Program: Part 1 Webinar

 

Day 1: 12 October (Time UTC: 7:00 – 10:00)
Time (UTC)	Non-Scientific Talks	Title of the Talk
7:00 – 7:10	Dr Bijal Chudasama, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)	Welcome
7:10 – 7:20	Dr Saku Vuori, Director of Science and Innovations, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)	GTK – Foreword
7:20 – 7:30	Dr Steffen Hagemann, Prof. Economic Geology and Director School of Earth Sciences-Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET), University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	CET, UWA – Foreword
7:30 – 7:40	Dr Alok Porwal, Professor and Head, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India	CSRE, IITB – Foreword
	Invited Scientific Talks	Title of the Talk
7:40 – 8:00	Keynote: Dr Gregor Partington, Managing Director, Kenex, Australia	Outcomes from Using Mineral Potential Modelling as a Tool to Support Decision Making in Mineral Exploration and Resource Development
8:05 – 8:15	Break
8:15 – 8:25	Dr Mark Jessell, Professor, Centre for Exploration Targeting-School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia	Analysing Mineral Systems Using Geo-constrained Non-Euclidean Distances
8:30 – 8:40	Dr Alok Porwal, Professor and Head, CSRE, IITB, India	Machine Learning in Prospectivity Modelling: Feature Engineering, Selection and Integration
8:45 – 8:55	Dr Andreas Brosig, Geologist, Beak Consultants GmbH, Germany	Hybrid Mineral Predictive Mapping with Self-organizing Maps and a Multilayer Perceptron
9:00 – 9:10	Break
9:10 – 9:25	Lightning Talks
	Dr Arianne Ford, Senior GIS Analyst, Kenex Ltd., New Zealand	Big (Targeting Criteria) Data – Little (Training) Data
	Dr Behnam Sadeghi, Adjunct Research Fellow, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia	Application of C-C Fractal Modelling to Separate Anthropogenic from Geogenic Patterns
9:25 – 9:55	Interactive Session and General Discussions
9:55 – 10:00	Session Chair	Closing Day 1

Day 2: 13 October (Time UTC: 7:00 – 10:15)
Time (UTC)	Invited Scientific Talks	Title of the Talk
7:05 – 7:25	Keynote: Dr Jon Hronsky, Principal, Western Mining Services (WMS), Australia	Mineral Exploration Targeting and Prospectivity Analysis – A Practitioner’s Perspective
7:30 – 7:40	Dr Vladimir Lisitsin, Manager, Mineral Systems, Mineral Geosciences, Geological Survey of Queensland, Australia	Prospectivity Modelling to Practical Exploration Targeting – Bridging the Gap?
7:45 – 7:55	Dr Johanna Torppa, Senior Scientist, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)	GisSOM and Its Application to Geoscientific Data
8:00 – 8:10	Break
8:10 – 8:20	Dr Wolfgang Maier, Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, UK	Introduction to the Layered Intrusion Database, and Implications for Exploration Targeting
8:25 – 8:35	Dr Nick Cook, Chief Geologist, Mawson Gold, Australia	Challenges in Poly-deformed Paleoproterozoic Mineral Systems – an Example from Finnish Lapland
8:40 – 8:50	Mr Stephen Busuttil, Principal Research Geoscientist, BHP, Australia	Mapping Porphyry Mineral System Elements at Terrane Scale
8:55 – 9:05	Mr Michael Rodda, Founder, Caldera Analytics Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia	IOCG Prospectivity Modelling for the Gawler Craton – ExploreSA Competition
9:10 – 9:20	Break
9:20 – 9:35	Lightning Talks
	Mr Malcolm Aranha, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India	Regional-scale Exploration Targeting of Carbonatite-alkaline-complex-related REE Deposits in Northwestern India
	Dr Ehsan Farahbakhsh, Research Associate, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran	Three-dimensional Weights of Evidence Modeling of Concealed Ore Deposits Using 3DWofE Software Package
9:35 – 10:05	Interactive Session and General Discussions
10:05 – 10:15	Dr Bijal Chudasama, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)	Closing remarks