Registrations are now open for Discovery Day 2025

Discovery Day is an opportunity to hear directly from the Geological Survey of South Australia on our new projects, research, and insights from the last 12 months.

  • 📅 When: Thursday 27 November 2025
  • 📍 Where: Adelaide Convention Centre

Since 2016, Discovery Day has been an integral part of the Geological Survey of South Australia's calendar, and we hope you can join us again this year.

Our theme for 2025

“South Australian Geoscience: Innovation, Insight, and Impact”

The program for this year’s event will be a diverse showcase of new information on the geology and commodity potential of South Australia.

Come, learn, discuss, act.

To register

  • Register now on Humantix to lock in your place! 
    Registrations close Sunday 23 November 2025

Preview the program

Take a look at some of the speakers and a preview of their presentations.

Yanbo Cheng
Yanbo is a Senior Mineral Systems Geoscientist at Geoscience Australia, with extensive experience in mineral systems, regional mineral potential assessment, and economic geology.

He has worked in Australia, Norway, and China, with previous experience as an academic researcher exploration geologist and exploration geologist.

Join Yanbo as he talks through the Delamerian region and its mineral systems.

Claire Wade
Joining our team in 2006, Claire is a Senior Geologist with the GSSA who has been involved in regional geology and mapping projects.

With roles in the Mineral Systems Footprints and Regional Geology teams, Claire has contributed in areas of geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, and geologic evolution in South Australia.

Join Claire as she discusses the Northern Gawler National Drilling Initiative, and recent results from the campaign.

Mitchell Bockmann
Mitchell completed his PhD on “The early Mesoproterozoic tectonic and thermal evolution of the eastern Gawler Craton” at the University of Adelaide and joined the GSSA in 2022.

Mitchell currently works as a Senior Geologist in the Mineral Systems and Resources Team.

Join Mitchell as he discusses Magnetite, and an updated stratigraphic framework for this important iron oxide mineral in South Australia.

Stay updated

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Previous Discovery Day events

Session 1 - Looking ahead: Initiatives and commodities

Welcome to Country
Cliffy Wilson, Kuma Kaaru

Opening address
Paul Heithersay, Department for Energy and Mining

Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity Initiative, Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of South Australia working together
Karol Czarnota, Geoscience Australia

GSSA Director’s 2024 highlights
Bronwyn Camac, Department for Energy and Mining

Magnesium and Manganese opportunities in South Australia for facilitating the increasing global Critical Minerals demand
Carmen Krapf, Department for Energy and Mining

An update on natural hydrogen exploration in South Australia
Chris Cubitt, Department for Energy and Mining

Session 2 - The sedimentary search space

Linking South Australia’s geology - fostering new workflows through digital report data (Officer Basin Case Study)
Sam Connell, Department for Energy and Mining

Paleovalleys and sedimentary characteristics of the northwestern Gawler Craton
Baohong Hou, Department for Energy and Mining

A new turbidite play in the Otway Basin - The value of revisiting the rocks
Sharon Tiainen, Department for Energy and Mining

Play mapping workflow; a practical example from the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia
Paul Strong, Department for Energy and Mining

Stack ‘em, hack ‘em and smack ‘em: Seismic stories of basins building an orogen
Tom Wise, Department for Energy and Mining

Narrowing the search space: A wrap up of the sedimentary Copper project
Adrian Fabris, Department for Energy and Mining

Session 3 - Core, copper and complexities

Keynote: A Beautiful Science
Lee Harrop

Unravelling complex basement geology via SADM: an example from the Mount Woods Domain, Gawler Craton
Rashed Abdullah, Department for Energy and Mining

Just how relevant is the IOCG model to the Curnamona Province?
Tobias Schlegel, CSIRO

Where are South Australia’s Carbonatites?
Mitchell Bockmann, Department for Energy and Mining

Northern Gawler National Drilling Initiative
Claire Wade, Department for Energy and Mining

Session 4 - Making time and space for mineral systems

Refining Uranium exploration models with field data
Steve Hore, Department for Energy and Mining

HyLogger Hy-lights 2024
Alicia Caruso, Department for Energy and Mining

Geochronology of the Middleback Range metasediments and implications for the Hutchison Group stratigraphy
Mario Werner, Department for Energy and Mining

Aeromagnetic Character and Kinematics of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, Eastern Nuyts Domain
Frank Rarity, Department for Energy and Mining

Polymetamorphism and gold (re)mobilisation in the central-western Gawler Craton
Alex Van Leeuwen, Department for Energy and Mining

Watch the Discovery Day presentations from 2023

Watch the Discovery Day presentations from 2022