Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170103140
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The copper-gold fertility of mountain belts. This project aims to identify the timing of, and understand the causes of, sulphide saturation in granitic suites to test the hypothesis that sulphide saturation controls the fertility of copper-gold deposits. More than half of the world’s copper and gold comes from granitic rocks, but most granitic suites are barren. As copper-gold deposits become increasingly difficult to find, and exploration budgets have been slashed, it is critical to reliably distinguish ore bearing from barren systems. Platinum group element geochemistry could make this distinction by pinpointing the timing of sulphide saturation in evolving magma systems. Eliminating barren suites as exploration targets will save Australia’s exploration dollars which can be directed to where the prospects of success are greatest.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $315,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ore Deposit Petrology | Inorganic Geochemistry | Geology | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Precious (Noble) Metal Ore Exploration | Copper Ore Exploration |
