Southern Gold adds geology experience through appointing South Korean-based exploration manager
New exploration manager Robert Smillie will be based in South Korea and his appointment is part of an initiative to get more in-country technical expertise on the ground to increase project generation and expand the drill pipeline. Robert Smillie’s career includes significant epithermal gold exploration experience, particularly in South Korea.
Southern Gold Limited (ASX:SAU) (FRA:UH4) has boosted its exploration capabilities in South Korea by appointing Robert Smillie, an experienced geoscientist, as exploration manager.
Smillie’s career, which spans more than three decades, includes significant epithermal gold exploration experience, particularly in South Korea.
Nuclear Expeditions and Communist Plots: Inside the Secret Government Hunt for Uranium in Fiordland
There was a secret government expedition to Fiordland in 1944 to search for uranium for nuclear weaponry. I went down a rabbit-hole of archives, obituaries, and letters that took me from Fiordland, to Nigeria, to Norway to find answers to the questions I had.
I was reading an article from half a century ago when I came across the shocking story of a secret expedition for uranium. The piece was from a 1971 issue of Salient (Vic’s student magazine) and was about US military involvement in New Zealand. The paragraph is short and near the end of the article:
How the Whanganui Basin reveals region s geological history
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Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
The many layers of sediment laid down in the Whanganui Basin record three to four million years of geological history, attracting fossickers and fossil hunters alike, Emeritus scientist Dr Hamish Campbell tells Laurel Stowell. Dr Hamish Campbell is speaking to a group of about 30 who are looking west from the top of Whanganui s Durie Hill. I hope you like that you are sitting on top of a pile of very young sediments, he says.
It s a field trip organised by Whanganui Regional Museum and Campbell s talk the previous night drew 153 to the museum lecture theatre.
Museum Notebook: Sir Charles Fleming - Whanganui s groundbreaking scientist
24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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The Charles Fleming Medal is awarded, along with a cash prize, once every three years. Photo / Royal Society of New Zealand.
The Charles Fleming Medal is awarded, along with a cash prize, once every three years. Photo / Royal Society of New Zealand.
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Keith Beautrais
Charles Fleming excelled across the spectrum of natural sciences. His selective collecting of shells and birds, and his discoveries in geology and ecology, made him one of New Zealand s last old school naturalists.
In Whanganui, his fieldwork brought groundbreaking understanding of how to interpret our region s geology.
These Are The Penguins That Don t Live In The Cold Shutterstock
By Debra Kelly/Jan. 19, 2021 9:37 am EDT
Some animals are awe-inspiring, some make us want to cuddle them endlessly, and some are just inherently funny. Penguins are definitely the latter they re flightless little birds who look like they re permanently dressed up for a night on the town, even though they re most famous for living in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
Antarctica isn t just cold, it s the kind of cold that makes your insides freeze as fast as your outsides. Aurora Expeditions says the average temperature across the continent which is also one of the driest and windiest places on the planet is a terrifying -70 degrees Fahrenheit. In the winter months, it gets down to -130 degrees Fahrenheit, and the summer maxes out at a not-so-balmy 46 degrees Fahrenheit.