Dennis Arne presents 'Gold Exploration in Victoria: Renaissance, Resurrection, Replay?'

Dennis Arne (Telemark Geosciences) presents 'Gold Exploration in Victoria: Renaissance, Resurrection, Replay?' at the GSA SGEG Facets of exploration webinar.

Abstract: Gold exploration in Victoria has benefited from a renaissance in our understanding of the geology of central Victorian gold deposits with respect to tectonic setting, timing, structural controls and hydrothermal alteration. While gold production within Victoria has slowly been on the rise since the late 1980s (the resurrection), it was the discovery of the Swan zone at Fosterville that led to it becoming one of the most profitable gold mines globally in the last three years, as well as driving record investment in gold exploration in Victoria. Despite our new understanding of gold mineralization in central Victoria, it is not clear that these new concepts are being incorporated into exploration strategies. The Victorian exploration industry risks discovering more of the same style of gold mineralization that has proven to be economically unviable in the past
Biography: Dennis Arne has 40 years’ experience in geology and applied geochemistry globally. He has overseen regional geochemical exploration programs in the Yukon, British Columbia, Nunavut and northern Quebec in Canada, the USA, eastern Australia, Suriname, Sudan and Laos. He was Managing Director and Principal Consultant - Geochemistry of CSA Global Canada until late 2017, General Manager and Principal Consultant – Geochemistry for Revelation Geoscience (purchased by CSA Global in 2012), Principal Consulting Geochemist with ioGlobal (now Reflex Geochemistry) and formerly Senior Geochemist with Geoscience Victoria (now Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia). Dennis is currently director and principal consulting geochemist at Telemark Geosciences and was until late 2021 Director of Exploration for E79 Resources. He is a Fellow and former President of the Association of Applied Geochemists, is a Member and a Registered Professional Geoscientist (Geochemistry) of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (#10064), and a registered Professional Geoscientist in British Columbia, Canada (#34686).