Workshop

Exploration QA/QC - field to lab to review

Maximising value while minimising cost


How many standards should be submitted? What about Blanks? How do you take a representative Duplicate? Is a replicate a duplicate? Should you try to maximise or minimise variability in a duplicate? Is this CRM matrix matched? Are soil duplicates a waste of money?


QA/QC is an integral part of exploration which is potentially done poorly. This one day workshop will address three components of the QA/QC process: how samples are collected in the field, what happens when samples get to the lab and how to interpret QC data. Case histories, exercises and videos will be used to illustrate concepts. Participants are invited to bring their own data.


Presenters

Mark Arundell - IMEx Consulting

Mark worked for RGC for ten years as a Mine Geologist in NT and Tasmania and as an Exploration Geologist in WA and East Australia. He then worked for North for five years at Northparkes and Lake Cowal then Yakabindie Ni in WA + IOCG projects in SA. This was followed by nine years with Rio Tinto working on Cu, iron ore, uranium, Ni, IOCG, potash, talc, and trona. Then followed a couple of years working in the Junior sector floating two companies Oakland Resources + Highfield Resources and now he’s consulting as a geologist + geochemist. Currently, most of his work involves applying geochemistry in the search for copper & gold mineralisation. Mark has presented over twenty geochemistry workshops in Australia and overseas to over 300 geologists.


Mark Pirlo – ALS Global

Mark Pirlo is a Registered Professional Geoscientist (Geochemistry) and Chartered Chemist with over 18 years of postdoctoral experience. He has worked for several Australian R&D providers on mineral exploration problems and as the exploration geochemist for a major Australian gold miner. However, most of Mark’s professional career has been working as an independent consultant focused on exploration geochemistry. Mark joined ALS in February 2020 and is based in Brisbane. He is keen to promote laboratory and field-based geochemical methods and options that allow explorers to get deeper insight and greater value from their samples.


Date & Time

9th May

8:30 for 9:00 start. Finish at 4:30pm.


Cost

$250 (+GST) Min of 10 and max of 20 people



Venue

Orange City, Bowling Club