International Study Tours These tours were high level professional development courses aimed at geologists within the minerals industry, 37 tours took ~650 geologists from around the globe, on more than 400 technical visits to the world's classic ore deposits, Our Study Tours were discontinued from late 2019.

Between 1997 and 2019  PorterGeo  organised: Who went & what they saw

OzGold 2019 Australian Gold Deposits - November 2019 Andean Porphyries 2018 - Peru and Ecuador Porphyry Copper & Gold in the Andes, June 2018 Andean Porphyries 2017 - Chile Porphyry Copper & Gold in the Andes, April 2017 CopperBelts 2014 Sediment Hosted Copper in Africa & Europe IOCG 2013 Australian Iron-oxide Copper-Gold Deposits Epithermal Gold 2012 Epithermal Gold of the Western Pacific OzGold 2011 Major Australian Gold Deposits AsiaPacific 2010 Asia Pacific Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposits Iron 2010 Major Iron Deposits, Brazil/South Africa Uranium 2009 Australian Uranium Deposits Tethyan 2008 Gold & Copper in the Western Tethyan Belt ADIMB Australia 2008 Australian Gold & Base Metal Deposits Orient Gold 2007 Gold Deposits of the Orient IOCG '07 Iron Oxide Copper-Gold in South America TienShan 2006 Gold Bearing Deposits of Central Asia Nickel 2006 Magmatic Nickel Sulphide Deposits Bushveld 2006 Geology & Mineralisation of the Bushveld Complex IOCG '05 Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits in Australia Northern Australia '05 Base Metal Mines of Northern Australia Epithermal Gold 2005 Epithermal Gold Deposits of the Western Pacific Super Porphyry 2003-04 Super Porphyry Copper/Gold Deposits of the World Iron 2002-03 Key Iron Deposits of the World Eldorado 2001 The New World Gold & IOCG Deposits of South America Africa-B 2001 Mineral Deposits of Southern & Central Africa FeOx 2000 Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits Africa 2000 Gold Deposits of East & West Africa Nickel 2000 Major World Nickel Deposits OzMines '99 Major Australian Base Metal Mines NewGold '99 New Australian Gold Discoveries & Mines Pacific Gold '99 Major Gold Deposits of the Western Pacific OzTour '99 Australian Base Metal & Gold Deposits EpiGold '98 Evaluation of Epithermal Gold Deposits in the Tropics Zinc '98 Zinc deposits of Europe and North America Cordillera '98 Copper & gold in the Cordillera of the Americas OzGold '97 Australian Gold Deposits Archaean Gold '97 Archaean Gold in North America & Africa Archipelago '97 Copper & gold in the Southeast Asian Archipelago

These tours were incomparable learning experiences,   global in scope,   visiting the world's classic ore deposits The tour rationale was:   The best way to learn about ore deposits, is to visit a selection of the best examples, wherever they may be in the world, hit the rocks and talk to the experienced geologists who work on, and explore around, them.

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