Dear all,
The Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2014 will be held in Newcastle, Australia, from the 7-10 July 2014. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session RE12 "Optical Sensing for Advanced Mineral Characterisation for Exploration and Mining", which will be run as part of the Resources Theme. Please see below this Email for details of this session.
Both oral and poster presentations are welcome and the deadline for abstracts is the 14.03.2014. Details about the abstract template and guidelines can be found on http://www.aesc2014.gsa.org.au/call-for-abstracts/.
Please note also that there will be a related session about the topic of hyperspectral sensing of drill cores, namely session RE16 "The 3rd National Virtual Core Library Symposium". Please contact Alan Mauger ([log in to unmask]) or Belinda Smith ([log in to unmask]) for more details.
We're looking forward to seeing you in Newcastle.
Your session convenors,
Carsten Laukamp & Martin Wells
Session Details:
Optical Sensing Technologies, such as infrared reflectance spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, are increasingly applied for routine advanced characterisation of mineral assemblages. A multitude of technologies, ranging from spaceborne sensors to drill core and microscope scanning devices allow a multiscale characterisation of mineral systems. Public pre-competitive mineralogical data, in form of continental-scale mineral maps to drill-core scanning data have become available to the Australian resources sector over the past years, empowering explorers with mineralogy. This session invites presentations that showcase the latest advances in remote and proximal optical sensing technologies and their applications for the resources sector, including data processing and mineralogical interpretation. Case studies of mineral systems, where optical sensing technologies are integrated with other geoscience data are welcome, as well as detailed optical analytical studies of ore and vector minerals.
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