"New mineral provinces and mineral systems in South Australia’s exploration prospectus". Dr Steve Hill, Director and Chief Government Geologist, Geological Survey of South Australia. Investor presentation at 2015 Broken Hill Resources Investment symposium.

1. New
mineral
provinces
and
mineral
systems
in
South
Australia's
explora9on
prospectus
Steve Hill
Director, Geological Survey of South Australia
May 2015
www.statedevelopment.sa.gov.au

2. This
presenta,on…
3
main
parts
1. Introduc,on
(the
challenges)
2. GSSA’s
ac,vi,es
(for
mee,ng
the
challenges)
3. Curnamona
examples
(as
an
entrée
for
Wednesday’s
Technical
Presenta,ons)

3. This
presenta,on…
• 3
main
parts
1. Introduc9on
(the
challenges)
2. GSSA’s
ac,vi,es
(for
mee,ng
the
challenges)
3. Curnamona
examples
(as
an
entrée
for
Wednesday’s
Technical
Presenta,ons)

4. Discovery
The strength of the mining industry is sustained
through new discoveries.
If you don’t have discoveries then you don’t have
mines.
Geoffrey Blainey AC
August 2013

5. Government
/
Private
Drivers
of
Discovery
(“The
Carter
slide”
aka
“The
Magna
Carter”)
Land
Access
Human
&
Intellectual
Capital
Educa,on
and
training
R&D
–
new
explora,on
and
processing
technologies
Precompe99ve
Geoscien9fic
Data
and
Informa9on
Capture
and
Delivery
Value-­‐add
Research
Underexplored
/
Covered
Regions
Targeted
Programs
Discovery
Quality
of
Explora9on
Quan9ty
of
Explora9on
GeoscienceAustralia;CSIRO,UofA;SACOME;GSSA
Availability
of
Finance
GREENFIELDS
Adapted
from
Derek
Carter

6. The
Mineral
Explora,on
Expenditure
‘Wave’
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
South Australian expenditure
SA's percentage share of Australian expenditure
SASP Target 41 - $200m to 2015
Former SASP Target T1.18 - $100m
SouthAustralian
mineralexploration
expenditure($m)
SA'sshareof
Australianmineral
exploration
expenditure(%)
source: ABS data Cat. 8412.0 and
Department of State Development
Challenger
discovery
PACE
Four Mile
discovery
Olympic Dam
Expansion
Carrapateena
discovery
Olympic Dam
drill-out
PACE
2020
Prominent
Hill
discovery
Jacinth-
Ambrosia
discovery
Hillside
discovery
Impact of
GFC
6

7. Catching
waves….
• How
do
you
catch
waves?
1.
You’ve
got
to
be
in
the
water
and
ready
before
the
wave
comes
(not
watching
from
the
shore)

8. What
are
we
doing
to
help
SA
catch
the
next
wave?
Photo:
Warren
Bolster

9. Moon Plain, Stuart Shelf, SA (Photo S.Hill)
The
DISCOVERY
challenge…
The
covered
minerals
search
space
across
80%
of
South
Australia!

10. Chile
Peru
USA
51
Mt
Cu-­‐eq
A
Discovery
Gap
to
be
filled
Source:
MinEx
Consul,ng
March
2012
Poten9al
for
DISCOVERY
South
Australia

11. Na9onal
Mineral
Explora9on
Strategy
&
UNCOVER
Industry
focused
UNCOVER
Roadmap
drac
now
released
via
AMIRA

12. Improving
Explora,on
Performance
• Methodical,
systema,c
and
disciplined
explora,on
targe,ng,
scale-­‐reduc,on,
decision-­‐
making
process
• This
scale
reduc,on
decision
making
process
starts
at
terrane
scale,
through
regional,
camp
and
finally
deposit
scale
• Extends
from
predic,on
to
detec,on
with
scale
reduc,on

13. Themes
during
scale
reduc,on
explora,on
From
UNCOVER
Roadmap

14. This
presenta,on…
• 3
main
parts
1. Introduc,on
(the
challenges)
2. GSSA’s
ac9vi9es
(for
mee9ng
the
challenges)
3. Curnamona
examples
(as
an
entrée
for
Wednesday’s
Technical
Presenta,ons)

15. GSSA
ac,vi,es
according
to
the
scale
reduc,on
exercise:
1. Discovering
new
Mineral
Provinces
2. Discovering
new
Mineral
Systems
3. Discovering
new
Mineral
Deposits

16. 1.
Discovering
a
new
Mineral
Province
in
South
Australia
• South
Australia’s
far
west…
Photo:
Steve
Hill

17. REGIONAL:
New
Cu-­‐Ni-­‐PGE
Province
in
Western
Gawler
Craton
/
‘Coompana’
(TMI
backdrop)
‘Coompana’
Fowler
Domain
Gawler
Ranges
Deep
crustal
seismic
line
(GA,
AusScope
GSWA,
GSSA)
SA’s
largest
airborne
magne9cs
/
radiometrics
survey
• 249,000
km
survey
data
• Tender
awarded
to
GPX
Surveys
Regional
Magnetotellurics
50
km
AusLAMP
grid
Regional
Plant
Biogeochemistry
Colin
Dunn
&
Helen
Waldron
Towards
Regional
drilling!
• <6
basement
penetra,ng
holes
in
western
half
of
State!
• Recent
regional
drilling
under
Eucla
Basin
in
WA
reached
basement
within
400m

18. 2.
Discovering
new
Mineral
Systems
in
South
Australia
• Uno
Province
(southern
GRV
margins
–
northern
Eyre
Peninsula)
• 1590
Ma
IOCG
and
associated
crustal
sec,on
into
other
mineral
systems?
• TRANSFORMATIONAL,
WORLD-­‐FIRST
Mineral
System
Drilling
collabora,on
with
DET
CRC
and
Industry
– New
Technology
pull
through
– Innova,ve
mapping
undercover
approach
– Real
,me
data
delivery
– Industry
explora,on
collabora,on

19. A
1590
Ma
crustal
sec9on
for
South
Australia?

20. New
Eastern
Gawler
Craton
Solid
Geology
• 6144
drillholes
(2558
of
them
targe,ng
IOCGs)
From:
Tom
Wise,
GSSA
2015
SAREIC
Presenta,on

21. WUDINNA
KIMBA
WHYALLA
PORT
AUGUSTA
Paris
Menninnie
Dam
Iron
Duke
Uno
PORT
LINCOLN
Minotaur
Explora9on
Kingston
Resources
REGIONAL TO CAMP -Uno Province /
Southern GRV margins
1590
Ma
Gawler
Range
Volcanics
cover
Regional
Mineral
System
Drilling
From
$2
M
PACE
Fron,ers
fund
into
>
$7
M
program!
Geological
Mapping
and
Geochronology
AusLAMP
Magnetotellurics
grid
(~50
km)
Regional
Metallogenic
Studies
Regional
Geochemistry
and
Mineralogy
(esp.
open
file
drill
samples)

22. Coiled
Tubing
Drill
Rig
Autonomous
Sonde
Lab-­‐at-­‐RigTM

23. 3.
Discovering
new
Mineral
Deposits
in
South
Australia:
Hillside
Olympic
IOCG
Domain

24. NE
Olympic
Domain
Mineral
Province
Gravity
(Dec
2013
release)
• ~$2M
PACE
funded
• 34,541
new
gravity
sta,ons
at
1x1
km
and
2x2
km
spacing
• Included
in
Dept
of
Defence’s
Woomera
Prohibited
Area
(WPA)
Subsequent
industry
infill
sta9ons
and
explora9on
drilling

25. 25
Prospectivity
modelling by Tom Wise
Inputs
from
New
Woomera
Prohibited
Area
Gravity
data
IOCG
Mineral
system
target
prospec9vity
modelling

26. Eastern Gawler Craton (GSSA / DET CRC)
• Re-­‐assayed
95
DHs
• HyLogger
scanned
100s
of
DHs
• Collected
1000s
petrophysical
measurements
• Data
integrated
(regional
3D
model
release)
• Workflow
for
characterising
altera9on
(van
der
Wielen
et
al
2013;
Fabris
et
al
2013).

27. • IOCG
index
(commercialisa,on
with
Reflex
for
ioGAS
5.2
release)

28. Olympic
Dam
-­‐
RU
39
5371
Hema,te
and
granite
breccia
Altered
granite
(Roxby
Downs
Granite)
Hema,te
breccia
U3O8
Cu
Au
White
mica:
dominance
of
muscovite
in
ore
zone
and
phengite
in
altera,on
zone
Chlorite:
dominance
of
Fe-­‐end
member
in
proximal
altera,on
zone
0m
100m
200m
300m
HyloggerTM data

29. Mineral
System
Map
for
enlarged
target
/
vectoring
29
• Increase the size of the target
• Predict where you are within the mineral system
• IOCG deposits - large alteration systems

30. Collabora9on
is
key!
• PACE
• Industry
collabora,on
• Best
researchers
and
associated
geoscience
and
technology
(e.g.
Universi,es,
CSIRO,
DET
CRC,
Service
Providers)
• Na,onal
partnerships
(e.g.
Australia
Minerals,
Geoscience
Australia,
NSWGS,
NT)
• Interna,onal
partnerships
(e.g.
Sernageomin
(Chile),
Saskatchewan
GS,
China
GS,
China
Na,onal
Nuclear
Corpora,on)

31. $32
M
State
Drill
Core
Library
-­‐
Tonsley
More
to
come,
stay
tuned….

32. PACE Discovery Drilling
Round 8 of Drilling Collaborations
• 27
successful
projects
• $2
million
of
collaboraBve
drilling
grants
• $4.9
million
esBmated
addiBonal
company
expenditure
• ~$6.9
million
est.
total
program
value

33. 7 Rounds of Drilling Collaborations
• 438
drilling
proposals
• 217
receiving
PACE
support
• 154
Complete
PACE Discovery Drilling
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
PACE 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.4 1.7 13.05 2.0
Actual 1.03 2.76 1.58 1.37 1.37 1.26 0.76 10.14 2.0
Industry 0.67 4.61 3.96 4.62 7.11 3.11 3.21 27.29 4.9
($ in Million) 44+

34. 7 Rounds of Drilling Collaborations
• 438
drilling
proposals
• 217
receiving
PACE
support
• 154
Complete
Discovery Drilling
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
PACE 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.4 1.7 13.05 2.0
Actual 1.03 2.76 1.58 1.37 1.37 1.26 0.76 10.14 2.0
Industry 0.67 4.61 3.96 4.62 7.11 3.11 3.21 27.29 4.9
($ in Million) $44 Mil

35. Geoscientst Assistance Program
GAP v 1.0
Strategic Partnership SACOME and DSD
• July
2009
–
December
2012
• 50%
GAP
/
50%
Company
funded
contracts
• 33
placements
with
high
retenBon
rate
and
progression
into
more
senior
roles
• AddiBonal
funding
for
training
• 22
companies
• ~$200,000
annual
expenditure
Visit the SACOME website for
more information

36. Geoscientst Assistance Program
GAP v 2.0
3 to 6 month contracts
• Maintain,
develop
and
diversify
the
States
geoscienBst
skill
base
• Minimise
the
loss
of
graduates
and
skilled
professionals
to
other
States
and
Sectors
Opportunities for
• Field
and
Drilling
programs
• Geophysical
placements
Ask for Jonathon Forbes!

37. This
presenta,on…
• 3
main
parts
1. Introduc,on
(the
challenges)
2. GSSA’s
ac,vi,es
(for
mee,ng
the
challenges)
3. Curnamona
examples
(as
an
entrée
for
Wednesday’s
Technical
Presenta9ons)

38. South
Australian
Uranium
Occurrences
Map
–
Revised
seventh
edi,on.
2015
1:2
000
000
Wilson,
T.C,
Fairclough,
M.C.,
McAvaney,
S.O.
and
Kluske,
J.
(compilers)
Wilson,
T.
2015.
Uranium
and
uranium
mineral
systems
in
South
Australia
–
Third
edi,on,
Report
Book
2015/00011.
Department
of
State
Development,
South
Australia,
Adelaide.

39. Palaeodrainage
and
Cenozoic
Coastal
Barriers
of
South
Australia
2nd
Edi,on
2012
1:2
000
000
Hou,
B.,
Fabris,
A.J.,
Michaelsen,
B.H.,
Katona,
L.F.,
Keeling,
J.L.,
Stoian,
L.,
Wilson,
T.C.,
Fairclough,
M.C.,
Cowley,
W.M.
and
Zang,
W.
(compilers).

40. Geology
and
mineral
resources
of
Bimbowrie
CP
Wolfgang
Preiss,
2014
GSSA
Report
Book
2014/00003

41. NEW
RELEASE!
Mount
Painter
Map
and
fieldguide
Steve
Hore,
2015
Steve
Hore
&
Steve
Hill
2015

42. Youngest ICPMS dated zircons of
the sampled suite are Permian.
Excava,on
of
the
‘Sprigg
Costean’
exposing
the
Sprigg
Diamic,te
Member
in
1987
over-­‐looked
by
John
Drexel
and
Reg
Sprigg.
Introduc,on
of
the
Sprigg
Diamic,te
Member
during
a
MTEC
geological
educa,on
course
2009.
The
Sprigg
Diamic,te
exposed
in
‘Sprigg
Costean’.
(2003)
Stephen
B
Hore,
Anthony
J
Reid
and
Steven
M
Hill
2015
Geochronology
provides
new
insights
into
one
of
South
Australia’s
most
enigma9c
rocks:
Defini9on
and
age
of
the
Sprigg
Diamic9te
Member,
northern
Flinders
Ranges,
South
Australia,
MESA
Journal
77
New
geochronology
for
enigma,c
rock
in
key
field
sewng!

43. AusLAMP SA50km grid – current status (StephanThiel,GSSA)
43Department of State Development
Australian Lithospheric
Architecture Magnetotelluric
Project
Status as at 09 April 2014
• Blue - sites completed
• Aqua – completed pending
data QC
• Green – sites currently
deployed
• Yellow – sites planned
AusLAMP
extension –
University
of Adelaide

44. Disclaimer
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informa9on
contained
in
this
presenta9on
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compiled
by
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Department
of
State
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and
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of
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informa9on,
it
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