Stavely Project Report 7 - Applying chlorite and epidote group mineral chemistry 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: Epidote and chlorite chemistry is increasingly being applied in mineral exploration to determine prospectivity and provide vectors towards hydrothermal systems (and by inference mineralisation). Epidote- and chlorite-bearing samples from the Thursday’s Gossan (porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum) and Eclipse (volcanic-hosted massive sulphide – VHMS – copper-zinc-gold) prospects, which are hosted in Cambrian volcanic belts of the Stavely Arc in western Victoria, were analysed for trace element geochemistry using laser ablation inductively-couple mass spectrometry at the Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Science (University of Tasmania). Bibliographic reference: Duncan, R.J., Belousov I., Meffre, S., Taylor, D.H., Danyushevsky, L., Cooke, D.R., 2018. Applying chlorite and epidote group mineral chemistry as a fertility indicator for arc-related mineral systems in the Stavely Arc, western Victoria. Stavely Project Report 7. Geological Survey of Victoria. Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. Download: The downloadable version of this report is supplied in PDF format (22.3MB), MS Word text only (46kb) and Appendices (ZIP 9kb). | ||||||
