Overview

This online version of the successful 3-days Exploration Geochemistry short course, originally established in 2015, provides an alternative to the classroom-based format and facilitates independent study in your own time, wherever you are based around the world. The course will be particularly useful to postgraduate students, early industry professionals and mid-level career geologists who intend to improve their skills in geochemical exploration techniques, but cannot attend classroom-based courses in person, or prefer to study the learning materials over the course of several weeks.

Important Information

• Students receive a 50% discount on the course. Please email a valid student registration confirmation to [email protected] to receive a voucher.
• When you have subscribed to the online course, you will receive login details by email. Your access will be enabled instantly and will be valid for 60 days. A certificate will be provided after successful completion of three written assignments. Should your access time out after 60 days, you will have to purchase another subscription.
• The course includes 2 x 1 h tutorial sessions arranged over MS Teams or Zoom.

Course content

PART 1 – FUNDAMENTALS

Block 1: Fundamentals of Geochemical Exploration

Block 2: Soil Sampling

Block 3: Glacial Till Sampling

Block 4: Stream Sediment Sampling

Block 5: Rock sampling and specialised geochemical surveys

PART 2 – ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND QAQC

Block 6: Analytical Geochemistry (Written Assignment)

Block 7: Quality Assurance & Control (QAQC) (Written Assignment)

Block 8: The Use of Portable XRF analysers

PART 3 – PRACTICAL GEOCHEMICAL DATA HANDLING, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

Block 9: Introduction to ioGas

Block 10: Geochemical interpretation and concepts of lithogeochemical mapping

Block 11: Geochemical Levelling and Data Transformations

Block 12: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Block 13: Final Written Assignment – SE Ireland Exploration Targeting