WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING

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Camp Oven Exploration have partnered with IMDEX to present a two-day workshop on the basics of using ioGAS (Putra Sadikin) and then applying these newly learned skills to Exploration Geochemistry (Carl Brauhart). The second day of the workshop begins with a PowerPoint presentation that outlines ten skills that prove to be extremely useful in Exploration Geochemistry time and again. The presentation is followed by six modules that use real world data to illustrate:

• The power of X-Y graphs to help establish multielement relationships
• Probability plots as a data validation tool and a key to identifying separate populations
• Principal Component Analysis to further investigate these relationships
• K-means clustering and UMAP plots (Putra Sadikin)
• The concept of closure and its importance to correctly identifying mineralogical relationships
• Log additive indices to refine metal associations related to mineralisation
• Alteration geochemistry and the fundamental importance of tying geochemical relationships to mineralogy
• Immobile element geochemistry to track variations in the original bulk compostion of protoliths (a key to understanding alteration geochemistry) and also to identify different lineages of both igneous suites (melt source) and sedimentary sequences (provenance)

Carl developed an Exploration Geochemistry Workshop in late 2017 while working at CSA Global. It has been delivered to over 150 participants in Perth, Kalgoorlie and Townsville and as customised workshops to AngloGold, IGO, Gold Road, Impact Mining and Pan Aust. The Pan Aust workshop was delivered in Myanmar and focused on identifying porphyry copper anomalies in stream sediment samples after catchment analysis was conducted in Mapinfo.

You can enrol for the next IMDEX - Camp Oven Exploration ioGAS Workshop at:

 https://reflexnow.com/product/iogas/?#tab-activation

 Mentoring young geologists in the field, be it drill core or drill chip logging, off-road driving, remote area work, designing and implementing sampling programs, and most of all, geological mapping is absolutely critical to their development. Mentoring in our industry has bright spots but the general standard has slipped badly since the early 1990s when a plethora of large and medium sized companies took pride in developing geologists with good field skills. Camp Oven Exploration is more than happy to closely involve young geologists with whatever field task has been assigned. The work still gets done, albeit slightly slower, but the skills transferred empower the newly upskilled employee to do much more of the work themselves.