The Bachelor of Geology at James Cook
University is really hands-on and it's
fun. The practicals are fun. You get to
see all the different minerals, the
different rocks and learn about them. I
really like being out in the field
because I get to see the rocks. I get to
see how they look like in the real
environment. Yeah, my dad worked in
overseas mining companies before so I
lived in Ghana, Indonesia and Mongolia. And
back in Ghana it was a gold mine deposit.
I always wondered how was the gold
concentrated into one area, so that's
what got me into Geology. One of the
highlights of studying the Bachelor of
Geology at James Cook University is the
field trips.
In our third year mapping field trip we
get to see lots of different rocks,
minerals and structures. And we get to
learn how to map as a Geologist.
Geology is important, especially in mining,
because if we've done enough research
and we do it right then we can mine it
environmentally. I enjoy geology so much
to the point that I really want to know
all the processes and how gold
deposits form and that is how I got into
a Master of Philosophy at James Cook
University. The main aim of my project is
to determine the physico-chemical of the
mineralisation fluid. Fluid inclusion is
a cavity in a mineral that may contain
one or two phases, such as liquid, gas or
solid and these fluids are trapped in a
rock and it preserves the physico-
chemical condition of the environment
when the rock was trapped.
So for mining fluid inclusion is
important because it can help the mine
to focus on finding the right rocks in
the area rather than just drilling
randomly. It's the methodology of just
trying to find out where the fluid
inclusions are or what are they made out of that
excites me. I always wanted to do geology
because I can work anywhere. I can work
for the government, mining companies and
can always go back to do research later
on. At first I was focused on one of the
rock types before. One of the three. You
know, the metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary
and by learning all the different rock
types at JCU it just got me going,
which makes me love geology more.
