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University of Tasmania
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Ore Deposit Petrology | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Ore Deposit Petrology | Mineral Processing/Beneficiation | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Exploration Geochemistry | Electromagnetism | Agroforestry | Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Earth sciences | Concentrating processes of other base metal ores | First stage treatment of ores and minerals | Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Hardwood plantations | Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
Pyrite and Pyrrhotite Textures and Composition in Sediments, Laminated Quartz Veins, and Reefs at Bendigo Gold Mine, Australia: Insights for Ore Genesis
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 2011
The metamorphic sole of the western Tasmanian ophiolite: New insights into the Cambrian tectonic setting of the Gondwana Pacific margin
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Cambrian metamorphic complexes in Tasmania: tectonic implications
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2000
In situ location and U‐Pb dating of small zircon grains in igneous rocks using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–quadrupole mass spectrometry
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 05-04-2011
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003405
Characterising chalcopyrite liberation and flotation potential: examples from an IOCG deposit
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2011
Proterozoic metamorphism in Tasmania: Implications for tectonic reconstructions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2008
Tectonic implications of Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic igneous rock associations in western Tasmania
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1992
Metamorphic rocks from the southern margin of Tasmania and their tectonic significance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1997
Prediction of acid rock drainage from automated mineralogy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Late Mesozoic strike-slip faulting in Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-04-2015
Authigenic monazite and detrital zircon dating from the Proterozoic Rocky Cape Group, Tasmania: Links to the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, North America
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Arc-oblique fault systems: their role in the Cenozoic structural evolution and metallogenesis of the Andes of central Chile
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
Fluid chemistry, structural setting, and emplacement history of the Rosario Cu-Mo porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au epithermal veins, Collahuasi district, northern Chile
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 08-2005
Asian and South-western Pacific continental terranes derived from Gondwana, and their biogeographic significance
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 1991
DOI: 10.1071/SB9910013
Abstract: The recent recognition of numerous small geological terranes in the Indo-Pacific region has revolutionised our understanding of geological and biogeographic processes. Most of these terranes rifted from Gondwana. The Shan-Thai terrane rifted from Australia in the Permian and collided with Indo-China in the Triassic. Parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan may have rifted from Australia in the Cretaceous and carried an angiosperm flora north. Other terranes, now dispersed in South-East Asia and in the Pacific were, at various times in the Cenozoic, part of the Australian continent. Faunal and floral mobilism to Fiji via the Solomons and Vanuatu was probably not difficult up to the late Miocene.
The structure and metamorphism of the Red Point Metamorphic Complex—A newly discovered high-pressure metamorphic complex from the south coast of Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-11-2015
Provenance of lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in Tasmania and Waratah Bay, southern Victoria: constraints from detrital zircon hafnium isotopes and trace-element geochemistry
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2022
Predictive models of mineralogy from whole-rock assay data: Case study from the Productora Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Chile
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 12-2019
DOI: 10.5382/ECONGEO.2019.4650
Abstract: Mineralogy is a fundamental characteristic of a given rock mass throughout the mining value chain. Understanding bulk mineralogy is critical when making predictions on processing performance. However, current methods for estimating complex bulk mineralogy are typically slow and expensive. Whole-rock geochemical data can be utilized to estimate bulk mineralogy using a combination of ternary diagrams and bivariate plots to classify alteration assemblages (alteration mapping), a qualitative approach, or through calculated mineralogy, a predictive quantitative approach. Both these techniques were tested using a data set of multielement geochemistry and mineralogy measured by semiquantitative X-ray diffraction data from the Productora Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Chile. Using geochemistry, s les from Productora were classified into populations based on their dominant alteration assemblage, including quartz-rich, Fe oxide, sodic, potassic, muscovite (sericite)- and clay-alteration, and least altered populations. S les were also classified by their dominant sulfide mineralogy. Results indicate that alteration mapping through a range of graphical plots provides a rapid and simple appraisal of dominant mineral assemblage, which closely matches the measured mineralogy. In this study, calculated mineralogy using linear programming was also used to generate robust quantitative estimates for major mineral phases, including quartz and total feldspars as well as pyrite, iron oxides, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite, which matched the measured mineralogy data extremely well (R2 values greater than 0.78, low to moderate root mean square error). The results demonstrate that calculated mineralogy can be applied in the mining environment to significantly increase bulk mineralogy data and quantitatively map mineralogical variability. This was useful even though several minerals were challenging to model due to compositional similarities and clays and carbonates could not be predicted accurately.
Geological evolution of the East Tasman Plateau, a continental fragment southeast of Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1997
Development of recovery domains: examples from the Prominent Hill IOCG deposit, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Petrology of the Hili Manu lherzolite, East Timor
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1981
Depositional age and correlation of the Oonah Formation: refining the timing of Neoproterozoic basin formation in Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-02-2018
Some palaeozoic-mesozoic stratigraphic-structural relationships in east timor and their significance in the tectonics of timor
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1977
Gold in the oceans through time
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Crystallization pressure and cooling history of the giles layered igneous complex, central Australia
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-1991
Structural history of the Arthur lineament, Northwest Tasmania: An analysis of critical outcrops
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2002
U–Th–Pb monazite dating and the timing of arc–continent collision in East Timor
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2016
Structural analysis of the accretionary complex in Sirikit Dam area, Uttaradit, Northern Thailand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1993
A tightly folded, gold-rich, massive sulfide deposit: Que River mine, Tasmania
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 07-1988
40Ar/ 39Ar and Re-Os geochronology of porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits and related copper-silver veins in the Collahuasi district, Northern Chile
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 06-2004
Mesoscopic structures produced by Plio-Pleistocene wrench faulting in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1987
Geochemistry and tectonic settings of meta-igneous rocks in the Arthur Lineament and surrounding area, northwest Tasmania
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2003
Development of framboidal pyrite during diagenesis, low-grade regional metamorphism, and hydrothermal alteration
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 12-2009
Structure from photographs of oriented core: Storc
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 07-10-2016
Geological contributions to geometallurgy: a review
Publisher: University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB
Date: 06-10-2017
DOI: 10.12789/GEOCANJ.2017.44.121
Abstract: Geometallurgy is a cross-disciplinary science that addresses the problem of teasing out the features of the rock mass that significantly influence mining and processing. Rocks are complex composite mixtures for which the basic building blocks are grains of minerals. The properties of the minerals, how they are bound together, and many other aspects of rock texture affect the entire mining value chain from exploration, through mining and processing, waste and tailings disposal, to refining and sales. This review presents rock properties (e.g. strength, composition, mineralogy, texture) significant in geometallurgy and ex les of test methods available to measure or predict these properties. Geometallurgical data need to be quantitative and spatially constrained so they can be used in 3D modelling and mine planning. They also need to be obtainable relatively cheaply in order to be abundant enough to provide a statistically valid s le distribution for spatial modelling. Strong communication between different departments along the mining value chain is imperative so that data are produced and transferred in a useable form and duplication is avoided. The ultimate aim is to have 3D models that not only show the grade of valuable elements (or minerals), but also include rock properties that may influence mining and processing, so that decisions concerning mining and processing can be made holistically, i.e. the impacts of rock properties on all the cost centres in the mining process are taken into account. There are significant costs to improving ore deposit knowledge and it is very important to consider the cost-benefit curve when planning the level of geometallurgical effort that is appropriate in in idual deposits.RÉSUMÉLa géométallurgie est une science interdisciplinaire qui s’intéresse aux caractéristiques de la masse rocheuse qui influent de manière significative sur l'exploitation minière et le traitement du minerai. Les roches sont des mélanges composites complexes dont les éléments structurant de base sont des grains de minéraux. Les propriétés des minéraux, la façon dont ils sont liés entre eux, et de nombreux autres aspects de la texture des roches déterminent l'ensemble de la chaîne de valeur minière, de l'exploration à l'extraction à la transformation, à l'élimination des déchets et des résidus, jusqu'au raffinage et à la vente. La présente étude passe en revue les propriétés significatives de la roche (par ex. sa cohésion, sa composition, sa minéralogie, sa texture) en géométallurgie ainsi que des exemples de méthodes d'essai disponibles pour mesurer ou prédire ces propriétés. Les données géométallurgiques doivent être quantitatives et localisées spatialement afin qu'elles puissent être utilisées dans la modélisation 3D et la planification de la mine. Elles doivent également être peu couteuses afin d'être suffisamment nombreuses pour fournir une distribution d'échantillon statistiquement valide pour la modélisation spatiale. Une communication efficace entre les différents segments de la chaîne de valeur minière est impérative pour que les données soient produites et transférées sous une forme utilisable et que les duplications soient évitées. Le but ultime est d'avoir des modèles 3D qui montrent non seulement la qualité des éléments précieux (ou minéraux), mais aussi les propriétés de roche qui déterminent l'exploitation minière et le traitement du minerai, de sorte que les décisions concernant l'exploitation minière et le traitement du minerai peuvent être réalisées de façon holistique, c.-à-d. que l’impact des propriétés de roche sur tous les maillons de la chaîne des coûts du processus minier sont prises en compte. Les coûts d’amélioration des connaissances sur le gisement de minerai étant importants, il faut tenir compte de la courbe coûts-bénéfices lors de la planification du niveau d'investissement géométallurgique approprié pour le gisement considéré.
Detrital zircon ages, provenance and tectonic evolution in the early Paleozoic of Tasmania and Waratah Bay, Victoria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2021
Thrust sheets at Point Hibbs, Tasmania: Palaeontology, sedimentology and structure
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1988
Proterozoic australia-western united states (auswus) fit between laurentia and australia: Reply
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2000
A Statistical Approach to Defining Proterozoic Crustal Provinces and Testing Continental Reconstructions of Australia and Laurentia - SWEAT or AUSWUS?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2002
A North American provenance for Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sandstones in Tasmania?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2001
The Cambrian metamorphic history of Tasmania: The Metapelites
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2012
A North American provenance for Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sandstones in Tasmania?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2001
Tectonic implications of the Nan Suture zone and its relationship to the Sukhothai Fold Belt, Northern Thailand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2000
A new method for obtaining and quantifying the reliability of structural data from axially-oriented drill core using a fabric of known orientation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2004
The history of movement on the Henty Fault Zone, western Tasmania: An analysis of fault striations
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1989
Mineral dust emissions at metalliferous mine sites
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Oxygen fugacity controls in the Earth's upper mantle
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1990
DOI: 10.1038/348437A0
Origin and evolution of Primitive Island arc ankaramites from western epi, Vanuatu
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-1990
Interpretation of 40Ar/39Ar and K/Ar dating evidence from the Aileu Formation, East Timor, Indonesia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1986
Mineral dust properties at the Mt Lyell Cu-Au mine site, Australia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Multiple deformation episodes at Myra Falls volcanic-hosted massive sulfide camp, central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 11-2006
DOI: 10.1139/E06-050
Abstract: A detailed deformation history for central Vancouver Island was determined at Myra Falls volcanic-hosted massive sulfide c with early ductile deformation overprinted by several distinct episodes of brittle deformation. Brittle structures were sub ided into separate groups based on their morphology, geometry, kinematics, and crosscutting relations. The central location of this study provides a link between previous deformation studies in northern and southern Vancouver Island. Late Paleozoic northeast–southwest compression (D 1 ) produced open upright folds with variably developed north-northwest-striking axial planar cleavage zones (S 1 ) and subhorizontal stretching lineations (L 1 ) subparallel to F 1 fold axes. Renewed northeast–southwest compression during the collision of Wrangellia and North America produced a second foliation (S 2 ) in localized shear zones, slightly oblique to the dominant S 1 foliation. These two events are recorded throughout Vancouver Island wherever the basement is exposed. Mid-Cretaceous northeast–southwest compression during D 3 produced early steep conjugate strike-slip faults (D 3a ), overprinted by northeast- and southwest-dipping thrust faults and bedding-parallel shears (D 3b ). D 3 structures have been previously recognized in northern Vancouver Island but not as far south as Myra Falls. North–south extension (D 4 ) produced east, north, and east–southeast-striking normal faults. These faults consistently crosscut earlier D 1 –D 3 structures and reactivate steep D 3a faults. Normal faulting is correlated with the development of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Basin, but no faults of this age have previous been reported from onshore studies. The youngest structures at Myra Falls are large northwest-striking, northeast-dipping thrust faults and steep west- to west-northwest-striking sinistral strike-slip faults formed during the D 5 event. These faults are gouge-rich, wavy anastomosing structures, with cleaved wall-rock zones up to several metres wide. The D 5 faults are correlated with Eocene deformation caused by the accretion of the Pacific Rim and Crescent Terranes along the southwestern margin of Vancouver Island. Myra Falls is the northernmost location to have been reported, at which the structures formed as part of the Cowichan fold and thrust belt.
Assessing mineral dust properties using passive dust samplers and scanning electron microscopy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Prediction of mineral dust properties at mine sites
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Structural history of the Arthur lineament, Northwest Tasmania: An analysis of critical outcrops
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2002
MINSQ - a least squares spreadsheet method for calculating mineral proportions from whole rock major element analyses
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 11-2002
U–Pb zircon geochronology from the Alexander terrane, southeast Alaska: implications for the Greens Creek massive sulphide deposit
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 12-2016
Abstract: This paper presents results of a laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – quadrapole mass spectrometer (LA–ICP–QMS) U–Pb dating study of small in situ zircon grains from s les collected in the vicinity of the Greens Creek massive sulphide deposit, on northern Admiralty Island, southeast Alaska. The Greens Creek mine is a volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in the central portion of the Alexander Triassic metallogenic belt (ATMB) and is one of the top global silver producers despite having a dominantly mafic metavolcanic stratigraphic footwall. The stratigraphic footwall is a Mississippian mafic metavolcanic sequence with a protolith age of approximately 340–330 Ma. The first U–Pb zircon constrained chronostratigraphy for the area places the deposit near, or at, the base of the host Late Triassic stratigraphy just above an approximately 100 million year old unconformity and probably 10–15 million years older than mineralization at the Palmer and Windy Craggy deposits in the northern portion of the ATMB. The stratigraphic location of the Greens Creek deposit is atypical for a syngenetic massive sulphide deposit, and this may, at least partly, explain its unusual metal endowment. Pre-mineralization Permian U–Pb zircon metamorphic ages are consistent with published 273–260 Ma white mica ages related to the collision of the Admiralty and Craig subterranes, the basement to the ATMB. The much older age of the footwall rocks and their Permian pre-mineralization metamorphism demonstrates that though the mafic volcanic rocks are not genetically linked to the deposit, they likely influenced the style of alteration and mineralization.
Rodinian devil in disguise: Correlation of 1.25–1.10 Ga strata between Tasmania and Grand Canyon
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 08-10-2018
DOI: 10.1130/G45225.1
Geochemistry and provenance of the Turquoise Bluff Slate, northeastern Tasmania: tectonic significance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-12-2018
Mineralization, U-Pb Geochronology, and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Lower Main Zone of the Lorraine Deposit, North-Central British Columbia: A Replacement-Style Alkalic Cu-Au Porphyry
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 17-03-2014
Micro-analytical Technologies for Mineral Mapping and Trace Element Deportment
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Deformation and metamorphism of the Aileu Formation, north coast, East Timor and its tectonic significance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1981
Basalt geochemistry as a test of the tectonic models of Timor.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 09-1982
Chemical U-Th-Pb monazite dating and the Proterozoic history of King Island, southeast Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Lithological discrimination of altered volcanic rocks based on systematic portable X-ray fluorescence analysis of drill core at the Myra Falls VHMS deposit, Canada
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
The tectonic significance of Cambrian allochthonous mafic-ultramafic complexes in Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1988
Soil transference patterns on bras: Image processing and laboratory dragging experiments
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.FORSCIINT.2015.10.009
Abstract: In a recent Australian homicide, trace soil on the victim's clothing suggested she was initially attacked in her front yard and not the park where her body was buried. However the important issue that emerged during the trial was how soil was transferred to her clothing. This became the catalyst for designing a range of soil transference experiments (STEs) to study, recognise and classify soil patterns transferred onto fabric when a body is dragged across a soil surface. Soil deposits of interest in this murder were on the victim's bra and this paper reports the results of anthropogenic soil transfer to bra-cups and straps caused by dragging. Transfer patterns were recorded by digital photography and photomicroscopy. Eight soil transfer patterns on fabric, specific to dragging as the transfer method, appeared consistently throughout the STEs. The distinctive soil patterns were largely dependent on a wide range of soil features that were measured and identified for each soil tested using X-ray Diffraction and Non-Dispersive Infra-Red analysis. Digital photographs of soil transfer patterns on fabric were analysed using image processing software to provide a soil object-oriented classification of all soil objects with a diameter of 2 pixels and above transferred. Although soil transfer patterns were easily identifiable by naked-eye alone, image processing software provided objective numerical data to support this traditional (but subjective) interpretation. Image software soil colour analysis assigned a range of Munsell colours to identify and compare trace soil on fabric to other trace soil evidence from the same location without requiring a spectrophotometer. Trace soil from the same location was identified by linking soils with similar dominant and sub-dominant Munsell colour peaks. Image processing numerical data on the quantity of soil transferred to fabric, enabled a relationship to be discovered between soil type, clay mineralogy (smectite), particle size and soil moisture content that would not have been possible otherwise. Soil type (e.g. Anthropogenic, gravelly sandy loam soil or Natural, organic-rich soil), clay mineralogy (smectite) and soil moisture content were the greatest influencing factors in all the dragging soil transference tests (both naked eye and measured properties) to explain the eight categories of soil transference patterns recorded. This study was intended to develop a method for dragging soil transference laboratory experiments and create a baseline of preliminary soil type roperty knowledge. Results confirm the need to better understand soil behaviour and properties of clothing fabrics by further testing of a wider range of soil types and clay mineral properties.
Whole-rock geochemistry of the Hili Manu peridotite, East Timor: implications for the origin of Timor ophiolites ∗
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2006
The Geology of the Nifty Copper Deposit, Throssell Group, Western Australia: Implications for Ore Genesis
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 11-2001
Chemical U-Th-Pb monazite dating of the Cambrian Tyennan Orogeny, Tasmania
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
A decompressional P–T path, Reinbolt Hills, East Antarctica
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-1991
Geochemistry and geochronology of Late Triassic volcanic rocks in the Chiang Khong region, northern Thailand
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-02-2009
Micro-analytical technologies for mineral mapping and trace element deportment
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-10-2016
Proterozoic Australia-Western United States (AUSWUS) fit between Laurentia and Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2000
Stratigraphy, structure, and volcanic-hosted mineralization of the Mount Windsor subprovince, north Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 05-1992
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