The unit provides geoscience skills to help discover the resources for our everyday needs. Most things we use in everyday life require resources. Think mobile phone, cars, fridges, cutlery, crockery and glassware to name a few. Resources represent the concentration of elements into small domains within the Earth. It is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, the concentration processes often leave broad footprints. How minerals concentrate into resources and how to recognise their halos has been the focus of specialised research at the University of Tasmania for over 25 years. Our experts teach into this unit which encompasses modern mineral exploration techniques and applying them to particular ore deposit types. An emphasis is placed on the integration of a range of geological, geochemical and geophysical data sets to define targets for ore discovery. Practical experience is guided through a number of mineral exploration exercises culminating in a real-world-data exploration targeting task.

This unit is designed to bring students' knowledge of these topics up to graduate level, adequate for school teaching and for continuation into 4^thyear (Honours), which is now recognised as the minimum professional level of training. This course is required for undertaking Honours in Economic Geology and desirable for Honours in General Geology, Environmental Geology, Marine Geoscience and Geophysics.