Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0668981
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Advancing diamond exploration - novel techniques for the interpretation of indicator minerals. Diamond production is an important industry in Australia, with a total export value in 2004-05 of $650 million. Most of this production comes from the Argyle Mine in Western Australia, which may be nearing the end of its productivity. Therefore, there is a need to reinvigorate exploration for diamond in Australia, in order for new and significant deposits to be discovered. The outcomes of this proposal will provide diamond exploration companies with improved mineralogical tools to assess the likely diamond grade of parts of the lithosphere sampled by kimberlite or lamproite magmas, thus better directing exploration strategies.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2007
End Date: 03-2010
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $121,244.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Exploration Geochemistry | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology
