Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669595

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669595

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Experimental constraints on Platinum-Group Element geochemistry: developing lithogeochemical exploration tools for nickel-sulfides in mafic and ultramafic systems. Nickel contributes approximately $2 billion per year to Australia's export income. Currently 80% of that is coming from sulfide deposits, which are expected to be exhausted within thirty years barring significant new discoveries. Discovery rates have been declining for two decades, as the 'easy' targets have been found, despite a broad increase in nickel exploration expenditure to current levels of around $50 million per year. There is a pressing need for new data sets and techniques to allow industry to target new discoveries based on limited drill sampling of potential host rocks. This project forms part of a broader program to harness the igneous geochemistry of the platinum group elements as a powerful pathfinder in nickel exploration.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 29-03-2007

End Date: 30-03-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $160,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Exploration Geochemistry | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Higher education | Earth sciences | Other

Other Keywords

Earth sciences | Exploration Geochemistry | Geology | Higher education | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Other

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