Our Events

Our 15th AfricaArray Scientific Meeting

Our Speakers

1. AfricaArray - Structure & Evolution of the African Plate

Ray Durrheim

Keynote
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AfricaArray - the first 15 years
Seismic imaging of a recent m5.5 earthquake rupture beneath Moab Khotsong gold mine, South Africa

Andy Nyblade

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Shear wave velocity structure of the bushveld complex from a joint inversion of receiver functions and rayleigh wave group velocities

R. Alastair Sloan

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Microseismicity throughout the crust of Southern Malawi: Implications for lithosphere rheology and seismic hazard

Estelle Eric Fosso Teguia M

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Lithospheric domains of the West and Central African rift system based on Terracing and Cluster analysis

Peter Haas

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Gravity gradient inversion reveals variable architecture of African cratons

Fenitra Andriampenomanana

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Seismic anisotropy beneath Uganda and Tanzania from shear wave splitting: corroborating evidence for sublithospheric mantle flow beneath East Africa

2. Geophysical Technique Developments

Gaelle Vanessa NANA

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Exploration of Potential Ore Deposits along the Cameroon Volcanic Line from Gravity and Magnetic Studies

Emmanuel Onyebuchi Onyebueke

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In-mine Seismic Imaging Trials of PGM Deposits in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

3. ICDP Projects

Sarah Stamps

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A New Present-Day Kinematic Model of the East African Rift System from GNSS Geodesy

Hiroshi Ogasawara

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South African gold mines as invaluable laboratory deep underground for geoscience

David Khoza

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Geoscience Mapping for “just energy transition” in south africa

4. Mineral Exploration & Mining

Glen Nwaila

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Data analytics and machine learning in mineral resource exploration and evaluation: uses and challenges

Joshua Pillay

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High-resolution refraction seismics integrated with the electrical resistivity method for the investigation of subsurface cavities

Michael Westgate

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Seismic Constraints on the buried 1.9Ga Trompsburg Complex, South Africa

Moyagabo Kenneth Rapetsoa

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Seismic solutions utilizing existing in-mine infrastructures for mineral exploration: a case study from Maseve Platinum Mine, South Africa

Mpofana Sihoyiya

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RE-PROCESSING OF THE 2D LEGACY SEISMIC DATA FOR IMPROVED STRUCTURAL IMAGING AND GOLD EXPLORATION IN THE SOUTH RAND GOLDFIELD, SOUTH AFRICA

Leon Tolmay

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Advances in Geostatistics that you may not know of and their impact on mining

Thiashen Nadan

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Near-surface geophysical investigation of the Far Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Ndamulelo Mutshafa

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Reprocessing of legacy seismic data for gold exploration: case study from Witwatersrand goldfields, South Africa.

5. Earthquakes & Mining Seismology

Joseph Maritinkole

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Improving Automatic local earthquake detection and phase picking using a deep learning algorithm

Lebogang Madisha

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Seismic ambient noise study in the suburbs of Johannesburg: Revealing patterns in daily human activity, seasonal variations and the effects of the COVID-19 national lockdown

6. Oil & Gas Exploration

Inga Mayipheli

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Physical property analysis and de-noising of the legacy seismic data: Implication for CO2 storage site charecterisation, Zululand basin, South Africa.

Malesela Meshaclick Bopape

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Preliminary evaluation of mapping the Whitehill Formation and Karoo dolerite intrusions in the southeastern Karoo Basin