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S-1 Paleoproterozoic crustal reworking in the core of a transpressional orogen, southern Gawler Craton

NOTE: Unfortunately this field trip has been cancelled due to insufficient registrations to meet the minimum requirements

Other forthcoming South Australian tours will be available prior to the AusIMM International Uranium Conference in June 2012

 Pre-congress 4 day field trip 31 July–3 August 2012

Start: Commences on the morning of Tuesday 31 July from Whyalla, South Australia
Participants will need arrange their own transport to arrive in Whyalla either the night before the field trip (i.e Monday 30 July) or to arrive on the first morning flight from Adelaide on Tuesday 31 July (flight arrives in Whyalla at 7.40 am)

Finish: Friday 3 August in Port Lincoln, South Australia
Participants can make their own arrangements to fly back to Adelaide on an evening flight or the following morning

Number of participants: Maximum 16 participants, minimum of 10 participants - please make sure you book refundable travel and accomodation arrangements to South Australia until the minimum number of registrations is reached

Cost: A$950 (see booking form for payment details)

About the field trip: This 4 day field trip will investigate lithological, structural, metamophic and metallogenic features covering a c. 1600 million year history of the Gawler Craton across Eyre Peninsula. A significant amount of new geological, geochronoloical and geophysical work in this region has recently been conducted, including a 250 km long deep seismic survey, giving us a deeper understanding of the geology of this region.

The excursion will highlight:

  • the c. 3150 Ma gneissic basement to the Gawler Craton, the oldest exposed rocks in Australia outside Western Australia
  • spectacular coastal exposures of a classic transpressional orogen, the c. 1730–1700 Ma Kimban Orogen, which dominates the structural and metamorphic architecture of the region.

Field trip leaders:
Professor Martin Hand, University of Adelaide

Anthony Reid, Geological Survey of South Australia
Email: anthony.reid@sa.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8201 3039

S-2 Arkaroola - Flinders Ranges - Astrobiology and planetary geology

See the 34th IGC website for more information and booking details

S-3 Uranium geology of South Australia

NOTE: Unfortunately this field trip has been cancelled due to insufficient registrations to meet the minimum requirements

Other forthcoming South Australian tours will be available prior to the AusIMM International Uranium Conference in June 2012

Post-congress 3 day field trip 13 August–15 August 2012

Start: Commences at 10.00 am Monday 13 August at Adelaide Airport General Aviation Terminal - Air South

Finish: Finishes at 17.00 pm Wednesday 15 August at Adelaide Airport General Aviation Terminal - Air South 

Number of participants: Maximum 14 participants, minimum of 10 participants - please make sure you book refundable travel and accomodation arrangements to South Australia until the minimum number of registrations is reached

Cost: A$1000 (see booking form for payment details)

About the field trip: Travel by private charter flight to visit remote sites including a surface tour and core inspection at Olympic Dam, the world's most valuable ore body, the Beverley uranium mine and scenic Mt Painter. The trip will be a transect through the ages or a uranium-rich mineral system originating in the earliest Mesoproterozoic of South Australia and will examine various uranium-mineralised areas in the context of relationships between each type. Participants will see breccia-related, iron oxide-copper-gold-uranium and sediment hosted uranium systems in a sequence from older to younger to illustrate the uranium cycle. The importance of structural controls, even on younger systems, will be demonstrated.

Field trip leaders:
Martin Fairclough, Tania Wilson and Steve Hore, Geological Survey of South Australia

S-4 Ediacaran-Cambrian of South Australia

See the 34th IGC website for more information and booking details