Stavely Project Report 6 - Groundwater borehole lithologies 2018
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Product description:Introduction: State and private groundwater boreholes and their associated data are an underused and undervalued resource in mineral exploration, especially in areas where prospective basement is concealed largely by cover. Data may include spatial information, aquifer depth and yield, hydrogeochemistry, bore construction, simple lithology logs and physical core/cuttings. Given the significant agricultural activity and use of groundwater in western Victoria, a borehole dataset can be a valuable adjunct to the focussed mineral exploration drilling databases. Abstract: A total of 14,964 groundwater bores have been identified within and immediately adjacent to the Stavely Project area, western Victoria, of which 1,723 (12%) are interpreted to have intersected basement. The collation of groundwater boreholes and associated metadata has shown that these data present a valuable, low-cost resource for ascertaining buried basement lithology, cover thickness, cover character and depth-to-basement for mineral exploration, particularly in areas where there has been limited mineral exploration drilling. Bibliographic reference: English P., Say M.M., Cairns C.P. & Taylor D.H., 2018. Applying groundwater borehole lithology data in areas of prospective basement, Western Victoria. Stavely Project Report 6, Geological Survey of Victoria. Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Victoria. Download: The downloadable version of this report is supplied in PDF format (28MB), MS Word text only (52kb) and Appendices (ZIP 4.2MB). | ||||||
