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📣 Call for Abstracts! SEMACRET is promoting a session at hashtag #EGU25 dedicated to INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN MINERAL EXPLORATION: FROM ORE FORMING PROCESSES TO NEW EXPLORATION METHODS Submission deadline is January 15th, come and join us! Session description (https://lnkd.in/dy78JWev) Critical raw materials are fundamental to supply industrial value chains, strategic sectors and to support the rapidly increasing demand for metals associated with the energy transition. Mineral exploration usually relies on drilling geophysical and, to a lesser degree, geochemical anomalies to identify and delineate ore deposits. This approach results in significant environmental impact and thus high exploration costs. Increasing deposit discovery rates requires a continuous effort to improve our understanding of ore formation processes. Such understanding is fundamental to increase the efficiency of exploration methods and minimize their environmental and social impacts. In this session we invite the submission of studies that provide advances in the study of mineral deposits of magmatic, hydrothermal or sedimentary origin, as well as application of mineral exploration techniques. We particularly welcome those studies that have employed holistic, knowledge-driven methods such as the Mineral System Approach and that envisage mineral deposits as the successful interplay between a source, a pathway and a sink for metals in difference geological and geodynamic contexts. We further welcome studies that provide advancements in tracing the footprints and fingerprints of mineral deposits, such as geochemical and geophysical methods that enable translating the source-pathway-sink into efficient exploration criteria, or their integration in prospectivity models. https://lnkd.in/dy78JWev

The Geocongress 2025 is hosted by the Geological Society of South Africa and the University of Free State. Call for abstracts is now open and keynote speakers announced. Among these is our science team member John Carranza, that will be sharing his expertise on Artificial Intelligence in Mineral Exploration https://lnkd.in/ddfp8S86

Tomorrow we will have a seminar devoted to Mineral Prospectively Modelling by our colleague Malcom Aranha that is currently a visiting scientist at Lisbon University, don't miss a great opportunity to hear the most recent developments and techniques and some on-going study cases from our project!

Our Lisbon team will be at the European Researchers Night, the largest science celebration in the year bringing together scientists and society! If you here, join us at Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Centro Ciência Viva! Entrance is free.  #EuropeanResearchersNight

Did you know you can find all conference abstracts and manuscripts our team has produced in our webpage? Check it out! https://lnkd.in/d4nXq9PC

🚨 New paper alert!! This work exploits the close spatiotemporal association of komatiites from the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in Lapland, Finland (Paleoproterozoic- 2.05 Ga) to sulfur (S)-rich country rocks to assess their potential as source rocks for Cu-Ni(-PGE) deposits. Our scientists combined new data, with literature databases to perform thermodynamic modelling of the parental melts, degree of partial melting and crystal fractionation paths showing that komatiitic parental melts can form either Ni-rich or Cu-rich sulfide melts, depending on the initial Ni and S content of the parental melt. https://lnkd.in/d4CP5wAS

Time flies and we have now hit the 2 year milestone. Our semestral meeting was hosted by our Czech partners in the beautiful city of Prague. For 2 days we discussed our achievements, shared knowledge and defined the roadmap to the finish line. Integrating datasets as diverse as surface geochemistry, rock geochemistry, geophysics, at regional and local scales using machine learning and prospectivity mapping is incredibly challenging. For this reason, we break out in specialized workshops where the science teams from various disciplines and reference sites can cross information and have in-depth discussions. Some of these took 2 extra days of our meeting making it for a very busy week! The highlight of this meeting was the possibility to finally visit the Reference site of Ransko, a Variscan (ultra-mafic) intrusion that hosts sulfide mineralization. The relevance of orogenic intrusions for magmatic ore deposits has been on a steady rise and SEMACRET will make important contributions from the study of Ransko and Beja (Portugal), our other Variscan reference site hosting oxide mineralization.

The MineArc Webinar took place last week! Thank you to all speakers and participants for making this a highly engaging event between academia, industry across more than 30 countries!

The MINEARC seminar is approaching! Our presenters representing 20 countries are ready to share knowledge on their research, education mining and and exploration projects. Check the agenda here https://lnkd.in/d_N4RiCB

📢 The registration deadline has been extended to April 8th. Don't miss this opportunity and registry in our webpage https://lnkd.in/dSYwwZYP