Episodes

  • Tim Griffin: The challenges of explaining how mining works and why it is so important
    Feb 27 2022

    Tim Griffin reflects on some of his experiences as Director of GSWA.

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    17 mins
  • Tim Griffin: From cyclones to psychopaths
    Feb 20 2022

    Tim Griffin relates some of his more extreme experiences of GSWA field work. 

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    10 mins
  • Tim Griffin: Modern clues to interpreting ancient rocks
    Feb 13 2022

    Former Director of GSWA, Tim Griffin, talks about studying and mapping very young rocks in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, which gave him clues to interpreting some of Western Australia’s oldest rocks, in the Yilgarn, during his early days as a mapping geologist at GSWA.

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    13 mins
  • Paul Morris: The long road to Yagga Yagga - a new relationship with Aboriginal traditional owners
    Feb 6 2022

    Paul Morris talks about of his last regolith sampling programs, which was in fact requested by the traditional owners of that country 

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    20 mins
  • Paul Morris: Perseverance pays off in surveying the remote, rugged Kimberley
    Jan 30 2022

    Paul Morris talks about the challenges and rewards of ambitious regolith sampling programs in the Kimberley region.

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    18 mins
  • Paul Morris: Using fine fraction geochemistry to explore under wind-blown sand
    Jan 23 2022

    Paul Morris talks about tackling the problem of detecting low metal concentrations in wind-blown sand, culminating in dating and geochemical work that had significant implications for gold exploration in areas under sand cover.

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    18 mins
  • Paul Morris: Building relationships with Aboriginal traditional owners through survey work
    Jan 16 2022

    Paul Morris talks about a remote regolith sampling program based out of Kiwikurra, near the Northern Territory border, that helped build new relationships with Aboriginal traditional owners 

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    11 mins
  • Paul Morris: Making the leap from hard rock to regolith geochemistry
    Jan 9 2022

    Paul Morris, retired Chief Geochemist for GSWA, talks about his early days working for the survey when he made the leap from hard rock geochemistry to studying regolith – the unconsolidated surface material covering more than 80% of Western Australia .

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    17 mins