Heavy mineral concentration and analytical techniques in mineral exploration – from research to business
14 December 2021 at 12:00 - 18:00
Master and Ph.D. students, as well as professionals, are invited to participate in the workshop on “Heavy mineral concentration and analytical techniques in mineral exploration – from research to business”. The online event will be on 14 December 2021 at 12.00-18.10 (Finnish time EET) via zoom video connection. The Workshop is organized by the MinExTarget project.
PROGRAMME
Finnish time EET
12.00-12.10 Opening
Pertti Sarala, GTK (Geological Survey of Finland)/OMS(Oulu Mining School) and Juha Kaija, GTK
12.10-12.35 CRS Laboratory’s services
Ville Anttila, CRS Laboratory
12.35-13.00 Palsatech – New Way of Mineral Exploration
Hannu Ahola, Palsatech
13.00-13.20 MinExTarget Company
Petri Ahokangas, OBS (Oulu Business School)
13.20-13.30 Break
13.30-13.50 The dynamics of business models in the mineral exploration sector
Nina Jorien van Vulpen, PhD, OBS
13.50-14.10 Rajapalot Au-Co deposit as an example of atypical orogenic gold
Jukka-Pekka Ranta, Postdoc, OMS
14.10-14.30 Trace element and isotope analyses of sulphide minerals in mineral deposit fingerprinting: A case study from Petäjäselkä Au occurrence, northern Finland
Atte Taivalkoski, PhD, OMS
14.30-14.50 Coffee break
14.50-15.10 Scheelite trace elements and source rock characterization: A test at the Rompas-Rajapalot prospect, northern Finland
Krisztian Szentpeteri, Research Scientist, GTK
15.10-15.30 The age of monazite grains in till as an indicator of potentially mineralized bedrock: A test at the Rompas-Rajapalot prospect, northern Finland
Paavo Nikkola, Research Scientist, GTK
15.30-15.50 A combined SEM AQM and LA-ICPMS approach for textural, trace element, and U-Pb dating fingerprinting of target minerals in Greenland
Tonny Thomsen & Nynke Keulen, GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) 15.50-16.10 Cobalt mineralization in the Stara Kamienica Range, SW Poland
Paulina Skirak, MSc, AGH University of Science of Technology
16.10-16.20 Break
16.20-16.40 Mineralogical study of the heavy mineral concentrate from the Karkonosze-Izera Massif
Krzysztof Foltyn, AGH
16.40-17.00 New data on polymetallic mineralization in the Gierczyn-Przecznica area, mineralogy, trace elements and geochronology SW Poland
Władysław Zygo, AGH
17.00-17.20 Fingerprinting elements in exploration for copper deposits in Palaeoproterozoic terrains, a case study of the Nussir copper deposit, Repparfjord Tectonic Window, Northern Norway
Yulia Munn, Postdoc, UiT (The Arctic University of Norway)
17.20-17.40 Geochemical characteristics of sediment- and mafic rock-hosted Cu deposits in the Kåfjord area, Alta-Kvænangen Tectonic Window, Northern Norway
Sondre Simonsen, MSc, UiT
17.40-18.00 The geochemical signature of Cu mineralisation preserved in stream sediments from the Alta-Kvænangen Tectonic Window, Northern Norway
Johan Hilmo, MSc UiT
18.00-18.10 Closing
Hugh O’Brien, GTK
Registration
Registration here. Registration within 13 December 2021. Please add on the registration your active email address where the Zoom link for the lectures will be sent a day before the workshop.
Price: Participation in the workshop is free.