Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP210200793
Funding Status
Active
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Funded Activity Summary
Finding Porphyry Copper with zircon trace elements & hyperspectral display. Copper mine discovery rates lag behind world needs. One way to find copper in the World’s Ring of Fire is to measure compositions of zircons which are durable minerals concentrated in stream sands and spreadout long distances below a deposit. 100s of zircon from a cup of sand constitute a sample. Zircon chemical features that indicate possible mines are mostly understood, but nature is complicated. Beyond the 26 channels of chemical data for each grain in the 10,000s of analyses, there are 7 layers of lab imaging data that are not carried along in a convenient way. Geologists need smart computer systems to find useful relationships among the 33 channels and to discover relations within and between samples to find more mineable copper.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2022
End Date: 10-2025
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $797,827.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ore Deposit Petrology | Exploration Geochemistry | Geochemistry | Geochronology
