ORE SOLUTIONS NEWSLETTER OF CODES CENTRE FOR ORE DEPOSIT AND EARTH SCIENCES > Summer 2019 No.35 30 YEARS OF HUGE ACHIEVEMENTS As we near the end of 2019, CODES Director Professor David Cooke looks back on what has been another solid and busy year for the Centre, and reflects on its 30 years at the forefront of ore deposit research. CODES is currently celebrating 30 years of operation and I am sure our founding director, Emeritus Professor Ross Large, is as delighted as I am that the Centre continues to maintain its hard-earned status as a global leader in ore deposit research and training. CODES began operations in 1989 when Ross and his team won an Australian Research Council Key Centre grant, providing The three trainers: the 30th anniversary of the CODES Masters program was celebrated in the foundation for the establishment mid-November. Here Masters coordinator Dr Rob Scott, CODES founder Emeritus Professor of our flagship Master of Economic Ross Large and former Masters coordinator Dr Tony Webster synchronise the cutting of three Geology degree. Since its inception, cakes to mark the occasion. Around 60 people including Masters students and CODES staff, the Masters program has been based students and invited guests attended. on intensive two-week short courses Tunks, Tony Webster and most recently architecture of the Cowal district in that are offered over a two-year cycle. Rob Scott, the Masters program has NSW with support from Evolution Our students currently have the option now completed three decades of Mining; this project is being led of completing the Masters entirely by training and upskilling of industry by postdoctoral research fellow coursework (eight short courses) or geoscientists. Indeed, due to growing Francisco Testa and involves several completing a minor research thesis demand, this year for the first time graduate students. Shaun Barker and (six short courses plus a thesis). Under David Selley have been successful in the excellent stewardship of Masters CODES ran four Masters short courses securing funding for a new AMIRA coordinators Bruce Gemmell, Andrew instead of our usual three – with ‘Ores in Magmatic Arcs’ offered in pilot study in association with Murray Indonesia (March) and South America Hitzman (iCRAG) and Scott Halley IN THIS ISSUE (October). The final Masters course for (Mineral Mapping) – this project, which focuses on resistate minerals Honours: class of 2019 3 the year (Geometallurgy) wrapped up in November with a celebration of 30 in sediment-hosted mineral systems, Our own Young Tall Poppy 10 years of the Masters program. Looking will have its start-up meeting in December. Our Lachlan Orogen Where are they now? forward, we are intending to add more project, led by Sebastien Meffre, had Kim Denwer 12 Masters short courses to the program a successful sponsors’ meeting in SEG 2019 in Chile 16 in 2020 and 2021 due to increased September and will conclude early in student demand. Upcoming short courses 28 the new year, and has been successful During 2019 we initiated a major in achieving its aims with tie-in new project to investigate the 4D follow-up projects in the pipeline. CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B Code: Provider CRICOS CONTINUED ON P.2. CODES CONTACTS CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE CODES DIRECTOR AND ARC INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION RESEARCH HUB (TMVC) DIRECTOR David Cooke Ph: +61 3 6226 7605 [email protected] LEADERS, PROGRAM 1 Ore Deposits and Mineral Exploration Mike Baker and Lejun Zhang Ph: +61 3 6226 7210/7211 [email protected] [email protected] LEADERS, PROGRAM 2 Geometallurgy, Geoenvironment and Mining Angela Escolme and Julie Hunt Ph: +61 3 6226 2664/5705 Angela.Escolme@utas .edu.au [email protected] Oh, what a feeling!: participants in the ‘Ores in Magmatic Arcs – South America’ Masters LEADERS, PROGRAM 3 short course pictured in the Domeyko Cordillera of northern Chile, home to the giant Eocene- Oligocene porphyry copper deposits, and with the principal volcanic arc that forms the border Sedimentation, Tectonics and Earth Evolution of Chile and Bolivia in the background, jump for joy towards the end of an action-packed and Shaun Barker and Jeff Steadman highly successful two weeks in Peru and Chile. Ph: +61 3 6226 8337/5554 [email protected] The Australian Research Council appointed as a lecturer in geology [email protected] Industrial Transformation Research and geometallurgy. Clare Miller from LEADERS, PROGRAM 4 Hub (TMVC) has been extended from Queens University, Ontario, will be Magmatic and Volcanic Processes its original completion date of mid- joining us as a geoenvironmental Rebecca Carey and Dima Kamenetsky 2020 to mid-2021 due to the funding lecturer at the start of 2020. We Ph: +61 3 6226 2987/7649 extension provided by AMIRA project welcome both Angela and Clare to [email protected] P1202, which is approaching the half- the profile staff, and look forward to [email protected] way mark of its three-year program. their contributions to our research and teaching programs for years to come. In mid-November, the Australian LEADERS, PROGRAM 5 Research Council announced funding Our PhD program continues to attract Analytical Research success for our ARC Linkage project high-calibre geoscientists who play an Leonid Danyushevsky and Sebastien Meffre entitled ‘Exploration targeting from integral part in our industry-partnered Ph: +61 3 6226 2469/7207 next-generation volcanic facies research projects by helping to drive [email protected] reconstruction’. This project will run innovation in research. So far this year [email protected] .au from 2020–2022 and will involve eight students have submitted their LEADERS, PROGRAM 6 postdoctoral research fellow Martin PhD theses: Adam Abersteiner, Ayesha Geophysics and Computational Geosciences Jutzeler and several graduate students. Ahmed, David Doutch, Matt Ferguson, Michael Roach and Matt Cracknell The grant application was supported by Jodi Fox, Shawn Hood, Brian McNulty Ph: +61 3 6226 2474/2481 Evolution Mining, the Geological Survey and Naomi Potter. These students Michael.Roach@utas .edu.au of NSW, Department of State Growth are all looking forward to graduating [email protected] Tasmania and OceanaGold, and involves soon. By the end of the year five new collaborations with the University PhD students will have joined our PhD NEWSLETTER EDITOR of Auckland and the University of program – Xin Ni Seow, Alex Farrar, Caroline Mordaunt Strasbourg. A very big thank-you to Max Hohl, Hannah Moore and Takeshy [email protected] Martin Jutzeler, and the project’s Chief Coaquira, along with two MSc students: CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit Investigators and Partner Investigators: Nathaly Guerrero and Zeb Zivkovic. Rebecca Carey, Ray Cas, David Cooke, and Earth Sciences Around this time each year, our main Sebastien Meffre, Shaun Barker, Kate University of Tasmania cohort of Honours students submit Bull, Julie Rowland and Michael Heap Private Bag 79, Hobart their theses. The Honours program for all of their hard work in putting the Tasmania 7001 Australia remains an essential stepping-stone successful ARC bid together. Ph: +61 3 6226 2472 for our graduates who are seeking utas.edu.au/codes The University of Tasmania recently to pursue a career in industry; this [email protected] appointed two new profile staff newsletter celebrates the contributions members in CODES and Earth Sciences: of the 2019 cohort of CODES and Earth Dr Angela Escolme (currently a Sciences Honours students through a postdoctoral research fellow here in series of student profiles that highlight the TMVC Research Hub) has been their inventive research contributions. 2 ORE SOLUTIONS > SUMMER 2019 HONOURS CLASS OF 2019 SHINES This year’s Honours cohort project areas have covered a broad and fascinating range of topics. Again, there was a spread of research – across economic geology, geology of Tasmania, environmental geochemistry and volcanology. Most students found Honours hard work but definitely worth it: many of those who are on the cusp of graduating have found work they know will follow through on their research interests. Left: Future promise: Johanna van Balen takes a break from collecting core samples at Copper Mines of Tasmania’s Princess Creek Tailings Storage Facility as part of her Honours research into the mineralogy and geochemical properties of tailings. Right: Digging deep: Rob James’ Honours project has involved detailed characterisation of the textures, sequence and trace element composition of sulfides in the various ore types at the Lantern Gold Deposit, Northern Territory. Through our Honours program in Earth major in the Bachelor of Science. Two their graduation planned for August Sciences at the University of Tasmania students graduated in August this 2020. Our research projects are spread (UTAS), we aim to provide the best year, eight will graduate in December, around Australia and overseas, with strategies to prepare our students for and we have three mid-year starters two projects in Tasmania, seven on the careers in industry or academia. The who will graduate in August 2020. The mainland (in five different states!) and Honours degree in Earth Sciences student numbers for 2020 look very two in New Zealand. Details of these consists of thesis-based research good as well, demonstrating continued eleven projects are covered here. balanced with a literature review and interest from our graduate students four weeks of short units that take in obtaining additional qualifications SPONSORS place in Tasmania or at universities in before joining the workforce. Many of the student projects were Victoria. The Honours program has sponsored by industry and academia. two intakes a year (February and July) RESEARCH TOPICS We are most grateful to sponsoring and consists of around 38 weeks of Of the eight students who started companies and organisations, which study, with graduations in December Honours in February four carried out included the TMVC Research Hub, and August.