RETROSPECTIVE - The Australian Mineral Foundation (AMF) was established in 1972 by the minerals and petroleum industries as a not for profit organisation to manage, co-ordinate and provide members with high quality technical information and professional development.
The AMF, which was based in Adelaide, South Australia, satisfied its charter to the resource sector in Australia and internationally, both physically and on-line through:
A specialist library and document/data delivery service,
Managing AESIS - the national geoscience database,
Australia's largest resource industry technical bookshop,
Quality professional development courses & conferences,
International Study Tours to the world's classic ore deposits,
The Data Metallogenica world ore deposit sample collection.
The membership of AMF included the majority of exploration, mining and petroleum companies in Australia as well as a number of the major mining houses operating around the globe, plus all Australian Commonwealth and State Geological Surveys & most universities.
However, as a result of the drastic decline in the number of companies and professionals within the mining industry, and exploration in particular, it became un-economic for the Foundation to continue to operate and on 17 December 2001 the AMF as such ceased operations, although some of its key functions will continue under other guises.
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CONTINUATION of SERVICES - Between 1997 and 2001 Porter GeoConsultancy Pty Ltd (PGC) developed, organised and managed a series of fifteen International Study Tours to over 200 of the world's classic ore deposits on all continents and presented these in association with the AMF via a series of joint venture agreements.
Following the AMF's liquidation, PGC has continued the International Study Tour series, in its own right.
In addition, PGC developed and edited a two volume monograph entitled "Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits - A Global Perspective". The second volume, which was released in May 2002, was published by PGC Publishing, a division of PGC, while the copyright to the first volume was assigned to PGC Publishing to produce a second edition now available for purchase.
Both of these volumes are available for immediate despatch from the on-line PGC Publishing Bookshop
For more information, both historic and continuing, click on:
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