FUTORES II International Conference 2017 | James Cook University | 4 June 2017 | Townsville, Queensland, Australia

FUTORES II (Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability) will be held in tropical Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 4 - 7 June 2017. The conference will address issues related to new understanding in mineral deposits (the David Groves Symposium), new technologies and approaches in exploration (including the challenge of exploration in areas with cover), tectonics and metallogenesis, basins and energy, and future trends in the resources industry. The FUTORES II conference will likely attract 250-350 participants with a similar composition to the inaugural and highly successful FUTORES conference held in 2013: ~60% industry geologists, ~25% academics and ~15% students.

FUTORES II has a great program with many world class speakers, short courses and field trips. EGRU (Economic Geology Research Centre) at James Cook University is proud to organise this event as one of its quadrennial international conferences and we welcome academic colleagues, industry and government geologists, and students to this inspiring and exciting conference.

Speakers for 2017

Pleanary Speakers:
Richard Sillitoe
Dan Wood

Keynote and Invited Speakers:
Richard Goldfarb
Larry Meinert
Doug Kirwin
Noel White
Ross Large
Antonio Arribas
David Cooke
Roric Smith
David Leach
Cornel de Ronde
Jeremy Cook
Steve Cox Roger Skirrow
Yasushi Watanabe
Jeremy Richards
David Huston
Jingwin Mao
Joel Brugger
Vladimir Lisitsin
Steffen Hagemann
Ross Cayley
David Giles
Alan Collins
Richard Lilly
Peter Betts
Steven Micklethwaite
Carsten Laukamp
Annette George
Simon Richards
Jo Whelan
Ravi Anand
John Walshe
Kasia Sobczak
Valeria Bianch
Simon Johnson
Chris Cuff

Sponsors for 2017

Platinum:
Mount Isa Mines

Gold:
SOUTH32