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Maximising the value of 2D hard rock seismic acquisition at Escondida Porphyry Copper Mine
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Heather Schijns*, Gabriel Madero
- Date Published: September 2019
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In mining areas with limited previous seismic acquisition, 2D seismic lines are often acquired to determine viability of the method and optimal survey parameters in advance of a more comprehensive 3D survey. Consideration of the design and acquisitio...
The sample boundary effect in the low-frequency measurements of the elastic moduli of rocks
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Wenhui Tan, Vassily Mikhaltsevitch*, Maxim Lebedev, Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Boris Gurevich
- Date Published: September 2019
Abstract:
In this study we examine the effect of the boundary conditions on the laboratory measurements of the elastic properties of a fluid-saturated sedimentary rock at low frequencies. In laboratory experiments associated with studying fluid effects on elas...
The Bight Basin, evolution and prospectivity II; seismic, structure and balanced sections
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Kevin C Hill*, Jane Cunneen, Rebecca Farrington
- Date Published: September 2019
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A regional, high-quality seismic traverse from the coast to oceanic crust across the Bight Basin has been assembled and interpreted in detail, then balanced, restored, decompacted and replaced at paleo-water depths. The Late Cretaceous Ceduna Delta d...
Application of micro-XRF to characterise diamond drill-core from lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatites
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Naomi Potter, Nigel Brand
- Date Published: September 2019
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Micro X-ray fluorescence (µXRF) is a rapid and non-destructive technique used to acquire qualitative and quantitative data at high spatial resolution (i.e. µm scale). To date this technology has yet to be utilised to its full potential in the explo...
Insight from AIP modelling of VTEM ET data from Colorado
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Andrea Viezzoli, Burke Minsley, Antonio Menghini
- Date Published: September 2019
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Portions of the VTEM ET dataset from the Upper East River survey in Colorado were strongly affected by airborne induced polarization (AIP) effects. Ignoring AIP contributions to the data leads to difficulties in geological interpretation and loss of ...
Observations of geophone spurious resonance
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Steve Hearn*, Shaun Strong, Andrew Kinmont
- Date Published: September 2019
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A detailed understanding of the frequency response of geophones is critical for the design and quality control of broadband seismic surveys. We illustrate a pragmatic methodology for accurate identification of geophone spurious resonances. We include...
Seismic evidence for seal and reservoir in the Late Cretaceous Ceduna Delta, Great Australian Bight
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Ben Tredrea*, Phillip Horton
- Date Published: September 2019
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The Ceduna Sub-Basin contains a large and underexplored Jurassic - Cretaceous rift, located within the Great Australian Bight Basin. Limited exploration to date has targeted the Late Cretaceous Hammerhead and Tiger Super sequences (SS) of the Ceduna ...
Bayesian joint inversion of controlled source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric data to infer presence of a freshwater aquifer offshore New Jersey
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Daniel Blatter, Kerry Key, Anandaroop Ray*, Chloe Gustaffson, Rob Evans
- Date Published: September 2019
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To evaluate the extent of a low salinity aquifer within the continental shelf offshore New Jersey, USA, we adapt a Bayesian trans-dimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo (McMC) algorithm for jointly inverting surface towed controlled source electromagne...
Defining the Eyre Conductivity Anomaly with the Tumby Bay MT transect
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Kate Robertson, Ben Kay, Lachlan Loader, Graham Heinson*, and Stephan Thiel
- Date Published: September 2019
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We present results of 36 broadband magnetotelluric (MT) stations along a 70 km ENE-WSW profile across the southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The transect crosses the Eyre Peninsula Anomaly (EPA), first identified by induction arrows, and visua...
Rapid field identification of LCT pegmatite mineralogy: Application of portable Raman spectroscopy
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Sophie Perring*, Nigel Brand
- Date Published: September 2019
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Rapid field identification of mineralogy is critical for exploration and ore extraction. For LCT pegmatites, a significant challenge is presented as many dominant minerals are visually similar and many of these minerals cannot be identified by common...
Imaging challenges at Gulf of Papua (PNG) and their solutions through high-end imaging technology
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Zongying Gong*, Subhash Chandra, Xiaodong Wu, Yajing Li, Min Zhi, Michael Szczepaniak, Barry Hung
- Date Published: September 2019
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Recently, there has been increasing interest in exploration of the Gulf of Papua (GoP), part of the Papuan Basin. This Basin has undergone a complicated structural and stratigraphic evolution related to its position on the northeastern edge of the Au...
Resolving Structural Uncertainty using DAS VSP Survey in Central Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Konstantin Galybin, Cameron Jones, Frank Nicholson, Ryan Chapman, Rob Twigg
- Date Published: September 2019
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Borehole seismic technology provides an efficient way to image the subsurface in high-resolution, through 3D, Walkaway or Offset VSPs. Whilst acquisition time of the conventional VSP survey is less than surface seismic, such VSP surveys can take hour...
Low-Base Frequency Helicopter AEM Data from a Square-Wave System – Helitem2
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Adam Smiarowski, Graham Konieczny
- Date Published: September 2019
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Exploration for targets at depth or targets obscured by conductive overburden have historically been a challenge with airborne EM methods. Although modern systems have been improved with greater primary transmitter moments, noise from receiver coil m...
Mapping sub-volcanic geology using magnetic data
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Irena Kivior, Stephen Markham*, Shiferaw Damte
- Date Published: September 2019
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Volcanic layers within sedimentary basins cause significant problems for petroleum exploration because the attenuation of the seismic signal masks the underlying geology.
A test study was conducted for the South Australia Government to map t...
Improved HSEQ and survey efficiency demonstrated with a new remotely operated streamer cleaning tool
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Rune Tønnessen, Trygve Skadberg, James Wright, Andrew Long*
- Date Published: September 2019
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Barnacle growth on seismic streamers creates noise on the recorded signals. Keeping a low noise level in barnacle areas is challenging to seismic crews: Frequent workboat trips are required for streamer cleaning, and workboat operations are weather-d...
Viability of long-short term memory neural networks for seismic refraction first break detection – a preliminary study
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Tasman Gillfeather-Clark*, Eun-Jung Holden, Daniel Wedge, Tom Horrocks, Carlie Byrne, Matthew Lawrence
- Date Published: September 2019
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Seismic data processing and analysis focuses on identifying the arrival of seismic waves or ‘first-breaks’. The identification of the arrival of first breaks is complicated by the variance of recording quality typically found across the dataset. ...
Using network topology to constrain fracture network permeability
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Rowan Hansberry*, Simon Holford, Rosalind King, Natalie Debenham
- Date Published: September 2019
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Predicting the interconnectivity and permeability of fractures at any scale remains a fundamental challenge in structural geology. Models which predict the likelihood of fracture opening based on their relation to the stress field can be applied at s...
West Australian gold resources: crisis or hubris?
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Julian Vearncombe*
- Date Published: September 2019
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Criticism of the exploration and mining industry for failing to find enough new deposits and open new mines is misplaced. Significant growth in the size of gold Resources on many mines of the Yilgarn Craton has occurred well after the deposit was dis...
Characterising lithium host minerals within the lateritic duricrust, Greenbushes, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Sophie Vuleta*, Monica LeGras, Raymond E. Smith, Carsten Laukamp, Louise Schoneveld, Ravi Anand
- Date Published: September 2019
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Whilst detailed geochemical analyses have been conducted to mitigate the complications regolith cover poses to modern exploration efforts, less attention has been directed to the mineralogical associations that exist between lateritic residuum and po...
Application of high-end seismic imaging technologies for field development in NWS Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Min Lee Chua, Kai Zhao, Narcisa Lazarescu, Wai King Yong, Sergey Birdus, Alexey Artemov, Xiang Li
- Date Published: September 2019
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The North West Shelf, situated in the north-west of Western Australia, is a world-renowned offshore hydrocarbon province with investments of more than A$200 billion to date. However, the quality of the legacy seismic often suffersfrom severe residual...
Investigating rock micro-structure of sandstones by pattern recognition on their X-ray images
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Ankita Singh, Ryan Armstrong, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Peyman Mostaghimi
- Date Published: September 2019
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Analysing rock micro-structure from micro-computed tomographic images of porous media is vital to understand fluid-flow and estimating petrophysical properties like permeability. The two main approaches of analysing rock micro-structure are (1) throu...
Yamarna Geology: Foundations for Further Discovery
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Janet Tunjic*, John Donaldson, Justin Osborne, Clayton Davy’s, Rick Berg
- Date Published: September 2019
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World-class gold discoveries are being made in the Yamarna Terrane, one of the least understood terranes of the Yilgarn Craton. Despite many and varied challenges, Gold Road are in the unique position of compiling and constructing the stratigraphic m...
What will it take to improve the characterisation of deep mineral deposits in order to assess “economic value” early in the discovery process?
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Joe Cucuzza*
- Date Published: September 2019
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In Australia, in particular, the consensus is that most, if not all, of the world-class non-ferrous mineral deposits that are either at or near the surface have been found. This means that we need to look deeper in the new greenfield search space cha...
Twenty years of pre-competitive geoscience data in the Capricorn Orogen: the link between mineral systems and crustal evolution
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Simon P. Johnson
- Date Published: September 2019
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State- and federal-generated pre-competitive geoscience data is critical for exploration success. These relatively low-cost but high-quality regional-scale datasets ultimately reduce the financial risk to explorers by reducing the search space and al...
Groundwater applications of towed TEM in diverse geology at farm scale
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: David Allen
- Date Published: September 2019
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Vehicle towed transient TEM systems have opened up possibilities of comprehensive mapping of groundwater resources at farm scale. At this scale airborne TEM usually has too much setup cost and conventional TEM conducted on foot is usually too lab...
Regional Stratal Slice Imaging of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Tony Marsh, Anne Powell
- Date Published: September 2019
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Chevron has developed a method for merging, viewing, and interpreting multiple 3D seismic surveys in stratal slice domain. The products of this method are referred to as Regional Stratal Slice Volumes (RSSVs). Within the Northern Carnarvon Basin (NCB...
Co-operative inversion of geoelectrical data sets acquired from different electrode arrays
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Duy Thong Kieu*, Thi Chinh Truong
- Date Published: September 2019
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Direct current resistivity (DCR) method is one of the most commonly applied geophysical exploration methods. The development of data acquisition techniques enables the acquisition of multiple data sets of various electrode arrays with a little extra ...
Structural modification of the Jaguar VHMS Zn-Cu-Ag deposits, Yilgarn Craton, W.A.
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Jonathan Standing, David Potter
- Date Published: September 2019
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The Jaguar VHMS camp represents a cluster of small sub-sea-floor replacement style VHMS deposits sandwiched between two closely spaced, craton-scale, shear zones. Despite preserving evidence for growth faults and feeder structures, the country rocks ...
Assessing mineral composition and permeability of a shale seal
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Roman Beloborodov, Marina Pervukhina*, Maxim Lebedev, Juerg Hauser
- Date Published: September 2019
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Predicting the mineralogical composition of shales is crucial for drilling operations related to hydrocarbon exploration/production as well as for the assessment of their sealing capacity as hydrocarbon or CO2 barriers. Despite the importance of infe...
A geological pressure model for the Browse Basin and the southern Vulcan Sub-Basin, NWS Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
- Authors: Jakob Heller, Toh Shi-Yuan*, Alex Edwards
- Date Published: September 2019
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The results presented in this paper draws on a regional pressure analysis of the offshore areas of the Browse Basin and the southern Vulcan Sub-Basin. ...