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Talk - 'Overview Petroleum Exploration - A Zimbabwe Perspective' - Brent Barber

Brent Barber delivered a talk titled 'Overview Petroleum Exploration - A Zimbabwe Perspective' to 20 members of the Society at 530pm on Friday 13th December in the Kramers room, Geology Depatment - UZ.

Please see the presentation attached below:-

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 16/12/2019 - 08:15

Field Trip - Shamva - Tony Martin

On 30 November 2019 Tony Martin led a trip to the Shanva Areas.The field trip covered outcrops of porphyritic granite, the Umwindsi Shear Zone and parts of the Shamvaian Group within the Shamva Greenstone Belt.

30 members participated.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 02/12/2019 - 09:31

Summer Symposium 2019

The Summer Symposium was held at the Geology Department UZ on 29th November 2019 and attended by 75 members

Welcome - Nevison Chikandiwa- Geological Society Chair

Official Opening - Forbes Mugumbate - Director of the Geological Survey

Summary Of The Petroleum Exploration Completed In The Mzarabani Project By Invictus Energy - Brent Barber

Sijarira surprise!

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 02/12/2019 - 09:28

Zimbabwe Mineral resource Conference 2020

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Thu, 21/11/2019 - 14:45

Talk - 'The Black Gold of Hwange' - Trish Nyirenda

On 25th October 2019 Trish Nyirenda gave a talk to the Society in Bulawayo on 'The Black Gold of Hwange'

The talk was presented at the Zimbabwe School of Mines

See presentation attached.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Thu, 31/10/2019 - 15:23

Trip - Arcadia Lithium Project

On 7th June 2019 Prospect Resources hosted 25 members of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe at their Arcadia Lithium Project.

Arcadia lies 38km east of Harare in the Harare Greenstone Belt

Roger Tyler and Adam Moodley, our hosts explained how drilling of 12 000m of diamond core and more than 15 000m of reverse circulation has revealed multiple stacked, flat-lying pegmatites with little surface outcrop.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Tue, 11/06/2019 - 08:11

Field Trip - Shamva - Macgregor Memorial 2019 - Hielke Jelsma

On Saturday 18th May Hielke Jelsma led a field trip to the Shamva Greenstone Belt.

The trip was attended by 30 members and covered the following areas/

‐ Explored the extraordinary geology of the Shamva greenstone belt with classic outcrop localities along the Mazowe River.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Fri, 07/06/2019 - 14:39

Talk - Invictus Energy Project Update

On 20th March 2019, John Clark and Scott Macmillan updated 30 members of the Society on the Invictus Energy Project and in particular: -

"The Re-interpretation of the Mobil legacy Geophysical Data".

Getech and Invictus have agreed to donate all of the reprocessed gravity and magnetic data to the Zimbabwe Geological Survey so that it may be used by the public.

A copies of the presentations can be found below:-

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 27/05/2019 - 08:18

Macgregor Memorial Lecture 2019 - Hielke Jelsma

On Friday 17th May 2019, Hielke Jelsma delivered the 2019 Macgregor Memoral Lecture to 60 people including members of the Society and the public. The event was held in the Geology Department lecture hall at the University of Zimbabwe.

A.M.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 20/05/2019 - 10:12

Talk - Exploration of blind copper ore bodies - Discovery, evaluation and resource estimation- A case Study from South of Angola - Godfrey Gundani

On Friday 3rd May 2019, Godfrey Gundani, Project Manager for SMCA - SOCIEDADE MINEIRA DE COBRE DE ANGOLA, talked to the Society about the exploration project he as been working on in the Mavoio and Tetelo-Bembe Concession along Angola's Western Copper Belt.

The talk was attended by 30 members and students.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 06/05/2019 - 09:01

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