Registration (incl teas and lunch) Z$300 for members (non-members should join)                    

 

07:45 Registration

08:00 Welcome - Nevison Chikandiwa-  Geological Society Chair

08:20 Official Opening - Forbes Mugumbate -  Director of the Geological Survey

08:40 Summary Of The Petroleum Exploration Completed In The Mzarabani Project By Invictus Energy - Brent Barber

09:00 Tea

09:20 Sijarira surprise! Preliminary age data on detrital zircons from the Sijarira Group, western Zimbabwe, reveals an unexpected Antarctica connection - Sharad Master

10:15 Superplume versus far-field stress as geodynamic controls on Witwatersrand sedimentation and Ventersdorp LIP magmatism: new insights from south-retreating and north-advancing orogens of 3.1-2.5Ga Kalahari Supercontinent  - Mark Tsomondo

11:00 The Great Dyke of Great Treasures and Great Mysteries - Forbes Mugumbate

11:20 A new Late Triassic fossil vertebrate assemblage from Zimbabwe - Key to the understanding of the origin of Dinosaurs - Chris Griffin as read by Tim Broderick

11:50 The Geology and Historical Importance of the Abanab Vanadium Mine in the Otavi MountainLand (Namibia) - Mark Watts

12:10 Some Observations on Pegmatites - Tony Martin

12:40 Structural Footprint of Gold Mineralisation in Zimbabwe Greenstone Belts; A case study of Pickstone Peerless Deposit - George Rusike

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Tantalite Production in Post Colonial Zimbabwe, 1980 – 2018: Challenges and Prospects - Tafadzwa Gwini

14:20 The Geo-Metallurgy of the Arcadia Pegmatite Swarm - Adam Moodley

14:40 An Interpretation Of Magnetic, Gravity And Magnetotelluric Measurements Over The Magondi Circular Magnetic Anomaly Of Zimbabwe - Tenyears Gumede

15:00 Tea

15:15 ScanIT – Optimizing core logging data acquisition - Megan du Plooy

15:35 Microseismic monitoring based approach to effective ground control management in unstable underground mines - Paul Matshona

15:55 Summary - Tony Martin