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Major Initiatives

4D lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral systems in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes

West Africa

This project is studying a fundamental transition period in planet Earth 2.7-1.8 billion years ago (Ga), that is also remarkably endowed in metal deposits.

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AMIRA P934A West African Exploration Initiative-stage 2

West Africa

This is a large AMIRA project that aims to resolve what are the first order structures that divide the West African Craton into distinct mineralising domains, to define absolute and relative timing relationships between the magmatic, deformation and metamorphic events that control formation of major mineral deposits.

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Giant Gold Systems of the Birimian (Obuasi, Siguiri)

Ghana/Guinea, West Africa

This project is building 4-D geological models to aid exploration targeting at both mine and regional scales in the Paleoproterozoic terranes of the Leo-Mann shield in West Africa.

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Research Projects

4D evolution of the Agnew gold field, Yilgarn Craton

Agnew, WA

This project aims to assess the controls and significance on the variations in the gold systems in the Agnew region of Western Australia.

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4D evolution of the Plutonic Greenstone Belt

Plutonic Greenstone Belt, WA

The principal aims of this project are to re-assess and understand the geology and geophysics of the Plutonic Well Greenstone Belt of Western Australia in order to provide better reconstructions of basement geometries with the stratigraphic and structural relationships. This aims to improve targeting.

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4D evolution of the Telfer deposit, W.A.

Telfer, Western Australia

This project is assessing the controls on, and significance of, spatial variations in the character and grade of mineralisation within the giant copper-gold system at Telfer in the Patterson Orogen, W.A.

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4D evolution of the Tennant Creek mineral field

Tennant Creek, Northern Territory

This study aims to integrate structural geology, gold deposits, potential field data sets and hydrothermal footprints in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field in the Northern Territory.

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4D evolution of the Yanfolila Belt, Mali, West Africa

Yanfolila Belt, Mali

The project aims at improving the understanding of the geological framework of the Yanfolila belt, in Mali in the Paleoproterozoic terrane of the Leo-Mann shield in West Africa.

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Controls on epithermal and orogenic gold mineralisation in Argentina

Argentina

This two year research project was funded by Troy Resources in order to generate a series of GIS-based prospectivity maps and to delineate targets for different gold systems and various styles of gold mineralization in Argentina, from country-scale to district-scale analyses, with a focus on the Casposo low sulfidation epithermal gold system in the Frontal Cordillera, San Juan province in Argentina.

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District-scale geology and controls on gold mineralization, Pataz gold field

Pataz gold field, Pataz

This 12 month post-doctoral research programme was funded by Poderosa to map the geology (at 1:25 000) of the Pataz district, where the company operates several undergorund gold deposits (<4 Mill oz Au) hosted by the Pataz batholith in the underexplored Eastern Andean Cordillera of Peru. The goal of this applied research was to determine the controls on mineralisation and propose exploration targets based on the results of this investigation.

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