On April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, a catastrophic failure on the Deepwater Horizon platform resulted in a massive oil spill considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger »
One our my favorite artists, Worakyls, will be performing at the Zenith Toulouse Metropole, Toulouse France, Sunday November 10, 2019. The event opens with Worakyls typical electronic music and finishes with his fusion classic-electronic- jazz orchestra. You are invited. Go here to book We will be spending a few days »
As our nearest star, Sol, enters the quietest solar minimum in more than a century its time to take regular look at its activity, courtesy of USAF and NASA and otherwise as credited. View Solar Observer here »
A new book from Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka addresses this very issue. In a complex and challenging book, the authors discuss the origins of consciousness from an evolutionary perspective. They postulate that capability to learn was the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness and it occurred »
“In 1923, seven men who had made it to the top of the financial success pyramid met together at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago. Collectively, they controlled more wealth than the entire United States Treasury, and for years the media had held them up as examples of success. Who were »
Sonoro Energy Ltd (TSXV: SNV) with it local partner PT Menara Global Energi has won the Selat Panjang PSC in the 2019 Conventional Bid Round in Indonesia. Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arcandra Tahar announced the winner of 2019 Phase I Oil and Gas Working Area Offers with »
Fertility Indicators of Magmaticand Hydrothermal Systems 8:30am – 1:00pm, Monday 27th of May 2019Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC)26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151 Discovery of new deposits is costly and challenging, particularly when exploration is now moving under cover and being more predictive can be the immediate key to »
Solstad Offshore ASA has been awarded a contract by Ophir Thailand (Bualuang) Limited to perform the offshore installation of the Bualuang Charlie wellhead platform structure as part of the Bualuang Phase 4B Development Project. The Charlie platform will have 12 slots at full production will increase field production to 11,000 »
A riveting video from David Kipping at Astronomy Columbia. Is there life out there? We simply have no idea as it’s not possible to extrapolate from a single data point – Earth. It could well be that the creation of life is very difficult and we are the only example »
Steve Jobs was and remains a most enigmatic individual, driven by product excellence, focused to an obsessive degree but with little empathy for those around him. Below is a is an interesting paper on Jobs, by Bert McBrayer, within the framework of the Big 5 Personality traits. Bert concludes that »
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft after a 2 billion km journey, has reached and is now in orbit around asteroid Bennu. See previous post. Below is a series of images taken by OSIRIS-REx at a distance of about 80 km (50 mi.) The images constitute one full revolution of the asteroid. The spacecraft is now »
After much lobbying APPEA has announced the Western Australian Government’s decision to lift the hydraulic fracturing moratorium on existing onshore gas projects. How many studies need to be done to confirm that fracking kilometres beneath the surface of the planet has no material impact on the surface or the near surface »
On December 1st, Spaceflight will launch its SSO-A satellite ride share on a Falcon 9 B1046 booster from Vandenberg on the west coast of the USA. SSO-A integrates 63 satellites into a single stack – in a single launch. The ability to deploy this many satellites into low earth orbit makes launching »
The Storyline The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled nearby a creek. It is their leader Kelab’s responsibility to be the keeper of the group’s holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, »
Hungarian National Asset Management Inc., (“MNV”) has announced the public tender for the Recsk Deposit and assets in Hungary. The Recsk Cu-Au-Pb-Zn-Ag-Mo property in Hungary hosts arguably one of the largest and highest-grade undeveloped copper-gold porphyry and skarn systems in Europe. With 240,000 metres of drilling, two 8 metre internal »
An EGRU conference with a session in honour of Dr Roger Taylor 24 – 28 June 2019 Tinaroo Lake Resort Tinaroo, Atherton Tablelands, tropical north Queensland, Australia The conference will address advances and breakthroughs in understanding the setting, genesis and characteristics of magmatic systems related to Sn-W-Critical Metal mineralisation, including Rare »
A recent paper in Science authored Ilya Bobrovskiy, Janet Hope and colleagues from ANU, the Russian Academy and European institutions has remarkably (and convincingly) discovered molecules of fat in Dickinsonia, a marine genus of the Ediacaran biota. This has confirmed that the 558 million year old Dickinsonia is the earliest animal in the geological record and maybe »
Natural Resource Governance Institute has issued a report on revenues received from listed mining companies in Ghana. As many who have done the cashflow analysis have long known that a free carried interest, funded out of cashflow is a less than effective tool for garnering rent from resource projects. Projects »
Jupiter as seen from the Juno spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gabriel Fiset A complex dynamo inferred from the hemispheric dichotomy of Jupiter’s magnetic field The Juno spacecraft, which is in a polar orbit around Jupiter, is providing direct measurements of the planet’s magnetic field close to its surface. A recent analysis of observations »
Just received the above titled book from Elsevier for review. I had the great pleasure of spending some time in the field in Myanmar with Andrew Mitchell in 2017 and this important contribution by him is a remarkable testament to his life’s work. He has enormous knowledge of the geology »
This spectacular image of Dione and Saturn’s rings is simply fantastic. Dione is a small moon with a diameter of 1,120 km, surface gravity of 0.232 m/S2 and semi-major axis similar to that of Earth’s moon. Its orbital period is only 2.7 days however, 10% of our moon, reflecting the »
To the Daily Alta California, it was “the great discovery of the age”. After emerging from the underground at the California Mine on the Comstock Lode Dan de Quille called it “the richest mineral discovery in the world’s history” and he named it The Big Bonanza. In a field »
We all love muffins, but they are not the healthiest of snacks. Here is an alternative, which is free of flour, refined sugars and added oils. For those that believe they are gluten intolerant these contain no wheat flour! This is a genuinely healthy alternative, high in fibre and essential »
To understand Trump (and a sizeable portion of the entrepreneur class) you only need one photograph and this is the one. His level of trait Agreeableness is exceedingly low. Sub traits Compassion and Politeness are without question in the zero percentile. What does that mean? If there were 100 people »
Dr Roger Taylor is presenting three economic geology short courses in Melbourne in August. Strongly recommended. Field Assessment of Gossans and Leached Cappings, 28th August Coping With Skarns and Their Relationship to Carbonate Replacement Deposits, 29th – 30th August Ore Textures and Breccias, 31st August »
Sonoro Energy acquired promising oil and gas acreage from Stockbridge Group in 2016 and set about drilling what proved to be a discovery. The company commenced drilling the LG-1 Updip appraisal well in October 2017, with site operations lasting 50 days, in part due to difficult drilling conditions and numerous »
200 AMU macromolecular organics detected in plumes on Enceladus Cassini was intentionally crashed into the atmosphere of Saturn late in 2016, to avoid contamination of any of the moons of the planet. While that ended data collection from Saturn and its moons, data analysis continues to produce surprises. Saturn’s moon »
A new business card No contacts Nothing on the reverse side But the comment “It’s a QRCode” »
Remarkably the ESA Swarm satellite constellation data has yielded evidence of a very weak but not unsurprising magnetic field generated by the movement of planetary scale oceanic currents. The signal strength is however exceedingly weak and being 20,000 times less than the lithospheric signature took four years of data to »
ESA has just released the most detail magnetic data on the lithosphere from its Swarm three satellite constellation. Launched on 22 November 2013, Swarm is the fourth in a series of pioneering Earth Explorer research missions, following on from GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat. Is also ESA’s first constellation of satellites to advance »
