Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190102422
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Magma dynamics and ore deposits. This project aims to advance knowledge on magma transport mechanisms through the Earth’s lithosphere, and boost predictive capacity to discover new ore deposits. Using field surveys, three-dimensional reflection seismic data, laboratory experiments and rock fracture mechanics, this project will investigate where, how and why, narrow finger-like conduits form in lithosphere-scale magma plumbing systems. The project expects to generate new knowledge on the formation and location of highly valuable ore deposits of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group elements, which are preferentially trapped in poorly understood, finger-like magma conduits. Anticipated outcomes of the project include fundamental insights into how magma transport dynamics control traps for magmatic sulfide ores as well as equipping mineral explorers in targeting their search for these important, but hard to find, ore deposits, benefitting society through future discoveries of economically strategic, new commodities.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2019
End Date: 07-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Seismology and Seismic Exploration | Ore Deposit Petrology | Structural Geology | Geology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Precious (Noble) Metal Ore Exploration | Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified |
