Daily from 5 to 10 August 2012

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Cost:

Free

Easy self-guided walking trip covering metamorphosed Paleozoic deep sea sediments, Mesozoic ignimbrite, building stones on historical and heritage listed buildings, the Queensland Museum’s collections of recently discovered dinosaurs, Aboriginal artefacts and native animals; all within three kilometres of the conference centre. Bring a camera, no geological hammers.

Brisbane River, Botanical Gardens, Queensland Museum

Special Notes:

Self guided walk with maps provided from Congress Registration Desk

Saturday 11 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Stradbroke Island is one of the world’s largest sand islands with 285 square kilometres of vegetated dunes and heavy mineral and pure quartz sand mining adjacent to a National Park. Complex paleoclimatic history, freshwater lakes, aeolian deposits and sand dunes formed by wind transport, longshore drift during Quaternary high and low sea levels.

Stradbroke Island, sand mining, wildlife, Moreton Bay Marine Park and National Park

Dr Kevin Welsh, The University of Queensland

Saturday 11 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

 $130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Trip to the 100-km wide Tweed Volcano formed 25 to 23 million years ago. Stunning panoramic view points on edge of massive erosion caldera with vistas to Mt Warning at the volcanic core. 100-metre high waterfalls plunge over rhyolitic cliffs, with a chilled margin of perlite glass at their base.

Gold Coast hinterland and World Heritage listed Rainforests of Gondwana

Dr Kurt Knesel, The University of Queensland, Dr John Jackson, Warwick Willmott

Saturday 11 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Miocene mafic volcanic units display nature of explosive and eruptive processes and mantle-derived materials with abundant xenocrysts and ultramafic xenoliths. Quarry outcrops display mafics ranging from hawaiites, olivine nephelenites, leucite basanites to nepheline benmoreites. Excellent and sometimes complex exposures.

Scenery of the Great Dividing Range, the Garden City of Toowoomba and volcanic centres

Dr Edwin Wiley, The University of Queensland

Saturday 4 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Visits to sites where infrastructure projects encounter difficult and demanding geological conditions -the “Moving Mountain”, Wivenhoe Dam spillway and the vast gravel deposits in the Brisbane River around the productive farmland west of Brisbane in the Lockyer Valley.

Moving Mountain, Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba bypass pilot tunnel

Mr Ron Bathurst, Department of Transport and Main Roads

Saturday 4 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Visit a number of sites supplying clay and shale for making clay bricks, bentonite and palygorskite from lake deposits underlying Cenozoic basalt, and also the Triassic-Jurassic Helidon Sandstone used for many famous Queensland buildings.

Garden City of Toowoomba

Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd

Saturday 11 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Visit a number of sites supplying clay and shale for making clay bricks, bentonite and palygorskite from lake deposits underlying Cenozoic basalt, and also the Triassic-Jurassic Helidon Sandstone used for many famous Queensland buildings.

Garden City of Toowoomba

Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd

Saturday 4 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Field trip to the scenic Sunshine Coast inspecting construction materials. Quarries supply major deposits of coastal/dune and riverine sand and also from Carboniferous-Permian greenstones, hornfelsed carboniferous sediments, and oligocene trachytes, as well as large quarries of Triassic rhyolites and andesites.

Scenery of the Sunshine Coast

Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd, and Mr Kyle Waye, Holcim (Australia) Pty Ltd

Saturday 11 August 2012

Selected Brisbane Congress hotels

Numbers limited to 45

Cost:

$130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments

Field trip to the scenic Sunshine Coast inspecting construction materials. Quarries supply major deposits of coastal/dune and riverine sand and also from Carboniferous-Permian greenstones, hornfelsed carboniferous sediments, and oligocene trachytes, as well as large quarries of Triassic rhyolites and andesites.

Scenery of the Sunshine Coast

Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd, and Mr Kyle Waye, Holcim (Australia) Pty Ltd

Friday 3 August 2012

Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies QCAT, Pullenvale, QLD

Cost:

Free*

*Delegates will need their own transport to and from QCAT via car, taxi or bus.

*Lunch can be purchased onsite at the Cafe d'Bella.

CSIRO’s Queensland Centre for Advanced Technology is a technology precinct for the resources, energy and associated advanced technology industries. The trip will highlight the Virtual Mining Centre, CSIRO’s low emissions coal research focussed on coal gasification and syngas separation technologies, a demonstration on non-GPS dependant autonomous vehicles, advanced borehole logging research, and an overview of CSIRO coal research including coal characterisation, preparation, mine safety and optimisation research.

Visit the following website for more information and to book: http://www.cat.csiro.au/IGCongress.html

RSVP is essential. If you are interested please contact Damian Harris - or phone

•    The Virtual Mining Centre, an immersive space for controlling tele-robitics equipment as well as mine planning and visualisation;
•    CSIRO’s low emissions coal research focussed on coal gasification and syngas separation technologies;
•    A demonstration of non-GPS dependant autonomous vehicles;
•    Advanced borehole logging research;
•    An overview of CSIRO coal research including coal characterisation, preparation, and mine safety and optimisation research.

Dr Mike McWilliams, Chief, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering

Saturday 4 August 2012

Brisbane Convention and Exhbition Centre

Cost:

Free

Numbers are limited

Linc Energy cordially invites you to be our guest on a one-day field trip to the world’s only UCG to GTL facility, located near Chinchilla, west of Brisbane.

You’ll also have an opportunity to see some of the Australian landscape with the trip taking us through the fertile Lockyer Valley, to the city of Toowoomba, perched at the top of the Great Dividing Range escarpment and onto the western Darling Downs.

Our flagship demonstration plant - near Chinchilla, 300 kilometres from Brisbane - offers the chance to see the leading-edge technology developed there and hear from our expert team. You’ll also be able to observe the Gas to Liquids facility that turns the Syngas – produced via underground gasification - into ultra-clean fuel.

Our geologists and UCG specialists will provide expert commentary on UCG: how it works, how it differs from Coal Seam Gas, how the Gas to Liquids process works, what makes a coal seam suitable for UCG and the importance of environmental management.

PLEASE NOTE: Linc Energy is proudly sponsoring this Field Trip which is free-of-charge for IGC delegates, however numbers are strictly limited.

Register your interest by emailing us at: 

www.lincenergy.com

The world’s only UCG to GTL facility - Linc Energy's flagship demonstration plant, Australian landscape

Duncan New, Greg Perkins and Matthew Buchanan, Linc Energy 

6 days 5 nights - Monday 30 July to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Gladstone Marina, Gladstone
Finishes: Gladstone Marina, Gladstone

Numbers limited to 30

Cost:

Land:    $2680 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement:     $865   
Air:     $180

Travel by launch, Reef Voyager, to Heron Island, part of the Capricorn-Bunker group located at the Southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. The reef can be examined for reef zonation, reef-building processes during the Holocene, carbonate sediment types, their erosion and dispersal, carbonate facies distribution and early diagenetic phenomena.

Snorkelling in the tropical waters of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef with its cays, corals and stunning marine life. Resort accommodation on beautiful tropical Heron Island.

Dr John Jell, The University of Queensland

Special Notes:

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.   All meals and snorkelling activities are included.  Optional scuba diving and helicopter flights over Great Barrier Reef are available. 

6 days 5 nights - Saturday 11 AUgust to Thursday 16 August 2012
Starts: Gladstone Marina, Gladstone
Finishes: Gladstone Marina, Gladstone

Numbers limited to 30

Cost:

Land:    $2680 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement:     $865   
Air:     $180

Travel by launch, Reef Voyager, to Heron Island, part of the Capricorn-Bunker group located at the Southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. The reef can be examined for reef zonation, reef-building processes during the Holocene, carbonate sediment types, their erosion and dispersal, carbonate facies distribution and early diagenetic phenomena.

Snorkelling in the tropical waters of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef with its cays, corals and stunning marine life. Resort accommodation on beautiful tropical Heron Island.

Dr John Jell, The University of Queensland

Special Notes:

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.   All meals and snorkelling activities are included.  Optional scuba diving and helicopter flights over Great Barrier Reef are available.

7 days 6 nights - Saturday 11 August to Friday 17 August
Starts: Mount Isa 
Finishes: Mount Isa

Numbers limited to 14

Cost:

Land: $2950  per person share twin/double   
Single supplement: $845   
Air: $300

Travel to outback Queensland to the Mount Isa region. The world-class mineral province includes major Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, iron oxide Cu-Au, Mo, Re, phosphate and rare earth resources. Most mines are in Proterozoic host rocks and visits will cover origin, structure, and stratigraphy, with a comprehensive Time Space Chart detailing major vents in the Mount Isa - Cloncurry region.

Mount Isa, major mines, outback Queensland, wildlife

Dr Laurie Hutton, Geological Survey of Queensland and Dr Geoff Derrick, G M Derrick Geology

Special Notes:

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.   

6 days 5 nights - Monday 30 July to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Mount Isa 
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 20

Cost: 

Land: $1700 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement: $575   
Air:$550

Travel into outback Queensland to study crustal evolution of the Mount Isa region, with its Proterozoic sequences, its relationships to the Precambrian Rodinia and Nuna (Columbia) supercontinents. Examine aspects of regional structure, chronostratigraphy, magmatic history and basin architecture in the western and eastern successions.

Mount Isa, mines, outback Queensland, wildlife

Dr George Gibson, Geoscience Australia

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.  

5 days 4 nights - Saturday 11 August to Wednesday 15 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane 
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 15

Cost:

Land: $2140 per person share twin/double  
Single supplement: $550

Queensland’s energy province is dominated by the Bowen and Surat basins. Explore the geology behind the state’s hydrocarbon potential and world class coal deposits. The field trip will cross both basins with a transect spanning the Permian to Middle Jurassic units with explanations of the interpretations of the depositional systems that host these resource endowments.

Hiking trails and indigenous art at Carnarvon National Park and the prime grazing and agricultural country that characterises Queensland, in addition to its natural and mineral resources.

Dr Jonathan Hodgkinson and Mr Mike McKillop, Geological Survey of Queensland

7 days 6 nights - Saturday 11 August to Friday 17 August 2012
Starts: Airlie Beach Finishes: Airlie Beach

Numbers limited to 20

Land: $1990 per person share twin/double           
Air: $230

All accommodation and travel is by charter yacht in the protected waters of the beautiful Whitsunday Island group. This Early Cretaceous Silicic Large Igneous Province with its large extrusive volume led to a different style of volcanic rifted margin. Visit spectacular views of tilted and partly exhumed volcanic sequences.

Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area, Whitehaven Beach, yacht charter, marine life

Dr Scott Bryan, Queensland University of Technology

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.   Shared cabin accommodation only onboard yacht. All cabins have air-conditioning and ensuites. 

7 days 6 nights - Sunday 29 July to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Longreach
Finishes: Longreach

Numbers limited to 40

Land:$2655 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement: $620  
Air: $550

Travel to Longreach on outback Queensland to visit key Cretaceous (Aptian-Late Albian) dinosaur, marine reptile and invertebrate fossil sites in the Northern Eromanga Basin. Visit the Lark Quarry Dinosaur trackways, and see specimens of Australovenator, Diamantinasaurus and Kronosaurus.

Australia Age of Dinosaurs Museum, Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Qantas Museum in the outback town of Longreach, wildlife and outback hospitality

Dr Alex Cook, Queensland Museum

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.   Some collecting is permitted, but fossil experts from Australia need a letter of clearance.

5 days 4 nights - Saturday 11 August to Wednesday 15 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Rockhampton

Numbers limited to 30

Land: $1820 per person share twin/double      
Single supplement: $370

Travel west from Brisbane into country Queensland where the rich sites of the Darling Downs continue to provide new data on the late Neogene development of the biota. The unique faunas of the Plio-Pleistocene of southeast Queensland provide valuable insights into the development, diversity and demise of the Australian Megafauna, and the evolution of rainforest faunas during the Pleistocene.

Isla Gorge National Park, local wildlife

Dr Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland

5 days 4 nights - Tuesday 31 July to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 30

Land: $2130 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement: $615

Fraser Island is the world’s largest sand island and is a fantastic modern analogue for the formation of sand dominated sedimentary deposits - both onshore and offshore, including at abyssal depths. See parabolic dunes up to 5-km long, economic concentrations of ilmenite, rutile, and zircon, perched lakes, and coloured sands.

World Heritage listed Fraser Island, “coloured sands” lakes, rainforests, surf beaches, land and marine life

Mr Mal Jones, Geological Survey of Queensland

5 days 4 nights - Saturday 11 August to Wednesday 15 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 30

Land: $2130 per person share twin/double   
Single supplement: $615 

Fraser Island is the world’s largest sand island and is a fantastic modern analogue for the formation of sand dominated sedimentary deposits - both onshore and offshore, including at abyssal depths. See parabolic dunes up to 5-km long, economic concentrations of ilmenite, rutile, and zircon, perched lakes, and coloured sands.

World Heritage listed Fraser Island, “coloured sands” lakes, rainforests, surf beaches, land and marine life

Mr Mal Jones, Geological Survey of Queensland

2 days 1 night - Friday 3 August to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 30

Cost:

$800 per person share twin/double       
Single supplement: $68 

Only three hours drive south west from the subtropical city of Brisbane is a very different landscape – the cool, mountainous Granite Belt. This region is home to Bald Mountain (Australia’s “second largest rock monolith”), as well as the large granitic intrusions of The Pyramids, Balancing Rock and Castle Rock, as well as orchards and wineries. The trip also includes the World Heritage Rainforests of Gondwana national parks.

Granite Belt scenery, Bald Mountain, Balancing Rock

Mr Bob Bultitude, Geological Survey of Queensland

The trip includes an optional walk for about five kilometres through Girraween National Park (some steep gradients) and a good level of fitness is required.

2 days 1 night - Saturday 11 August to Sunday 12 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 30

Cost:

$800 per person share twin/double       
Single supplement: $68   

Only three hours drive south west from the subtropical city of Brisbane is a very different landscape – the cool, mountainous Granite Belt. This region is home to Bald Mountain (Australia’s “second largest rock monolith”), as well as the large granitic intrusions of The Pyramids, Balancing Rock and Castle Rock, as well as orchards and wineries. The trip also includes the World Heritage Rainforests of Gondwana national parks.

Granite Belt scenery, Bald Mountain, Balancing Rock

Mr Bob Bultitude, Geological Survey of Queensland

The trip includes an optional walk for about five kilometres through Girraween National Park (some steep gradients) and a good level of fitness is required.

3 days 2 nights - Saturday 11 August to Monday 13 August 2012
Starts: Brisbane
Finishes: Brisbane

Numbers limited to 40

$1020 per person share twin/double       
Single supplement: $125

The trip visits the historic gold mining town of Gympie. Discovered in 1867, Gympie is noted for its high grade collectors’ quality nuggety gold in lateral quartz veins. Visit the historic mining areas of Kilkivan and the Esk Trough, a volcanic trough of Permian-Triassic age with examples of porphyry style copper-gold deposits at Booubyjan and Coalstoun. Visits include the Cracow epithermal gold mine of low sulphidation style and the Mt Rawdon gold deposit hosted by breccias and altered volcanics related to a dacite intrusive event of late Triassic age.

Cracow, Gympie, Mount Rawdon Mines, southeast Queensland scenery

Mr Doug Young, AIG Queensland and ActivEX Ltd, and Mr Mike Erceg, Newcrest Mining

6 days 5 nights - Saturday 11 August to Thursday 16 August 2012
Starts: Cairns
Finishes: Townsville

Numbers limited to 30

Land: $2140 per person share twin/double        
Single supplement: $485            
Air: $290

Travel to the scenic Cairns hinterland in Far North Queensland to traverse the Silurian to Devonian rocks of the Mossman Orogen. Cross the Tasman Line, a major north-south structure that separates largely Paleozoic rocks to the east from the Proterozoic rocks of the North Australian Craton. The Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Etheridge Province, the Quaternary lavas at Copperfield Gorge, the world famous Undara Lava Tubes, the voluminous Carboniferous to Permian ignimbrite fields. Visit past and current mining at Chillagoe (gold and base metals) and Georgetown and Charters Towers (gold).

Tropical rainforest to savannah woodland, wildlife, outback scenery and culture, world-famous Undara Lava Tubes, mining history

Mr Ian Withnall, Geological Survey Queensland and Professor Bob Henderson, James Cook University

Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.