Ore Textures & Breccias

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

This subject is taugt through the Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences: https://vieps.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/.

85 hours

Knowledge of third-year geology strongly recommended

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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The course is designed to provide practical tools for exploration field professionals to identify and describe ore textures and breccias in mineralised systems.

• This subject aims to equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise appropriate for post-graduate research in the field;
• equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geologists in industry or government organisations; characterize ore textures and identify different breccia textures; distinguish between infill and alteration textures;
• determine paragenetic sequences and recognize these textures in drill core; recognize vein and alteration styles in porphryry and related magmatic hydrothermal ore deposits; and understand the physical and chemical factors that affect the formation of porphyry and related magmatic hydrothermal deposits.

• Multiple equally weighted laboratory assignments collectively equivalent to 1500 words, due one week after the end of the teaching period (60%)
• Ore project assessment equivalent to 1000 words, due one week after the end of the teaching period (40%)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Exercise critical judgement;
• undertake rigorous and independent thinking;
• adopt a problem-solving approach to new and unfamiliar tasks;
• develop high-level written report and/or oral presentation skills;
• interrogate, synthesise and interpret the published literature;
• work as part of a team.