34th International Geological Congress (IGC): AUSTRALIA 2012

QLD-D7A Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
One Day Pre Trip: Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts and finishes: Selected Brisbane Congress hotels
Numbers limited to 45
Cost: $130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments
Trip description: Visit a number of sites supplying clay and shale for making clay bricks, bentonite
and palygorskite from lake deposits underlying Cenozoic basalt, and also the
Triassic-Jurassic Helidon Sandstone used for many famous Queensland buildings.
Highlights: Garden City of Toowoomba
Trip Leader: Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd
QLD-D7B Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
One Day Post Trip: Saturday 11 August 2012
Starts and finishes: Selected Brisbane Congress hotels
Numbers limited to 45
Cost: $130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments
Trip description: Visit a number of sites supplying clay and shale for making clay bricks, bentonite
and palygorskite from lake deposits underlying Cenozoic basalt, and also the
Triassic-Jurassic Helidon Sandstone used for many famous Queensland buildings.
Highlights: Garden City of Toowoomba
Trip Leader: Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd
QLD-D8A Sunshine Coast Construction Materials
One Day Pre Trip: Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts and finishes: Selected Brisbane Congress hotels
Numbers limited to 45
Cost: $130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments
Trip description: Field trip to the scenic Sunshine Coast inspecting construction materials.
Quarries supply major deposits of coastal/dune and riverine sand and also from
Carboniferous-Permian greenstones, hornfelsed carboniferous sediments, and
oligocene trachytes, as well as large quarries of Triassic rhyolites and andesites
Highlights: Scenery of the Sunshine Coast
Trip Leader: Mr John Siemon, J.E. Siemon Pty Ltd, and Mr Kyle Waye, Holcim (Australia) Pty Ltd
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