AXG - Antipodes Gold [formerly GEL - Glass Earth]

[elZorro]

The AusIMM conference is on in Rotorua this month, the main part of it being from 27-29th August, in Rotorua. Here's the programme.

There are some industry heavyweights speaking at the morning sessions, including Mick Wilkes (OGC), Glen Grindlay (Newmont Waihi), Chris Baker (Straterra) Geoff Loudon (L&M Energy, L&M Mining). The chairman of the organising committee is Tony Christie (not the singer, the scientist from GNS). Dr Christie was the lead author in papers on the WKP area and the Coromandel.

Simon Henderson has a 20-minute slot on the first afternoon, where attendees have a choice of two sessions. He has chosen to discuss the Garibaldi discovery process, which could be a heads-up for that hard-rock area. On another day an Otago University student, James Stewart (who may or may not be of Scottish descent..) will discuss the morphology differences in placer gold between Nevis and Garibaldi.

That's something else GEL is good at, providing placements for geology students by the look of it. There will be another session by GNS covering new geothermal discovery work near Taupo. So plenty of links here to GEL, including some time spent on the blind Correnso deposit in Waihi, which may trend towards a GEL JV permit with Newmont.

Something for JB: a trailer mounted trommel system?