Venue 1: 3010:
Economic Geology

Venue 2: 3013:
Igneous and Metamorphic Geology

Venue 3: 1013:
Environmental Geochemistry

Venue 4: 1020:
Earth Evolution

Future of petroleum geosciences in southern Africa

Diamonds, kimberlites and cratonic lithosphere: a session in honour of John J. Gurney

Advances in southern African Hydrogeology

Archaean Processes and Environments

08:45 - 09:00

Keynote: Seismic characterization and hydrocarbon potential of the deepwater sedimentary succession off the East Coast of South Africa Reagan Africa

Keynote: Ultra-deep Perovskite-bearing Xenoliths from a Kimberlite Complex, Liberia, West Africa Stephen Haggerty

Keynote: Hydrogeology under siege Roger Parsons

Are the Ventersdorp Supergroup and Marydale Group coeval? Dave Cornell

09:00 - 09:15

The potential of hydrocarbons in Durban Basin, South Africa Sithembele Zangqa

Subduction origins of Roberts Victor eclogites? Christopher Hatton

The O-, H-, and Sr-isotope composition of Cape Town groundwater; implications for recharge and sustainability Chris Harris

Trace element geochemistry and U-Pb dating of the limestone-dominated Lime Acres Member, of the Campbell Group, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa: Implications for Neoarchean carbonate platform formation, diagenesis and dolomitization Mmasetena Anna Molekwa

09:15 - 09:30

Reprocessing of legacy seismic profile for shale gas exploration in the Karoo Basin (South Africa) Robel Berhanu

Diamond growth and resorption morphologies observed in situ using 3D X-ray tomography of diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths Geoffrey Howarth

Hydrogeological characterisation of the coastal aquifer in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa Esinam Kokui Abla Tamakloe

Cyanobacteria-dominated microbialites >120 Myr before the Great Oxygenation Event Keyron Hickman-Lewis

09:30 - 09:45

A Community of Practice to develop high-level skills in petroleum geoscience Raymond Durrheim

The Formation of Micro-Diamonds in Decompression-Cracks During the Uplift of the Kimberlite Controlled by the C:O:H Ratio in NAMS Holger Sommer

Hydrogeochemical characterisation of groundwater quality in Ndlambe coastline: Implication for saltwater intrusion Mthulisi Mpofu

Assessing the U-Pb AND Sm-Nd Isotope composition of vermilion monazite: A 2.67 Ga reference material to investigate Archean crustal processes Ariela Mazoz

09:45 - 10:00

Using 1D and 2D Basin and Petroleum Systems Modelling (BPSM) to "Unravel" the Karoo Basin's Hydrocarbon Resource Potential
Selwyn Adams

Using kimberlite indicator mineral geochemistry to better constrain lithospheric chemical and thermal structure of the Kaapvaal Craton: correlations with S-to-P receiver functions
Sinelethu Hashibi

Estimating Water Storage Change using GRACE satellite data and Machine Learning in Western Cape-South Africa
Maal Adam

Ca. 2580-2574 Ma mafic magmatism in Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal: implication for amalgamation along the Limpopo Belt
Ashley Gumsley

10:00 - 10:30

Tea / Coffee Break - 1st, 2nd, 3rd floor

Solid fossil fuel resources

Diamonds, kimberlites and cratonic lithosphere: a session in honour of John J. Gurney

Current and future outlook for Carbon Capture and Storage in South Africa and abroad

The Proterozoic of Africa

10:30 - 10:45

Keynote: Our Coal Addiction Lesley Jeffrey

Kimberlite and HIMU paradoxes: megacrysts provide the link Philip Janney

Catalogue of South African mine tailings for geochemical carbon dioxide removal purposes Maxwell Amponsah-Dacosta

Keynote: Mortar texture and magma dynamics in the massif-type anorthosites of the Kunene Complex, Angola Trishya Owen-Smith

10:45 - 11:00

Petrological characterization of three coal seams of the Imaloto basin, South-Western Madagascar Moses Babila Ndasi

Oxygen isotope variations in kimberlite megacrysts from the Monastery kimberlite Joshua van Blerk

Characterisation of the sedimentology and CO2 storage potential of the A-E1 well, offshore Orange Basin, South Africa Nigel Hicks

Preliminary results on the tectonic evolution of the Zebra Lobe, Kunene Complex (Namibia) using structural geology and geophysic Tshepiso Sekhula

11:00 - 11:15

Characterizing Late Triassic Molteno Coals in Taung, Lesotho Sentle Hlajoane

Crystallization and segregation of carbonated silicate melt in kimberlitic melt inclusions from the Monastery kimberlite Steffen Büttner

Investigating passive mineral carbonation in kimberlite tailings from Cullinan Diamond Mine, South Africa Thandiwe Nompumelelo Colette Nhlabathi

Potential Kunene-related mafic dyke swarms Martin Klausen

11:15 - 11:30

A comparative assessment of rare earth elements in borehole cores from the Ermelo & Witbank Coalfields, South Africa Duduzile Modiba

Groundmass mineralogy and olivine composition correlations in Sierra Leone kimberlites provide constraints on craton-specific melt-lithosphere interactions Anton Viljoen

A quantitative geochemical assessment of old slimes tailings from two South African kimberlite diamond mines: implications on the development and standardization of a procedure for mineral-carbonation resource estimation Mpho Vele

Geochemistry and metal fertility of the peripheral intrusions along the SW Kunene Anorthosite Complex of Angola and Namibia Estian Van Zyl

11:30 - 11:45

Basin Analysis of the Molteno-Indwe Coalfield in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Mzoli Breakfast

Kimberlitic olivines from pipes in the Orapa, Jwaneng and Tsabong clusters in Botswana, and what they reveal about the evolution of kimberlite magmas Alexander Proyer

In-situ trace element characterisation of Fe(-Ti)-oxides of the peripheral intrusions of the Kunene Complex, Angola and Namibia Lize Oosthuizen

11:45 - 12:15

Comfort Break

General ore geology

Igneous beyond the obvious

Planetary Geology: Earth, Moon and Beyond

The Proterozoic of Africa

12:15 - 12:30

Keynote: Energy Transition and Southern Africa’s potential in raw material supply chains Nils Backeberg

Keynote: No LIP Service to Mantle Plumes Gillian Foulger

Giant impacts and geological cycles Christopher Hatton

Keynote: Deep structure and neotectonics of southern Africa revealed AfricaArray seismograph networks Raymond Durrheim

12:30 - 12:45

The genesis of hydrothermal graphite and fluorite veins in the Aukam valley, southwest Namibia – a consequence of large scale, late Neoproterozoic hydrothermal systems? Pete Siegfried

Seismic Tomography: Mantle Images or Mirages? Bruce Julian

Keynote: Proximal impact ejecta from the Vredefort impact structure: Implications for Proterozoic stratigraphy Matthew Huber

The stratigraphic interpretation of the T-Goob Succession and its correlation to the Western Aggeneys Terrane Wayne Justin Nel

12:45 - 13:00

Granite-hosted uranium deposits (GHUD): Towards a process-based model with insights from Namibia Paul Nex

Continental mafic LIPs: hot or wet? Alexei Ivanov

The good, the bad and the ugly revealed by TEM: Three types of polygranular neoblastic zircon recrystallized after shock Elizaveta Kovaleva

Structural and stratigraphic analysis of the T-Goob Structure, within the eastern Mesoproterozoic Aggeneys Terrane Wayne Justin Nel

13:00 - 13:15

Keynote: Lithium in Africa - where is it coming from and where is it going to? Judith Kinnaird

Is Iceland a Continental LIP? Gillian Foulger

Application of Raman spectroscopy for studying shocked zircon from terrestrial impactites Dmitry Zamyatin

Structural and geochronological constraints on polyphase deformation in the southern Central Zone of the Damara Orogen, Namibia Robyn Ormond

13:15 - 13:30

Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of the Gamsberg zinc deposit Khensani Moses

Iceland and the C-block model Prof. Laurent Geoffroy

Mapping features potentially related to glacio – volcanic activity in Utopia Planitia, Mars Magdalena Baranowska

The Neoproterozoic Pan-African- Brasiliano Orogeny of Western Gondwana using Landsat8 OLI satellite imagery Katherine Winkler

13:30 - 14:00

Lunch (own arrangements)

Igneous beyond the obvious

14:00 - 14:15

Iceland: mantle plume or microcontinent? A zircon study Jordan Phethean

14:15 - 14:30

Dynamics of mantle melting at LIPs Laurent Geoffroy

14:30 - 14:45

The not-so-Great Meteor Hotpot cannot explain Eastern Canada seismicity Alexander Peace

14:45 - 15:00

The Marion Hotspot Track Isn’t Henry Dick

15:00 - 15:30

Comfort Break

15:30 - 15:45

The Deccan Traps (India) and other flood basalts on rifted continental margins: Who needs mantle plumes? Hetu Sheth

15:45 - 16:00

Gondwana break-up related magmatism in the Falkland Islands Malcolm Hole

16:00 - 16:15

Considering Karoo Magmatism James H. Natland

16:15 - 16:30

Downwelling dense mantle residues generates mid-ocean-ridge hotspots and magma-rich continental breakup: Application to the Karoo large igneous province Jordan Phethean