The Summer Symposium was held on 1st December 2017 at the Geological Department at the University of Zimbabwe.  The event was well supported with some 60 members in attendance.

 

The program was as follows and abstracts can be uploaded from the list below:

 

Maideyi Meck -  Geological Society Chair:- Welcome & Official Opening

 

Farai Mutondoro:- Transparency in the Mining Sector: Addressing corruption risks and vulnerabilities in the awarding of mining claims in Zimbabwe

 

Branko Corner:- Southern Africa under cover – an integrated geophysical and geological interpretation

 

Tony Martin:- Durchbewegung textures, subterranean sedimentation and the link to mineralisation in the Lufilian Copperbelt

 

Mark Tsomondo:- Transtensional tectonics for the 2575Ma Great Dyke and diachronous Chilimanzi suite plutonism: the end of Macgregor's  vertical tectonics

 

Peter Hildebrand:- The Xade Complex and its place in the Umkondo igneous event

 

Tim Broderick:- From Archosaurs to Dinosaurs - the 2017 Expeditions

 

Roger Tyler:- Arcadia Lithium Project

 

Ellah Muchemwa:- Mining in the Sand Dunes of Richards Bay, South Africa

 

Jonathan  Nyagumbo:- Gold Processing at Cam and Motor Mine

 

Nevison Chikandiwa:- Challenges Facing Chrome Small Scale Miners

 

Brent Barber:- Renewal of Conventional Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Cabora Bassa Basin in Zimbabwe

 

Tenyears Gumede:- Airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry versus Ground Gravity in the search for mineral deposits

 

Princess Mahari:- Update on Zimbabwe's new Mining Cadastre System

 

Anthony Mamuse:- MSU Faculty of Mining & Mineral Processing Engineering

Tony Martin:- Summary