The upcoming TIMREX Summer School 2022
Objectives
The objective of the school is to introduce innovative mineral exploration methods and techniques with special focus on exploration of hydrothermal ore deposits. Keynote lectures about magmatic-hydrothermal ore forming processes will be given by prof. Laurence Robb. The program is designed for earth science master students, primarily from the East-South-Eastern European (ESEE) region. Master students from field of mining engineering are also welcome.
Telkibánya is a well-known historical mining site of the Carpathian region, and the locality provides a good environment for field practice complementing the theoretical parts of the summer school.
The TIMREX project supports the participation of the students by a scholarship up to 500 € to cover the travel and subsistence costs. Eligibility for the scholarship will be defined by external evaluators based on the completed registration form.
Site location
Telkibánya - Hungary
Program
(L) = Lectures
(PC) = Practical classes, demos
(F) = Field programs
(S) = Social programs
7 June
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09:00 – 10:00 |
(L) Exploration challenges in the ESEE region, scope of the short course |
Ferenc Mádai |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
(L) Telkibánya geological setting and mining history |
János Földessy |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
(L) Careers in economic geology for young geoscientists |
Laurence Robb |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
(S) Mining museum visit |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
(L) Magmatic-hydrothermal ore-forming processes (porphyry Cu-Mo and epithermal Au-Ag deposits) |
Laurence Robb |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
(L) Hydrothermal processes (1, 2) – physical & chemical properties of aqueous solutions, fluid inclusions, ore-fluid compositions, solubility of metals in aqueous solutions, hydrothermal alteration |
Laurence Robb |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
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18:00 – |
(S) Barbecue, open fire |
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8 June
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09:00 – 10:00 |
(L) Hydrothermal processes (3) – precipitation mechanisms with examples |
Laurence Robb |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
(L) Sensors and field-based solutions for obtaining spectral chemistry information |
Boglárka Topa |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
(L) Advanced statistical analysis of multivariate (big) datasets |
Norbert Szabó |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
(F) Fieldwork 1: Educational path: Teréz-adit, Jó-hill gold mine pits, Koncfalva ruins of Medieval processing plant, soil sampling |
(F) Fieldwork 2: Mária-adit: hydrothermal alteration measurement, XRF, LIBS, spectral gamma radiation |
Mádai F, Móricz F
Topa B, Zajzon N |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
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18:00 – |
(S) Barbecue, open fire / local pub |
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9 June
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09:00 – 10:00 |
(L) New and innovative analytical methodologies in exploration geochemistry.
Integration, interpretation and modelling of high- precision multielement and hyperspectral datasets |
István Márton |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 17:00 |
(PC) Geochemical data evaluation practical part (groupworks: soil geochemistry dataset analysis, drillcore multispectral analysis)
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Topa B, Zajzon N, Leskó M
Mádai F, Papp R, Márton I
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17:00 – |
(S) Kosice sightseeing and dinner |
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10 June
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09:00 – 10:00 |
(L) UAV-based remote sensing data acquisition and integration in 3D models |
Richárd Papp |
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10:00 – 12:00 |
(L) Advanced geophysical methods in mineral exploration |
Geogold Kárpátia |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
(F) Pálháza perlite quarry site visit |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
(PC) Pálháza quarry drone demo and interpretation |
Geogold Kárpátia |
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16:00 – 18:00 |
(F) Mád Király-hill clay mineralization |
Éva Hartai |
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18:00- |
(S) Tállya vine tasting and dinner |
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11 June
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09:00 – 10:00 |
(L) Innovative solutions for and challenges in underwater spaces: sensor development, robotization |
Zajzon N, Papp R |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
(L) Two fresh exploration thesis works from the Tokaj Mountains |
Simon I, McCreery W (University of Oxford) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
(L) Next Generation Exploration Award group presentation |
NGEA team members |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Course leaders
Laurence Robb (FRSSAfr CGeol PrSciNat)
Before moving to the United Kingdom, Laurence Robb was Professor of Economic Geology in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa, and between 2001-2005, also Director of its Economic Geology Research Institute (EGRI). He is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. He has worked for over 30 years on many the great mineral districts of the African continent and is currently involved in research on the metallogeny of Myanmar/Burma and also Western Sahara. His main field of expertise is in granite related mineral deposits – he is also the author of the text-book, ‘Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes’ that is widely used all over the world. He served a term as President of the Geological Society of South Africa in 1999-2000 and was President of the Society of Economic Geologists, based in Denver, USA, in 2017.
Prof. Dr. Norbert Péter Szabó
Prof. Dr. Norbert Péter Szabó obtained his M.Sc. degree in geophysical engineering in 1999 from Faculty of Mining Engineering, University of Miskolc. He has been continuously working from graduating at the University of Miskolc. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2005. Since 2019, he has been a full professor at the Department of Geophysics. He is currently the head of Geophysical Department and vice-dean for scientific affairs at the Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering. He conducts research on geophysical inversion and exploratory (multivariate) statistical methods and their applications in earth sciences (mainly water and hydrocarbon prospecting). He delivers lectures on well logging, gravitational and magnetic exploration methods, engineering and environmental geophysics and geostatistics.
Dr. Norbert Zajzon
Dr. Norbert Zajzon completed his MSc and PhD studies about mineralogy, geochemistry and solid mineral resources at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research subject was instrumental mineralogy and geochemistry related to global environmental crises, mass extinctions. Until now he is dedicated to numerous analytical techniques in the geoscience field. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geology, and head of the Mineralogy – Petrology Department, University of Miskolc (Miskolc, Hungary), teaching instrumental mineralogy, ore deposits and astronomy and planetology and head of the microprobe laboratory and co-leader of the 3D laboratory. He has experience in numerous H2020 projects, like Robominers, or UNEXMIN where he was the coordinator. UNEXMIN project. The UNEXMIN results leaded to its continuation the EIT Raw Materials financed UNEXUP project where he also is the coordinator. He is also the scientific advisor of the UNEXMIN Georobotics Ltd, which was founded by the UNEXMIN consortium.
István Márton PhD
István Márton has obtained BSc and Msc in Romania at the Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj and University of Bucharest, respectively. Following a 3 years period working as Exploration Geologist in Apuseni Mts (Romania) he continued studies at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where he obtained PhD in 2008. After a short academic post-doc research period he has joined the exploration industry and since then, he has been working in the exploration and mining industry as an Exploration Geologist and Geochemist. The lecturer has been involved in target generation, greenfield- and brownfield- exploration and geometallurgical works in 8 countries being focused on Cretaceous–Miocene epithermal Au-Ag, polymetallic carbonate replacement Pb-Zn-Cu-Au, porphyry Cu-Au-Mo, sedimentary rock-hosted gold and Archean orogenic gold deposits. Since 2009 he is working also as visiting lecturer at the University of Babeş–Bolyai University teaching Introduction to Ore Deposits and Economic Geology courses and supervises bachelor/master student projects. More recently the Lecturer is acting as principal geoscientist consultant at Dundee Precious Metals with focus on exploration geochemistry, 3D modelling and drill target generation efforts of the company in greenfield and near-mine projects in Bulgaria, Serbia, Armenia and Canada.
Richárd Zoltán Papp
Richárd Zoltán Papp is the Managing Director at UNEXMIN GeoRobotics Ltd. He graduated from the Environmental sciences BSc at the Eötvös Loránd University and then from the Earth science engineering MSc at the University of Miskolc. He completed his PhD studies in mineralogy at the University of Miskolc and participated in the UNEXMIN (H2020) and UNEXUP (EIT RawMaterials) projects as a research fellow. Recently he is the head of the UNEXMIN Georobotics Ltd., the successor enterprise of the UNEXMIN project aiming to commercially exploit the multi-robot platform. The company positions itself as a R&D and commercial technology service provider capable of significantly extending the framework for mineral exploration and data acquisition methods, with robotic solutions (initially with underwater surveying) and integration of available geoscientific data acquired for greenfield or brownfield deep deposits exploration /development.
Registration
Eligibility for the scholarship will be defined by external evaluators based on the completed registration form:
DEADLINE: 4 APRIL 2022
