Venue 1: 3010:
Economic Geology

Venue 2: 3013:
Igneous and Metamorphic Geology

Venue 3: 1013:
Environmental Geochemistry

Venue 4: 1020:
Earth Evolution

Tectonics, Seismology and Geological Hazards

Advances in Bushveld Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis

Climate, environments and landscapes of Africa since the Pliocene

Archaean Processes and Environments

09:00 - 09:15

ICDP-DSeis project to drill into the aftershock cloud of the 2014 Orkney earthquake
Raymond Durrheim

Keynote: Cr-distribution patterns in Bushveld magnetitite: a primary magmatic or secondary feature? Willem Kruger

Early Pleistocene habitat change at Collection Area 13 in the northeastern Turkana Basin, Kenya Silindokuhle Mavuso

Keynote: The Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe – some new age constraints and implications for greenstone belt evolution Axel Hofmann

09:15 - 09:30

Broadband Seismic Study of the Permian Basin, W Texas/SE New Mexico, USA Jay Pulliam

The significance of isotopic decoupling in the mafic-ultramafic layered sequence of the Bushveld Complex. Peace Zowa

Alkaline magmatism, palaeoclimatic evolution and supergene REE mineralisation in south western Africa Pete Siegfried

The Olifants River Greenstone Belt: A newly discovered Archaean greenstone remnant in the central Kruger National Park, South Africa Carl Anhaeusser

09:30 - 09:45

Keynote: ICDP drilling into the upper fringe of the aftershock zone of the 2014 Orkney M5.5 earthquake that ruptured an almost entire depth range of the West Rand Group Hiroshi Ogasawara

Petrogenesis of the apatite-enriched layers in the uppermost Upper Zone, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex: Insights from in situ LA-ICP-MS trace element and O isotopes in apatite Hakundwi Mandende

A reconstruction of Oligo-Miocene vegetation based on the palynology of core material from Langebaanweg, South Africa Moteng Moseri

Paleoarchean Buffalo River komatiites: Progressive melting of a single large mantle plume beneath the growing Kaapvaal craton Thendo Netshidzivhe

09:45 - 10:00

Time-lapse velocity changes during an open-pit mine slope failure Tjaart De Wit

Partial melting in the mantle: The importance of peritectic crystal entrainment for the formation of layered mafic intrusions and chromite seams. Tahnee Otto

A 300 ka terrestrial record from the Kalkkop impact crater, South Africa: initial palaeoenvironmental interpretations Kelly Kirsten

The influence of the Nucleation Delay of Magnesian Olivine on the Crystallization of Komatiite lava flows Jean-Baptiste Combaz

10:00 - 10:15

A Reappraisal of the Geology of the Vaalputs Facility, Namaqualand, South Africa: Monitoring Implications
Marco A G   Andreoli

A 5-km-thick magma column in the Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex
Rais Latypov

Vertical vs Horizontal tectonics: Insights from the tectonic style along the southern margin of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini
Deon J. Janse van Rensburg

10:15 - 10:45

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

Tectonics, Seismology and Geological Hazards

Advances in Bushveld Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis

Climate, environments and landscapes of Africa since the Pliocene

Archaean Processes and Environments

10:45 - 11:00

Monitoring seismic sources and volcanic processes in the near field and the anticipation of tectonic events in Costa Rica Marino Protti

Assimilation of siliceous and carbonaceous xenoliths in the Upper Critical Zone of the northern limb, Bushveld Complex: Implication for hybridization reactions Siyasanga Dyan

The first geological study of Lefika la Noka tufa deposits in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa Tariye Onyeogu

Geologic framework and first results from ICDP BASE drilling in the Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Christoph Heubeck

11:00 - 11:15

Exceptional scarp preservation in SW Namibia reveals geological controls on large magnitude intraplate seismicity in southern Africa Robert Muir

Lithological characterization of the shallow Platreef contact-style mineralization Refilwe Moeletsi

Terrestrial temperature evolution of southern Africa during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene: evidence from the Mfabeni Peatland Susanne Fietz

Late Archean microbial ecosystems of the 2.52 Ga Gamohaan Formation: new insights from drill core AHL-4 Nicola McLoughlin

11:15 - 11:30

Inherited structural control on large stable continental region (SCR) earthquakes: comparison of active fault scarps with mapping from aeromagnetic data in Botswana and Namibia Beth Kahle

Facial variations of precious metal grade and tenor in the Waterberg Project ore-bearing units and their significance for models of ore formation Sehlabane Aleck Mkhabela

Observed mechanisms leading to capacity loss in the Gariep Dam in the Orange River of South Africa due to global change Willem De Clercq

Microfossil detections in the Palaeoarchaean Barberton Greenstone Belt Frances Westall

11:30 - 11:45

Microseismicity associated with the Hebron Fault scarp, a major neotectonic earthquake rupture in SW Namibia Benjamin Whitehead

New insights into the Platreef at Sandsloot: Magmatic stratigraphy and Ni-Cu-PGE distribution Erin Thompson

Holocene paleoecology of a wetland along Gerhard Minnebron River, North West Province, South Africa-Tracking climate change and anthropogenic activities Frank Harald Neumann

Microbially induced sedimentary structures in Archean clastic lithologies and their modern counterparts Nora Noffke

11:45 - 12:00

A new GNSS (GPS) velocity field for South Africa based on the TrigNet network: Implications for strain rate and seismic hazard
Amir Abolghasem

Platinum group element and base metal sulfide variation in the Critical Zone at Sandsloot, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: beyond the traditional mining horizon. Kate Canham

Keynote: 20 years of U-series dating carbonates from South Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly. Robyn Pickering

Geodynamic evolution of the Giyani Greenstone Belt and its implication to gold mineralisation in the region Ndivhuwo Mukosi

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch (own arrangements)

Ore-structure relationships

Advances in Bushveld Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis

Environmental Geochemistry

Archaean Processes and Environments

13:00 - 13:15

Some lessons learned from rockburst studies Gerhard van Aswegen

Keynote: Evidence of localized hydromagmatic control on PGE distribution in the Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa Stephen Prevec

The increase of dust source points on the west coast of South Africa and their relationship to land cover and drought Heleen Vos

Keynote: Metamorphism of the Stolzburg Block, Barberton Granitoid Greenstone Terrain: Implications for the evolution of the Archaean continental crust Moritz Mühlberg

13:15 - 13:30

Structure, alteration, and genesis of copper mineralisation at the Onganja Mining District, Namibia Matthew Hales

Evidence of reactive melt flow in the petrogenesis of the platiniferous Merensky Reef Reza Maghdour-Mashhour

The impact of climate change on Zambezi River Basin: implications to water-energy-food nexus in Southern African Region Sonwabile Rasmeni

Coupled Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf and 142Nd isotope systematics of the 3.25 Ga Stolzburg Complex, Kaapvaal Craton Robert Bolhar

13:30 - 13:45

Regional- to Deposit-scale Structural Controls on the Emplacement of the Miduk Cu Porphyry, Kerman Porphyry Copper Belt, Urumieh-Doktar Magmatic Arc, Iran Corné Koegelenberg

A volcanic-plutonic contribution to magmatic ore formation in Large Igneous Provinces Marina Yudovskaya

Using passive sampling to evaluate aquatic pesticide pollution in the Western Cape, South Africa Emma Davies

In situ dating and thermometry in zircon from Archean high-K magmatism in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Marcel Vinicius Santos Leandro

13:45 - 14:00

3D modelling of cupriferous basic bodies (Koperberg Suite) from the Narrap Mine, Okiep Copper District – constraints on emplacement controls and orebody geometries. Andeon Bester

Ancient mantle plume contamination and preconditioning of PGE wealth in the Bushveld Large Igneous Province Grant Bybee

Keynote: Exchange of dissolved Pb between Indian and Atlantic oceans: Role of Agulhas Current and atmospheric Pb input from South Africa Saumik Samanta

The geochemistry of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to crustal evolution Laurence Robb

14:00 - 14:15

Lithological and structural controls of gold mineralization of the MEM2 deposit in the Murchison Greenstone Belt, South Africa Luke Carlton

Formation of continental crust during Bushveld magmatism Christopher Hatton

Characterizing Phytoplankton Communities: A Southern Ocean Case Study of Environmental Coupling and Consequences in a Climate Change Context Liam Quinlan

200 Ma of melting and deformation of the Archaean crust: the Northern margin of the Kaapvaal cratonP Jean-François Moyen

14:15 - 14:30

Controls of fluid flow and mineralization at the Twin Hills gold prospects in the Central Zone of the Damara Belt, Namibia Josia Shilunga

Deep drilling in the Bushveld Complex: The BVDP Project Susan Webb

Seasonality of Cadmium in the Southern Ocean Nadine Ellis

Deformation/melting of the Archaean crust: new insights from the Northern Kaapvaal and Barberton Granite Greenstone belt areas, South Africa Alain Chauvet

14:30 - 15:00

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

Ore-structure relationships

Advances in Bushveld Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis

Environmental Geochemistry

Archaean Processes and Environments

15:00 - 15:15

Structural controls of fluid flow and 3D geometry of high-grade oreshoots at Namoya Gold Mine, Kivu Region, DRC Jonathan Gloyn-Jones

Underrated and Overlooked: The magmatic-hydrothermal transition recorded by trace elements-in-quartz Leonidas Vonopartis

Developing a Mine Waste Atlas for the Northern Cape Province, South Africa Bavisha Koovarjee

The Chinamora batholith (Zimbabwe craton) re-visited: a geophysical test of (magma transport and) emplacement mechanism Rubeni Ranganai (withdrawn)

15:15 - 15:30

Lithostructural Mapping of Neoproterozoic Basement Complex Terrane of Wawa Area, Western Nigeria: Implications for Epizonal-Orogenic Gold Potential Sodiq Alimi

Geochemical insights into the formation of the Rooiberg Group, Bushveld Large Igneous Province, South Africa Teimoor Nazari-Dehkordi

Extraction of metals from native plant species at Klein Letaba gold mine tailings, Limpopo Province, South Africa Phumudzo Gift Munyai

Spatial and temporary association of Neoarchaean Sanukitoid Diorite, Trondhjemite and High-K Granite in the Francistown Granite-Greenstone Complex: Implication on the geodynamic processes in the SW margin of the Zimbabwe craton Zibisani Bagai

Ore-structure relationships

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

Environmental Geochemistry

Archaean Processes and Environments

15:30 - 15:45

Structural Evolution and Mineralization of the Intensely-Deformed Golegohar Iron Ore Complex – Insights from Detailed Structural Mapping and 3D Geological Modelling of Golegohar Mine 1, Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran Corné Koegelenberg

Keynote: Diamonds delivered to the Atlantic Coast: are 3 billion carats still valid? Mike de Wit

Trace Metal Detection Along an AMD-Contaminated Stream Using VNIR-SWIR Spectroscopy Jamie-leigh Abrahams

Review of the Archean Ntem craton and a new petrological survey into its greenstone-granitoid terrain in the Republic of Congo Legran Juldit Espoir Plavy Ntsiele

15:45 - 16:00

Structural control on gold mineralisation in the southwestern part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt (South Africa, Eswatini) Laurine Travers

The Origin of Karoo-age Diamondiferous Lamproites in Eastern Zambia Ntando Ngwenya

LIFE OF COAL- FROM COAL TO FLY ASH: Monitoring the variations in mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry during coal combustion Sivuyile Mkhondweni

Paleomagnetic results from the Mesoarchean Nsuze flood basalts Michiel Olivier De Kock

Ore-structure relationships

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

Advances in southern African Hydrogeology

Archaean Processes and Environments

16:00 - 16:15

An emerging 3T’s (tin-tantalum-tungsten) metallogenic province in the Uis district of central Namibia – geological and metallogenic framework Laurence Robb

Petrology and geochemistry of the K-richterite- and leucite-bearing Kareevlei Kaapvaal lamproite Zuko Qashani

Advances made in geothermal energy in South Africa Musarrat Safi

Climatic control on the 2.9 Ga gold mega-event Hartwig Frimmel

16:15 - 16:30

Structural setting, emplacement controls and evolution of selected pegmatites in the Orange River pegmatite belt, Namaqua Metamorphic Province, Southern Africa Gharlied Abrahams

Nature and origin of the Jwaneng kimberlite (pipe-8) from the NW margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, Botswana Beberto Baloyi

Analysis of hydrological parameters in the Central Karoo: Implications for flooding in Beaufort West Aarifah Williams

Ventersdorp-related metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome Kimberley Beaton

16:30 - 19:00

Poster session - 2nd floor