The Stavely Project is a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of Victoria. During 2014 fourteen pre-competitive stratigraphic drill holes were completed in the prospective Stavely region in western Victoria in order to better understand subsurface geology and its potential for a variety of mineral systems. The Stavely region hosts several belts of poorly-exposed Cambrian volcanic and intrusive rocks, visible largely only in aeromagnetic data, which have similarities to those found in modern subduction-related tectonic settings. Mineralisation associated with porphyry Cu-Au and volcanic-hosted massive sulphide mineral systems is known where these rocks are exposed around Mount Stavely and the Black Range. However, despite a history of mineral exploration dating back to the late 1960s, significant economic deposits are yet to be discovered, and the Stavely region remains a greenfields terrane. Given the geological setting and known mineral potential, opportunity exists for the discovery of large mineral systems beneath extensive, but relatively thin, younger cover. The Stavely Project aims to provide the framework for discovery in the Stavely region primarily through the acquisition and delivery of pre-competitive geoscientific data."--Online abstract.
Critical minerals are pivotal to human society in industrialised and developing economies. Many critical minerals are irreplaceable inputs for technological and industrial advancements, especially renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, rechargeable batteries, consumer electronics, telecommunications, specialty alloys, and defence technologies. Critical minerals are metals, non-metals and mineral compounds that are economically important and are also subject to high risks of supply ..."--Online abstract.
This data release is part of the Federal Government's Exploring for the Future program undertake by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with the Northern Territory Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Queensland. It is the second staged release of data from the North Australian Geochemical Survey which sampled catchment outlet sediments at 780 sites (including duplicates) for geochemical analysis ..."--Online abstract.
Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Australia's nickel resources: known and undiscovered -- 1.2. Rationale and aims: a national assessment of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineral potential -- 1.3. Foundation datasets -- 1.4. Digital information products -- 2. Formation of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore deposits -- 2.1. Model of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore-forming systems -- 2.2. Fundamental processes in Ni-Cu-PGE ore formation -- 3. Prospectivity analysis method -- 3.1. Mineral systems framework -- 3.2. Prospectivity modelling approach and GIS methods -- 3.3. Theoretical and mappable criteria and weightings -- 4. Tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineral systems -- 4.1. Mineral system component: energy sources -- 4.2. Mineral system component: lithospheric architecture -- 4.3. Mineral system component: sources of ore metals - Ni, Cu, PGE --4.4. Mineral system component: Ore depositional gradients -- 5. Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineral potential of Australia: Results -- 5.1. Overview of results -- 5.2. Discussion of prospective regions -- 6. Summary and Conclusions -- 6.1. Method and results -- 6.2. Limitations of the mineral potential modelling -- References -- Appendix A. GIS modelling workflow and input datasets -- A.1. GIS modelling workflow -- A.2. Energy sources or drivers of the ore forming system -- A.3. Lithospheric architecture -- A.4. Sources of ore metals: Ni, Cu, PGE -- A.5. Ore depositional gradients -- A.6. Final Result -- A.7 References -- Appendix B. Workflow for geochemical datasets -- B.1. Workflow to create geochemical input layers -- B.2. References -- Appendix C. Selection of Ni geochemical data -- Method of selection of Ni-enriched and Ni-depleted geochemical analyses -- C.1. Reference.
The Stavely Project is a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of Victoria. During 2014, fourteen pre-competitive stratigraphic drill holes were completed in the prospective Stavely region in western Victoria in order to better understand subsurface geology and its potential for a variety of mineral systems. Prior to drilling, existing airborne magnetic data were analysed and new refraction seismic, reflection seismic and gravity data were acquired as part of a pre-drilling geophysical acquisition program. The aim of this geophysical program was to provide cover thickness estimates at the drill site locations prior to the drilling program commencing, in order to reduce the geological and financial risk. Passive seismic data were acquired post-drilling for benchmarking with the other methods against the completed drilling in order to assess a potential tool kit of geophysical methods for the explorer to predict reliably the cover thickness at the tenement scale."--Online abstract.
It is generally accepted that the near surface search space for mineral deposits in Australia and elsewhere in the world has been well explored and the frontier of exploration lies beneath post-mineralisation cover. The Exploring for the Future program aims to unlock this new search space in northern Australia and parts of southern Australia by reducing the technical risk of mineral exploration through the provision of innovative pre-competitive data and information. The first step to de-risk undercover exploration is to simply define the depth to prospective rocks as cover-thickness places first order constraints on the economic search space. With this aim in mind we present a preliminary model of the depth to pre-Neoproterozoic rocks between Tennant Creek and Mt Isa, an area of focused integrated studies of the Exploring for the Future program. This work aims to compliment recent and ongoing mineral potential assessments in this region, which suggest covered pre-Neoproterozoic rocks are prospective for iron oxide-copper-gold and sediment hosted base metal mineral deposits ... "--Online abstract
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