Workshop Schedule

Technical Session
1.5 days of presentations and core viewing
Lunchtime Tuesday 14 April – Wednesday 15 April
PCYC, 29/35 Enterprise Road
Charters Towers

Social Event
Evening, Tuesday 14 April
(included in registration for the Technical Session)

Field Trip
Thursday 16 April

Registration Fees 

AUD inclusive of GST

Technical Session
EGRU Member              $570.00
Non Member                 $720.00
Student                           $270.00

Field Trip
EGRU Member              $175.00
Non Member                 $175.00
Student                           $100.00

Registration for the Technical Session is still open.

Registration will close Tuesday 7 April 2026.

Please note registration for the field trip has closed and we are at capacity. If you would like to be placed on the field trip wait list please email Amanda Nulty

Technical Session

Program

The program includes presentations from:

• Edward Fry, Ballymore Resources
  Torpy’s – a new intrusion-related Ag-Pb-Zn system
• Alex Brown, Lithinsight
  Structure and geochemistry at the Dover Castle polymetallic deposit
• Danastri Tampabolon, EGRU JCU
  Deep seismic reflection data – crustal architecture along seismic line 07GA-A1, northern Queensland
• Jonghyun Lee, EGRU JCU
  Porphyry Cu fertility of Carboniferous-Permian granitoids in the Georgetown region, NE Queensland
• Nick Lisowiec, Gold Fields Ltd
  North Queensland projects
• Christa Placzek, Terra Solutions
  Exploration to production – a hydrogeological perspective
• David Webb, Ballymore Resources
  Ruddygore Project Area – opportunities and challenges
• Alex Edgar, UWA CET
  Basement geology – what, when, where and why?
• Gregg Morrison & Reza Husseini for EMU N.L.
  The Yataga plutonic Cu-Ag deposit, Georgetown, North Queensland
• Lauren Grech, Geological Survey of Queensland
  GSQ project update – Porphyry fertility in the New England Orogen
• Cameron Switzer, Cannindah Resources, jointly with the GSQ
  Characteristis of SE Queensland porphyry Cu systems
• Frazer Tabeart, Alman Metals
  Geology and geological setting of the Briggs Porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Central Queensland 
• Neil Macalalad, NQM Gold 2
  The Pajingo low-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver deposits
• Simon Beams, Terra Search / Loyal Metals
  The Highway-Reward Cu-Au massive sulphide: a four decade journey from exploration and discovery to development and rejuvenation
• Al-Tamini Tapu, Geological Survey of Queensland
  Overview of the Ravenswood District
• Hugo Serra, EGRU JCU
  Magmatic History of the Ravenswood block
• Steve Harper, Ravenswood Gold
  Exploration at Ravenswood
• Tav Bates, Sunshine Metals
  The Liontown Au-Ag-base metal VHMS and Francis Creek Au epithermal projects

There will be a core, hand specimen and poster display at the venue, and an opportunity to visit the Terra Search core yard to view:

• Intervals of massive sulphide and supergene copper from recent drilling at the Highway Reward copper – gold deposit
• Intersections of the breccia from the world class Mount Leyshon gold deposit

Field Trip

The field trip is generously hosted by Sunshine Metals.

The trip will travel to the Liontown Project south of Charters Towers to view:

• Historic workings, dumps and the remains of the historic battery and furnace.
• Exposures of feeder style Cu-Au mineralisation and stratiform Pb-Zn mineralisation, and the volcanic footwall and sedimentary hanging wall sequences.

The trip will then travel to the Sunshine Metals core yard in Charters Towers to view a selection of:

• Liontown diamond drill holes illustrating the stratigraphy and mineralisation styles.
• Francis Creek diamond drill holes illustrating various epithermal vein textures and mineralisation.

Field Trip Requirements

Hat, steel cap boots, long sleeved shirts, long pants
Safety glasses for anyone planning to break rocks