing, implementing and managing an exploration program: International vs. Chinese methods of exploration
- Chinese method of exploration, database management
and QA/QC
- Differences in JORC compliant resource estimation and
Chinese categories and techniques
- Problems encountered in management and implementation
of exploration programs in China
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| | Mr Steve Boda, Exploration and Resource Manager, Lixian Project, Dragon Mountain Gold
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12.15 | A painless transition from exploration to development through quality control
- Choice of sampling and analytical techniques
- Database management
- Identifying and incorporating new technologies and techniques
- Ensuring data are adequate for resource and reserve estimation and mine and plant design
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12.45 | Networking lunch
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| ENHANCING DATA PROCESSING, ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT |
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14.00 | Applications of mineral prospectivity mapping:
Reducing uncertainty in area selection and targeting
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| | Dr Warick Brown, MCA Lecturer/MSc Coordinator, Centre for Exploration Targeting (M006), The University of Western Australia
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14.30 | Data-driven, knowledge extraction for resource discovery
- Self Organizing Maps: A tool for finding patterns and relationships in complex and diverse exploration data sets
- Finding evidence of geological processes in geochemical assay data
- Identifying geological domains and outliers via the integrated interpretation of geophysical data
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| | Mr Stephen J Fraser, Principal Research Geologist, Mining Geoscience, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
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15.00 | Afternoon refreshments
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| TECHNIQUES AND EXPERIENCES |
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15.30 | USER GENERATED PANEL DISCUSSION
Allow us to customize your learning experience! A brand new feature this year to involve YOU in the content creation of this conference.
We will be bringing all speakers together for an open forum discussion at the end of all presentations and you will have the chance to shape the discussion topics through this fun and interactive exercise.
All participants will have the chance to pen down your challenges and problems experienced or faced and we will address them in here live! Engage yourself in this highly interactive open discussion and voice out your doubts, opinions or suggestions together with all summit speakers and delegates! What’s more you can also share your experiences, findings and techniques across the whole spectrum of mineral exploration & hear the same from others!
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| | Mr Steve Boda, Exploration and Resource Manager, Lixian Project, Dragon Mountain Gold Mr Ian Tyler, Manager, North Australian Craton Mapping , Geological Survey of Western Australia
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17.00 | Summary and close of conference
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19.00 | Asia Mining Congress Sustainability Awards gala dinner
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Pre-conference Masterclass A: Monday, 7 April 2008
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09.00 | Remote and Field Spectral Sensing
for the Resources Industry
“Empowering the Geoscientist with Mineralogy”
Led by Dr Tom Cudahy
OverviewThis workshop aims to provide:
• The theoretical basis for mineral spectroscopy;
• Mineral models for different geological environments;
• Remote and proximal sensing instrumentation and methods;
• Spectrally derived geoscience information products;
• Accessing spectral geoscience capabilities/products;
• Case histories applying mineral mapping technologies to exploration/mining challenges
Expectantly, workshop participants will be empowered with basic skills to be able select and use field and/or remote mineral mapping technologies for assisting their mineral exploration and/or resource evaluation requirements.
Highlights
- Alteration and Regolith Spectral-Mineral Models: Critical for
successful use of spectral technology
- Mineral spectroscopy theory: wavelength coverage, EMR-matter
interaction, vibrational spectroscopy; VNIR-SWIR-TIR mineralogy
and mineral groups; mineral disorder/abundance/chemistry;
spectral libraries
- Sensors: Spectral/radiometric/spatial resolution; field/lab and
remote systems; satellite v airborne; imaging vs. line profiling;
multispectral vs. hyperspectral; VNIR vs. SWIR vs. TIR
- Spectral Corelogging and Mine Imaging: Case Studies
- Spectral processing issues: instrument; atmosphere; scattering;
information extraction; solutions; products and software
- TSG Core demonstration Exercises: Identification of mineralogy
from spectral signatures
- ASTER issues/processing: data products; acquisition; X-talk;
solutions for pre-processing
- ASTER Geological Case Histories: Broken Hill, Woodie Woodie
- ASTER-hyperspectral VNIR-SWIR-TIR case histories: Yerington
skarn-epithermal-porphyry
- HyMap Seamless Mapping: Mt Isa & Kalgoorlie
- Hyperspectral VMS: Panorama
- Alteration Mapping in Vegetated Cover: Mt Lyell
- Alteration Mineral Maps: Kalgoorlie and Mt Isa
- Regolith Mineral Maps: Kalgoorlie
- Iron Ore Exploration and Mining: Pilbara
- Mine Environment: Monitoring case studies
- Web delivery: Core Logging and Next Generation Maps
About our Masterclass leaders Dr Tom Cudahy,
Geologist & Group Leader
for Minerals and Environmental Sensing,
CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Australia
Tom Cudahy is a geologist and leader of CSIRO’s Minerals and Environmental Sensing Group based at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Perth, Western Australia.
He has an undergraduate degree in structural geology from Macquarie University and a PhD from Curtin University with a thesis based on silicate and surface scattering mapping using an airborne multi-line CO2 laser. He has led numerous national and international collaborative research projects and been a member of various satellite science teams including ASTER and Hyperion. He has also worked with airborne SEBASS, HyMap, ARGUS and
Geoscan Mk II airborne image data and is currently focused on developing remote hyperspectral capabilities for delivering accurate mineral and environmental composition maps of Australia for the resources industry in collaboration with the government mapping agencies of Australia.
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Post-conference Masterclass B: Thursday, 10 April 2008
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09.00 | RESOURCE ESTIMATION
This masterclass is targeted at geologists and mining engineers actively
involved with, or about to become involved with, resource estimation and all parties working with either inputs to resource estimation or resource models for mine planning. It will give a clear understanding of geostatistics and how it is used in resource estimation. Each aspect of the resource estimation process is examined, using presentations, practical exercises, activities and case studies.
You will:
- Gain an outline of ore reserve estimation and modeling procedures
- Learn how to choose the best modeling system
- Acquire a thorough understanding of fundamentals and how to apply them on site
- Learn about the latest techniques
- Get practical experience with real-life case studies
The course reviews the various aspects of resource modeling including:
- Importance of geology and domaining
- Volume-variance effect
- Data validation and analysis
- Variography
- Different methods of estimation, including inverse distance and various applications of kriging
- Model validation & practical resource classification
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