The Geological Society of Zimbabwe holds an annual symposium towards the end of each year where presenters, from amongst the membership, and invited guests, talk on a wide variety of topics of interest to the geological community.

 

This year, the Symposium will be held at the Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe on the 1st December 2017.

 

Registration (incl teas and lunch) $20 for members (non-members should join)                        

 

Contact:-  geol.soc.zimbabwe@gmail.com 

 

Below is the provisional line-up

  

Southern Africa under cover – an integrated geophysical and geological interpretation - Branko Corner    

 

Durchbewegung textures, subterranean sedimentation and the link to mineralisation in the Lufilian Copperbelt -Tony Martin

  

Mantle Plumes: Fable, Fiction or Fact - Andy Moore  

 

Transtensional tectonics for the 2575Ma Great Dyke and diachronous Chilimanzi suite plutonism: the end of Macgregor's  vertical tectonics - Mark Tsomondo   

 

The Xade Complex and its place in the Umkondo igneous event - Peter Hildebrand   

 

 From Archosaurs to Dinosaurs - the 2017 Expeditions - Tim Broderick   

 

Arcadia Lithium Project - Roger Tyler   

 

Dune Mining at Richards Bay - Ellah Muchemwa   

 

Gold Processing at Cam and Motor Mine - Jonathan  Nyagumbo  

 

Challenges Facing Chrome Small Scale Miners - Nevison Chikandiwa 

 

Oil Exploration in Zambezi Valley - Brent Barber   

 

Airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry versus Ground Gravity in the search for mineral deposits - Tenyears Gumede

 

Update on Zimbabwe's new Mining Cadastre System - Bill Feast

 

Transparency in the Mining Industry -  Mary-Jane Ncube   

 

GSSA :- Registration and Ethics - Gordon Chunnett   

 

MSU Faculty of Mining & Mineral Processing Engineering - Anthony Mamuse