AuScope funds $1 million Curnamona Earth Imaging Project
Together with operational funding, this Curnamona Earth Imaging Project represents over $1 million of NCRIS investment via AuScope, and creates a golden opportunity to map an entire geological Curnamona Province in 3D to help find new deposits of
Critical Minerals.
https://www.auscope.org.au/news-features/1m-for-curnamona-project
Project Overview
The Curnamona Deep Earth Imaging Project (the 'Project') is designed to help scientists see through the thick geological cover rock sequences that blankets the Curnamona Province which is situated across the South Australian and New South Wales state border. It is one of the most remote and poorly known locations on Earth. For mineral explorers, it represents great opportunity, as Program leader,
Prof Graham Heinson from The University of Adelaide explains:
“Despite hosting the world’s richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit at Broken Hill, much of the Curnamona Province is greenfields, due to extensive sedimentary cover. However, the tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Province shares similarity to the eastern Gawler Craton and Stuart Shelf, and the Mount Isa Province, suggesting that the Curnamona Province may similarly host additional resources.”
“This project will define an entire Province geophysically, from the surface to the asthenosphere. Aside from the deep geophysical imaging, other geophysical data sets (magnetics, gravity), geology (mapping, structure) and geochemistry (isotopes, geochronology) will be integrated over time into the Curnamona Cube release to characterise the Province.”
The Project will involve two phases: first, the
Curnamona Cube Program, which will generate a deep earth image of the whole Curnamona Province; and second, the
Curnamona SuperSite Program which will form a pilot observatory site to peer into earth’s interior, eventually linking with similar SuperSites across Australia.
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P.S. Havilah's tenement holding area in the Curnamona Province (Craton) > 16,000 km
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