TARGET 2023
Targeting for a New Era of Discovery
The Target 2023 Organising Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming Target 2023 conference, Targeting for a New Era of Discovery. The Target 2023 conference will be held at the Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Perth, Australia on 28 July 2023 following the 6ias.
After the great success of Target 2017, Geoconferences is organising Target 2023 to showcase innovations developed to aid the discovery of new tier-one deposits and broaden the exploration search space under cover. Target 2023 will focus on all aspects of mineral exploration and provide a unique opportunity to workshop solutions to the mineral industry challenges that lie ahead.
We expect more than 250 attendees from both the Australian and international mineral exploration community, including executives, exploration professionals, researchers and university students. The technical program will consist of a plenary format and multiple poster sessions, impacting multi-commodity exploration from the regional greenfield scale through to camp scale.
Download the Target 2023 Abstract Volume here.
The program will highlight:
(i) Key research outcomes that impact our understanding of Mineral Systems and the derived exploration strategies
(ii) Data integration, interpretation and key exploration targeting inputs
(iii) Improved targeting strategies and methodologies
The Target 2023 Organising Committee is pleased to announce our curated program for the theme “Targeting a New Era of Discovery.”
| Topic/Title | Type | Description | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.30 | Registration | |||
| 8.50 | Opening address and acknowledgement of country | |||
| 9.00 | Putting time and dynamics into improved Mineral Systems prediction | Keynote 1 | Review of initiatives and developments adding sophistication to Mineral Systems understanding | Nicole Januszczak |
| 9.40 | Large-scale crustal architecture: A first-order control on multiple mineral systems | Talk 1 | Regional isotopic mapping, linking crustal-scale architecture and world-class ore-province formation, offers the potential to reduce search space by 90%. | David Mole |
| 10.00 | Redefining an Archean boundary | Talk 2 | Moving terrane boundaries | Raphael Quentin-de Gromard |
| 10.20 | Spatial periodicity in self-organized mineral systems | Talk 3 | How some of the world richest mineral provinces show surprisingly predictable ore clustering patterns, with emphasis on Au and base-metals. | Nick Hayward |
| 10.40 | Morning tea | |||
| 11.10 | Drilling with a dynamic targeting feedback loop | Talk 4 | Currently geoscientists choose between making real time decisions using visual observations or waiting weeks or months for laboratory data to enable more informed choice. How can we use technology to change these workflows? | Michelle Carey |
| 11.30 | A paradigm shift: How continuous, solid-3D digital core is future-proofing the way we explore, mine and process deposits – Critical Mineral and Gold Deposit Case Studies | Talk 5 | Heidi Pass | |
| 11.50 | Geologically-appropriate feature engineering for mineral exploration | Talk 6 | Identification and validation of mineralization targets using multi-disciplinary geoscientific data | Rebecca Montsion |
| 12.10 | How to use a decision-making process to target geochemical anomalies based on frequency and Bayesian frameworks | Talk 7 | Decision-making under uncertainty for geochemical sampling and mineral potential targeting | Behnam Sadeghi |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |||
| 13.50 | Exploration models for lithium pegmatites | Keynote 2 | Synthesis plus connections to structure, evolution, key problems for exploration | Kathryn Goodenough |
| 14.30 | Recent advances in the understanding of magmatic nickel sulfide systems and newly developed exploration tools | Talk 8 | Working across the scales relevant to targeting and exploration for nickel sulphides | Margaux Le Vaillant |
| 14.50 | Barcoding the geochemistry of Archean basalts | Talk 9 | Hugh Smithies | |
| 15.10 | The Julimar Intrusive Complex and Associated Orthomagmatic Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits | Talk 10 | What worked to discover a giant deposit in the unloved western Yilgarn 70km from Perth! | Kevin Frost, Bruce Kendall |
| 15.30 | Afternoon Tea and Poster Session: Poster Session 3 | |||
| 16.00 | Revealing Australia’s lithospheric architecture for exploration targeting: Advances from the $225 M Exploring for the Future program (2016 – 2024) |
Talk 11 | Mineral Systems and lithospheric architecture from surface to mantle. Advances by the Australian Government’s $225 M Exploring for the Future program (2016-2024). | Karol Czarnota |
| 16.20 | How magnetotelluric data from multiscale surveys can help to image the footprint of mineral systems in covered terrane | Talk 12 | Multi-scale application of magnetotellurics to minerals targeting | Wenping Jiang |
| 16.40 | The use of zircon and apatite as metallogenic fertility indicators in Archean orogenic gold systems | Talk 13 | We explore the applicability of accessory minerals as pathfinders in Archean-age gold systems using examples from the Yilgarn Craton | Chris Fisher |
| 17.00 | New horizons in predictive science | Talk 14 | new scientific knowledge necessary for a step change in the predictive power of exploration already exists, but is simply not implemented | Marco Fiorentini |
| 17.20 | Close | Graham Begg, Cam McCuaig | ||
| 17.30 | Drinks | |||
We look forward to welcoming you to Target 2023 and together shaping tomorrow’s exploration strategies for the future sustainability of our industry.
Abstract Submission
The Target 2023 Organising Committee welcomes authors to submit abstracts for Poster Presentations only. Poster sessions will be held throughout the day.
Registration
Registration is now open through the 6ias website