Channel Title: Geology Films Channel Description: Geology Films is about the history of the Earth and the scientists whose passion it is to unravel the past. The first series of Geology Films is on the theme of gold - how it was liberated from deep in the Earth's crust, then deposited in quartz veins at higher levels. The first gold films focus on a style of deposit called Orogenic Gold. This is the most common type of deposit found in the Australian state of Victoria. The films are produced by geologist/filmmaker Clive Willman in collaboration with filmmaker Davide Michielin. <video> The Morning Star Mine - Woods Point Description: The Morning Star Mine is a gold mine in Victoria, southeast Australia. Geologist Dr Peter Jackson takes us underground and describes how the gold occurs. See more films about gold at GEOLOGY FILMS Channel http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Gold Bearing Fluids with Prof Stephen Cox: Part 2 Description: In PART2 of Prof. Stephen Cox's interview, he explains how gold-bearing fluids behave as they rise from deep in the crust. See PART 1 at http://youtu.be/co8GGqzCzho and more about gold at http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Gold Bearing Fluids with Prof Stephen Cox: Part 1 Description: Prof. Stephen Cox talks about the origins and chemistry of gold-bearing fluids, and how the fluids are stored in deeply buried rocks. See PART 2 at http://youtu.be/a2iEjXIUJEI and more about gold at http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Islands of Gold in an Ocean of Land - The Macquarie Arc Description: The Macquarie Arc is an ancient Australian volcanic island arc that formed in the southern Pacific Ocean 450 million years ago. The volcanic rocks that formed the islands are now part of the eastern Australia mainland - and are rich in porphyry style gold and copper deposits. Earth scientists explain how they unravelled the complex story of the arc using clues from the rock's geochemistry, and from fossils that lived in coral reefs around the islands. Plate tectonics created the island arc but finally destroyed it by pushing the volcanic rocks, and mineral deposits, onto the eastern Australian seaboard. </video> <video> The Stawell Goldfield Description: The Magdala gold mine is a major underground gold mine at Stawell in western Victoria, southeast Australia. Dr Anthony Morey describes underground exposures of quartz lodes and diamond drill core. Professor Chris Wilson discusses his underground structural analysis and explains the origin of laminated veins. See more films about gold deposits at GEOLOGY FILMS Channel http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Gold, Faults and Fluids Description: International expert Professor Rick Sibson talks about how fluids, faults and earthquakes interact in the crust to form fault-hosted gold deposits. Ken Harris has mined a typical fault-hosted deposit at the Red Robin mine in the Alps of southeast Australia. See more films about gold at http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> The Metamorphic Gold Model - The New Zealand Story Description: Dr Iain Pitcairn talks about his research into the origin of gold deposits in New Zealand's South Island. Iain analysed hundreds of samples from the Otago Schists to demonstrate that gold deposits were derived from fluids that formed during metamorphism of the parent rocks. This is the essence of the metamorphic gold model that is used to explain the origin of orogenic gold deposits. See more films about gold deposits at GEOLOGY FILMS Channel http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Orogenic Gold Deposits Description: Dr Richard Goldfarb is a world expert on Orogenic Gold Deposits. He explains how orogenic gold formed during plate tectonic collisions and especially during continental growth. See more films about gold deposits at GEOLOGY FILMS Channel http://goo.gl/0mw8Z4 </video> <video> Neville Pilven - Landscape Artist Description: Artist Neville Pilven is fascinated by the geological formations and wide landscapes of the Wimmera district in western Victoria and the desert country in central Australia. </video>

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Geology Films is about the history of the Earth and the scientists whose passion it is to unravel the past.
The first series of Geology Films is on the theme of gold - how it was liberated from deep in the Earth's crust, then deposited in quartz veins at higher levels. The first gold films focus on a style of deposit called Orogenic Gold. This is the most common type of deposit found in the Australian state of Victoria. The films are produced by geologist/filmmaker Clive Willman in collaboration with filmmaker Davide Michielin.

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