This is the new official website of the CODES Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists, providing information on upcoming talks, social events, field trips and general proceedings.

Objectives of the Student Chapter

The common objectives of the Student Chapter and the Society of Economic Geologists are as follows:

To advance the science of geology through the scientific investigation of mineral deposits and mineral resources and the application thereof to minerals exploration, mineral resource appraisal, mining, and mineral extraction endeavours;

To disseminate basic and applied scientific information arising from investigations of mineral deposits and mineral resources through Society publications, meetings, conferences, symposia, field trips, short courses, workshops, and lecture series; and

To advance the status of the profession of economic geology and maintain a high professional and ethical standard among Society members.

Latest News!

Geology & Ore Deposits of Thailand and Laos excursion (February 2010)

Modern Concepts in Physical Volcanology Workshop (26-30 October 2009)

The workshop “Modern concepts in Volcanology” was successfully held during the last week of October at CODES, University of Tasmania. Organised by a small committee from the local SEG-student chapter, the workshop comprised 5 days of talks given by seven local staff, as well as two invited speakers, Prof. Colin Wilson (Victoria U., NZ) and Dr. Darren Gravley (U. Canterbury, NZ). More than 35 participants attended the workshop, mostly students from CODES, but also from various interstate universities, New Zealand and Canada. The workshop was supported by CODES, the SEG-student chapter and the LAVA association, and we would like to thanks all sponsors for their wonderful help.
The program of the workshop spanned several topics, including the products of explosive and effusive volcanism, the Taupo Volcanic Zone (New Zealand), pyroclastic density currents, subaqueous volcanism and alteration facies in volcanic rocks. Colin Wilson was the major speaker, with a record of 10 talks given during the week! Particular highlights of the workshop were the relationship in between regional tectonism, caldera formation and super-eruptions, like in the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Colin Wilson re-assessed his model of fluidization for the deposition from highly-turbulent pyroclastic density currents, and compared it to other available models of deposition. Sharon Allen presented the model of Neptunian eruption, which describes a gas-driven, pumice-forming, explosive subaqueous eruption, to which numerous depositional facies worldwide can be linked. Finally, a group of CODES’ staff presented the many ways how and why volcanic deposits are altered, and the tools to reconstruct their original textures. The workshop finished with a practical session focussed on subaerial and subaqueous volcanic textures, presented by Jocelyn McPhie.
Graduate students benefited from the large range of expertise of the speakers, and informal sessions were also held to discuss participant’s research projects. Finally, various social events (barbecue, cheese & wine tasting party) were organised during the week, which lubricated more discussion time, as well as bonding in between different university groups.

Andrea Agangi & Martin Jutzeler

Photo credits: Pedro Fonseca and Steve Calladine

August 2009: On Tue August 11, Prof Ray Cas has visited CODES and presented the research his group is conducting at Monash University.

Several other presentations and workshops are scheduled for the next months. For more info, see the Seminars page.

July 2009: As you can see (!) the new SEG website is now online. We hope to update this website regularly with news of forthcoming events, seminars and field trips, as well as posting pictures and information about functions you may have missed. Please check the website regularly for updates. We welcome any feedback from our own members, as well as those of you visiting the site.

Next SEG meeting: TBC

Special reports on the Indonesia 2009 field trip by Fiona Best will be in the next official SEG newsletter as well as the UTAS newsletter.

Two field trips have been successfully completed this year:

 - The Mineralization and Volcanism of Indonesia field trip (25 Jan – 4 Feb 2009) was organised by the CODES-SEG and funded by Teck, Newcrest, Barrick, AngloGold Ashanti, Goldfields, St. Barbara, the Society of Economic Geology and CODES.

 - The Tertiary Pillow Lavas and Associated Facies field trip to Cape Grim, NW Tasmania (28 Feb – 3 March) was organised by the CODES-Volcanology Group (Martin Jutzeler and Sarah Gordee) and co-funded by CODES-SEG.

 On February, 25 the new committee was elected. Many thanks to the 2008 committee for their excellent work.

The SEG are pleased to announce that several members were selected to receive research grants this year. The grants were awarded as follows:

Hugo E. McKinstry Student Research Awards:

Nathan Fox, $2600: Controls on alteration and mineralization, Cadia Au-Cu deposit, NSW, Australia.

Anita K. Parbhakar, $2000: Predictive environmental mineralogy and geochemical techniques.

Newmont Student Research Grants:

Lindsey V. Clark, $1000: Geology of the Kencana Au-Ag epithermal deposit, Halmahera, Indonesia.

Takayuki Manaka, $3000: Geology of Au mineralization at Phuoc Son goldfield, central Vietnam.