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Major Initiatives

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS)

Western Australia

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence was established to integrate previously disparate fields - geochemistry, petrophysics, geophysics and numerical and thermodynamical modelling - to reach a new level of understanding of Earth’s dynamics and fluid cycle(s) through time.

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Australian Research Council Large Linkage in Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes

Western Australia

The primary aim of this project is to map and correlate lithospheric architecture (crust + upper mantle, 200 to >400 km thickness), mineral systems and metal endowment through space and time, seeding paradigm shifts in (1) understanding the evolution of the earth and (2) exploration for giant ore systems in a wide range of commodities, including Au, Ni and Fe.

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CSIRO Organic Geochemistry of Mineral Systems Cluster

Western Australia

This research program seeks to bridge the worlds of inorganic and organic geochemistry in mineral systems analysis by studying organic-inorganic-metal interactions in sources regions, along transport pathways, and at sites of metal deposition.

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Research Projects

Lifting the veil on the Geological Dark Ages: the search for Hadean crust on Earth

Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons, Western Australia

This project aims to develop the first comprehensive picture of the earliest growth history of the Australian continent as preserved in the Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons- in particular to locate, characterize, and define the areal distribution of Hadean crust.

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Mineral Geodynamics

Western Australia

The mineral exploration industry is evolving from seeking easily identified mineralization at the surface of the Earth to seeking difficult to find mineralization (deeply leached or buried). The discovery rate worldwide is decreasing and the costs of discovery are increasing dramatically.

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