Our Events
Our Speakers
1. AfricaArray - Structure & Evolution of the African Plate
Ray Durrheim
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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