This book aims to help you to extract maximum value from aeromagnetic survey data. It shows how to integrate these data with geological data to build an interpretation that matches the objectives of your project. The book is as much for geologists as geophysicists and is written by two consulting geoscientists who deal with complex geophysical and geological interpretation problems in their day-to-day work.

It is with great pleasure that I present to you the 2013 Global Gold Mine & Deposit Ranking. This is now our third year of compiling the database which is comprised of 580 Mines and Deposits consisting of over 1 million ounces of in-situ resources in all categories. For more information on our methodology please read our previous reports from 2011 and 2012. <...>

Following on the success of last year’s report we have decided to make the ranking of the world’s gold deposits an annual endeavor highlighting trends in future mine supply, depletion, discoveries, and in-situ grades.

As far as we know, there has not been a similar effort to compile a comprehensive database of the world’s gold mines and deposits. Nevertheless, we rose to the laborious challenge knowing the industry reliance on risk capital via public markets presented an opportunity to data mine regulatory filings which would result in a high quality database. <...>

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which was formed in December 1991 upon the dissolution of the former Soviet Union (FSU), includes the former republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus (Byelorussia), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. The FSU was for many decades, until the end of the 1980s, the second-largest gold producer in the world after South Africa. Peak gold production in the FSU of about 290 t was reached in 1979, with a subsequent decline to about 220-230 t by the early 1990s.

Copper in the Age of AI analyzes the global outlook for copper supply and demand through 2040, focusing on copper’s essential role in meeting the growing requirements of electrification, digitalization, and technologies such as AI, data centers, electric vehicles, and defense. It represents the collaboration of groups across S&P Global. The analysis and metrics developed during the course of this research represent the independent analysis and views of S&P Global. The study makes no policy recommendations. <...>

The geology of the Iberian Peninsula and its continental shelves is complex and varied despite its relatively small size. With some 590,000 km2 inland (Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic and other small Atlantic and Mediterranean islands) and some additional 200,000 km2 making up the continental shelves, the record exposed spans for nearly the last 600 Ma of Earth’s history. The geological record is not only long but also deep: from surficial to upper mantle, segments are exposed both inland and under the sea.

When we started the edition of this volume, we thought that it could serve as a milestone in South American geomorphology, particularly in those topics concerning long-term landscape evolution. We also hoped that it would make a valuable contribution to the geomorphology of the Southern Hemisphere and, even perhaps, to global geomorphology. We do not know if our goals have been fulfilled, but we have tried our best. Firstly, we must express our deepest gratitude to a large group of distinguished colleagues from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Without their participation and much appreciated efforts, our task would have been impossible.

Gondwana Five is not a large or pretentious volume because our resources are not large and we are too aware of our limitations to have any pretensions. The editors are very grateful to those many authors who cheerfully and gracefully accepted cuts in their scripts, sometimes outright mutilation, in order to meet space restrictions. We hope that the volume fairly represents the proceedings of the Fifth Gondwana Symposium and that the papers still contain enough information to be useful.