322 Economic Geology

Wednesday, 4 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 331/332

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  EARLY DIAGENETIC SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATIFORM COPPER DEPOSITS: SOURCING AND TRANSPORTING COPPER VIA A ROLL FRONT-LIKE FOOTWALL LEACHING MODEL
  Alex C. Brown, Pierrefonds, QC
  257924 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN CLAYS: A DOMESTIC RESOURCE FOR THE FUTURE?
  Nora Ayuso, DOI-US Geological Survey MS 954 National Center, Reston, VA and R. Ayuso, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  261380 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  HIGH PROPORTIONS OF ION-ADSORBED REES ON THE LIBERTY HILL PLUTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, A POSSIBLE LINK TO HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION
  Carleton R. Bern, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Nora Foley, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  268773 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACHES TO EVALUATING PLACER RARE-EARTH ELEMENT RESOURCES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COASTAL PLAIN
  Anjana Shah, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Carleton R. Bern, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Karl J. Ellefsen, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Bradley S. Van Gosen, Denver, CO and James R. Budahn, Denver, CO and William F. Benzel, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and David L. Daniels, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Adam Karst, Iluka Resources, Inc, Stony Creek, VA and Richard Bart Davis, Southern Ionics Minerals LLC, Jacksonville, FL
  262377 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  ORIGIN OF THE REE-BEARING CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN EPISYENITES AND CARBONATITES IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO, USA
  Virginia T. McLemore, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Nelia Dunbar, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Matthew Heizler, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM and O. Tapani Rämö, University of Helsinki
  262537 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY FOR ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE MOUNT BELKNAP VOLCANICS, SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH
  Brock Howell, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT and Steven H. Emerman, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT and Norm Christensen, Orem, UT
  264450 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  PETITHERMAL AND MICROPORPHYRY DEPOSITS: A NEW CLASS OF LINKED CU-AU DEPOSIT
  Jeremy P. Richards, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Ali Sholeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran
  267616 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  GENESIS OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC ROOINEKKE IRON AND MANGANESE ORE DEPOSIT OF THE TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH REFERENCE TO THE HISTORY OF FREE OXYGEN IN THE OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE
  Nicolas J. Beukes, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg and Jens Gutzmer, Freiberg and Stephanus J. Kruger, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park
  267347 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  OXYGEN ISOTOPE ZONATION ABOUT THE IZOK AG-ZN-CU VMS DEPOSIT, SLAVE PROVINCE, NUNAVUT, CANADA:HANGING WALL VECTOR TO MINERALIZATION
  Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON and Jan M. Peter, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON and Kati Laakso, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Benoit Rivard, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  268498 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  OUTER SHELF AND SLOPE SETTINGS FOR SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATIFORM ZN-PB DEPOSITS: EVIDENCE FROM ASSOCIATED PHOSPHORITES AND PHOSPHATE-RICH STRATA
  John F. Slack, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Hendrik Falck, Government of NWT, Yellowknife, NT and Julie Dumoulin, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK
  265731 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  NEW TECHNIQUES FOR USING TOURMALINE AS AN INDICATOR MINERAL FOR EXPLORATION: ANALYSIS BY LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) AND MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS
  Nancy McMillan, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM and John C. Curry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM and Barbara Dutrow, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Darrell J. Henry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  268075 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  THE MAJOR- AND TRACE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF GAHNITE AS A CHEMICAL DISCRIMINANT FOR GRANITIC PEGMATITES AND BROKEN HILL-TYPE PB-ZN-AG DEPOSITS
  Adriana Heimann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA and Jason A. Yonts, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and Michael A. Wise, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Paul G. Spry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Joshua J. O'Brien, Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Dwight Rodrigues Soares, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba (IFPB), N-PEG (Núcleo de Estudos de Pegmatitos), Campina Grande-Paraíba and Wolf Leyh, Broken Hill, New South Wales
  270582 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  IDENTIFIYING, RECORDING AND PRESERVING CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT SITES USING YOUR TABLET: THE DISRUPTION OF FIELD BASED GEOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION
  Alistair J. Hart, Atherton
  270735 (Technical Sessions)