Gold Short Course 2018 (Prof. David I. Groves)

  We would like to thank you all for participation at two-day Gold Short Course by Prof. David I. Groves and we are looking forward seeing you again! Please find our online gallery with photos from short course and post-course field trip.

     

 

Link for downloading the presentation slides here (repaired)


We would like to invite you to a two-day Gold Short Course by Prof. David I. Growes from the Centre for Exploration Targeting, UWA, Australia. The course will take place on the 19th-20th May 2018 in the building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6. The ice-breaker is planned for the evening of 18th May (Friday), start at 5 pm. Attendance on the short course is for free thanks to SGA Educational Fund, but the field trip is charged by 160 EUR for SGA members and 280 for non-members.

  For any question about the Gold Short Course please contact us on gold.course.prague@gmail.com. Registration form for Gold Short Course and information about our post-short course field trip please find in the links below.

Please send your registrations on the email above. (In case of not responding please try to contact us on our personal emails).

 

Schedule of Gold Short Course

Saturday

OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS

Before 9 am: morning coffee

9:00- 1st lecture: Introduction to orogenic gold

10:35- coffee break

10:55- 2nd lecture: The crustal continuum and genetic models for orogenic gold

12:30- lunch time

14:30- 3rd lecture: Critical factors controlling the formation of orogenic gold

16:05- coffee break

16:25- 4th lecture: Exploration targeting for orogenic gold

18:00- expected end of the Saturday program

 

Sunday

GOLD DEPOSITS ON CRATON MARGINS

Before 9 am: morning coffee

9:00- 5th lecture: Introduction to intrusion-related gold deposits (IRGDs)

10:35- coffee break

10:55- 6th lecture: Nature of hybrid magmas and genesis of IRGDs

12:30- lunch time

14:30- 7th lecture: Carlin-type gold deposits of Nevada and China

16:05- coffee break

16:25- 8th lecture: Iron-oxide copper-gold deposits: nature and genesis

18:00- expected end of the Sunday program

*Cancelling with refund is possible only until two weeks before each trip.
**Organizers reserve the right to cancel a field trip for lack of participants.
***Besides Icebreaker party and coffee breaks, food and drink is not provided by the organizers of the Shortcourse.

Guide: Transport, dining, etc.

Registration form for the Gold Short Course and field trip

Informations about our post-Short Course field trip


Articles about the issue to see beforehand- Gold Short Course files:

Groves-et-al.-GSF-2018
Groves2010EG IOCG PAPER
GSF Giant Gold Provinces
Muntean_et_al_Carlin_Genetic_Model-2011
Lithos Paper
Hronsky et al. Paper MIDE-S-11-00118[1]
GSF-D-17-00399. Jiaodong. pdf
GSF Kalgoorlie Vielreicher

Field trip to the central part of Krušné hory Mts. (Erzgebirge)

This two day field trip took place from 3th to 4th of June 2017 and was concipated to visit mainly Fe, Mn and fluorite deposits in the central part of Krušné hory Mts. (Erzgebirge) with some additional stops on other deposits.

First day:

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We started the excursion in town Horní Blatná. Here we visited vein of Marie Terezie and heap of Concordia adit . Minerals occurring there were mostly Mn ore – pyroluzite. We found also quartz in small crystals up to 3 mm. Then we moved to „Ametystová Halže“ near Horní Halže village. This site is old mining part of Měděnec district and there is a large number of surface exposure of old mining activity. We found mostly amethyst and quartz crystals, ordinarily in clusters up to 7 cm and the primary Fe ores like limonite and pyrite.

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After first part of the excursion we moved to rock formation called „Sphings“ near town Měděnec formed by very high pressure deformed „eyes-schist“ from Variscian orogeny processes.

DSCN4446From this place we could see landscape of Doupovské hory volcanic centre. Our another stop was at Mědník hill near town Měděnec. This small hill is the skarn body preparated by erosion in Quaternary and one of the most mined Fe and Cu deposit in early modern age. We ascended to the top of the hill around old skarn heaps and there was lecture about local mining from medieval to the end of 20th century.

Second day:

DSCN4502The weather condition did not allow us to see all three fluorite deposits in Krušné hory Mts. according to former plan, but only Hradiště fluorite deposit near Kadaň town and Kláštěrec nad Ohří town. This small deposit was mined for barite, fluorite and hematite. We found only fluorite and hematite samples. After that we moved to The Chateau at Klášterec nad Ohří town, where was also an exhibition of local minerals. We saw very nice samples of polished agates from Horní Halže village, Černý Potok vil., Ciboušov vil. and other sites.

 

After that we visited local spa area and we drank local hydrothermal water from the spring. P1270149This hydrothermal energy is caused by volcanic activity bound on Ohře rift and was formed mostly in Tertiary. Then we moved to quick visit of Ahníkov (former vil.) – site with minerals of weathering of laterites. We found specific minerals like white and purple chalcedone, green chryzotile and small crystals of quartz. After that we moved to our last site which was Lehnschafter adit in Mikulov town. Mikulov was mined mostly for Ag ores like Ag-rich galenite.

 

Eight Chapter members paticipated on this excurstion led by Bc. Jakub Mysliveček.

For more photos please visit this link.

Field trip to the historical mining in Kutná hora and its surroundings

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First day:

Visiting of adit St. Jiří in Oselské district – Medieval adit St. Jiří is a part of the mining-historical exhibition of the Czech Museum of Silver. This adit was discovered in 1967 during a hydrogeological survey and the length of its accessible part is about 280 metres.
Quarry Práchovna – A new outdoor geological exposition was opened in August 2014 in the former quarry Práchovna. In this exposition are used a blocks of rocks from Kutná Hora area, Kolín and Chrudim with thematically structured panels.

P1260547The slag heaps – were deposited in the immediate vicinity of the silver smelter. The ironworks in the Vrchlice Valley were in operation from the 15th century until the end of the 18th century. This despite of the partialy flattened heaps, containing an estimated 400,000 tons of slag, are witnesses of the vast range of medieval metallurgical activity in the area.
The St. Antonín Paduánský – is one of the most important mineralogical sites of the Kutná Hora region. The work followed a vein with a high content of antimony and silver ores. In the adit and in the dump we can get to know not only with typical veined minerals, but also with some luck we find rare silver ores. Our findings: berthierite, kutnohorite, pyrite, cave pearls.
The site of the former RD Kutná Hora establishment – here is the Turkaňk mine, which draws the mined water treated in the built-up cleaner for user quality. A large basin in the southern part of the Turkaňk zone was created by the mines collapse in 1969. In the eastern wall of the basin is a gallery of an old mine about 100 m long. This old gallery belongs to the oldest phase of Kutná Hora mining.

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Old heaps after mining of ores in the village of Kaňk – This dumps are an interesting occurrence of rare arsenic minerals. For the last two years, heaps have been involved in many pitfalls because they have been exposed to erosion or by targeting of the collectors. Hopefully, due to the timely intervention of the experts which was made, there will be no complete disposal of the heaps, as was previously thought. Our Findings: bukovskite, kaňkite.

Second day:

P1260684Malešov – a magnetite rich rock deposit opened by deep mines. Our findings: magnetite, garnet, pyroxene, amphibole, prehnite, calcite, epidote.
Markovice – active amphibolite quarry near Čáslav. Known occurrences of alpine type minerals. Our Findings: prehnite, titanite, albite, calcite.
Kožlí near Ledeč nad Sázavou – a small fluorite deposit with a high content of quartz. Our findings: fluorite, quartz.

Fourteen Chapter members participated on this excursion led by Mgr. Jan Bubal.
For more photos please visit this link.

The International Raw Materials Career Days in Krakow

EIT RawMaterials, with the AGH University of Science & Technology in Krakow, and their affiliate IATI (the Institute Freeway of Technology and Innovation) would like to warmly invite you to attend the International Raw Materials Career Days in Krakow, Poland on May 21-24, 2017, for which admission is free.

The main event of the International Raw Materials Career Days will be the Raw Materials Careers Fair on Tuesday May 23, which will have as exhibitors leading European companies of the raw materials sector, spanning the full value chain of raw materials, including Boliden, DMT, BASF, KGHM, Mine Master, ZGH Boleslaw, and several others. The event will be attended by graduate students and alumni from over 15 world-class technical universities with strengths in the raw materials sector, from Poland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Sweden, and Finland, and will be open to the public and independent professionals.

Venue: foyer of A-0 building of the AGH University of Science & Technology in Krakow, located at Aleja Adama Mickiewicza 30, in the city center.

Time: May 23, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday 21 May (12:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm, A-0 building of AGH University) – Short Course in Geochemical Exploration offered by Dr. Denis Schlatter, EurGeol, PhD, CEO of Helvetica Exploration Services from Switzerland (open to students only, full details to be circulated shortly).

Monday 22 May (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) – Continuation of the short course.

Tuesday 23 May (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) – Raw Materials Careers Fair.

Tuesday 23 May (11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., A-0 building of AGH University) – Conference: ‘Raw Materials in the Polish Economy’ with presentations by the Chief Geologist of the Country, Secretary of State, Prof. Mariusz Orion-Jędrysek, as well as other senior government speakers and the managers of leading Polish raw material sector companies, including KGHM, ZGH Boleslaw, PGNiG, PGE, followed by a panel discussion (full details to be circulated shortly).

Tuesday 23 May (11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., A-0 building of AGH University) – PCRec project meeting, dealing with the exchange of information on new technologies for recovering raw materials from waste, mainly WEEE.

Wednesday 24 May (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Room 213, A-0 building of AGH University) – 3rd edition of the Conference „Young Researchers’ Innovative Ideas: Science-Start-up-Industry” consisting of PhD students and young researchers presenting to the industry various innovative solutions of their authorship (social, organizational, product marketing, and process-related).

Wednesday 24 May and Thursday 25 May (full day) – visits to KGHM’s kupferschiefer copper-silver and to the Wieliczka salt mines (a UNESCO world heritage site), organized by the Baltic Student Chapter of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral deposits (SGA), who will also be holding their Annual Meeting.

Contact: Dr. Mike Mlynarczyk: michal.mlynarczyk@eitrawmaterials.eu ; Mob (+48) 697 713 617

 

Announcement of field trip: Ore and fluorite deposits of the Krušné hory / Erzgebirge Mts.

Date: May – June 2017
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Program: Two-day field trip will be mainly devoted to Fe ores and fluorite deposits in the central part of the Krušné hory / Erzgebirge Mts.
Contact person: Jakub Mysliveček (mysli.warp@seznam.cz

Schedule:

  1. day: visiting of Fe-ore deposits Horní Blatná (heap Concordia), Mýtinka (skarn outcrop, heap), Horní Halže (old surface mining zone), Mědenec (Mědník hill), Přísečnice / Černý Potok (old surface mining zone) and Kovářská fluorite deposit.
  2. day: visiting of fluorite deposits Hradiště (heap), Blahuňov (heap), Moldava (heap, fluorite vein outcrop), Vrchoslav (fluorite vein outcrop).

Announcement of field trip: Mineralogical sites of Kutná Hora and its surroundings

Date: 29.4. – 30.4. 2017
Number of participants: 15-20
Program: Two-day field trip after mining and mineralogical interesting places around Kutná Hora
Contact person: Mgr. Jan Bubal (bubal.honza@gmail.com)

Schedule:

  1. day: visiting of museum adit Sv. Jiří in Kutná Hora, St. Barbora temple, Vrchlice valley (slag heap after ore mining, adit and heap of St. Antonín Paduánský, a quarry Vrbový mlýn), Kaňk near Kutná Hora (areal of formal mine Turkaňk, heap).
  2. day: visiting of quarries near Kutná Hora and Čáslav (Markovice/Libodřice, Vlastějovice, Bohdaleč), minerals sites Borek, Kožlí, Přibyslavice.

Lecture: Volcanic-epithermal submarine high-sulfidation contexts and VMS magmatic-hydrothermal systems

SGA Student Chapter Prague invites for a lecture by Prof. Jorge Relvas (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) about Volcanic-epithermal submarine high-sulfidation contexts and VMS magmatic-hydrothermal systems.

The SGA Keynote Speaker Program

Date: April 25, 2017
Time: 14:50
Venue: Faculty of Science, Charles University, Ložiskové sbírky room, First floor, Albertov 6, Prague 2
Contact: jan.kulhanek@natur.cuni.cz (Chapter president)

Flyers:

                  in Czech ↓                                        in English ↓

Relvas-prednaska Relvas-lecture

Invitation: 1-day excursion after heritage stones of significant buildings and artworks of Prague

Where: most of the time in the centre of Prague
When: 31st March 2017

The excursion will be focused on the use of heritage stones that come from different parts of the country. Will be visited for example Romanesque church of Sts. Cross, Žofín, National Theatre, statue of František Palacký and many other sights. Expert commentary will lead Dr. Barbora Dudíková Schulmannová from the Czech Geological Survey.

Meeting will be in the morning (time to be announced) in front of seat of the Czech Geological Survey. To participate on the excursion is necessary to log on by email on email address michalcurda@centrum.cz to 26th March 2017. For more information contact directly Michal Čurda on previous email address please.

In following on this one-day event is planned two-day field trip which will lead to the quarries where these important heritage stones were and are mined and processed (eg. Ruprechtice, Lázně Bělohrad – quarry Javorka, Lipnice, Bernartice and others). This trip is planned to the end of June.