The Geological Survey of New South Wales promotes opportunities for geological discovery in the state. It has 103 staff and a $17.8 million budget. It provides capabilities across coal, petroleum, geosequestration, geothermal and minerals through activities like mapping, geophysics, drilling, and database development. Current projects include developing a seamless digital geology model of NSW, a statewide depth to basement model, and capturing high resolution airborne geophysical data. The organization provides training and access to data systems to support mineral exploration and discovery in NSW.

1. The Geological Survey of New
South Wales: promoting
opportunities for discovery
Chris Yeats
Executive Director GSNSW

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103 Staff
63 Permanent, 40 Term staff
Coal Innovation NSW within GSNSW
$17.8M Budget (ex-CINSW)
$12.0M Staff, $4.8M Operating
$1.0M Grants
$3.0BN Assets
$2.5b – digital data holdings
$0.5b – core, cuttings, samples in 6 core libraries
1400GSNSW products
600 books, reports, bulletins etc.
60 digital data packages, apps
550 maps
Capabilities across coal, petroleum,
geosequestration, geothermal and
minerals:
• Mapping
• Mineral systems
• Geophysics, 3D
• Large survey and drilling procurement
• Land-use, titles, & resource assessment
• Palaeontology, Petrology, HyLogger™
• Digital Cartography
• Editing, layout, graphics
• Databases, web delivery, apps
• Policy & technical advice
GSNSW Snapshot 2016-2017

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1. Correct line mismatches
2. Harmonize stratigraphic
units
3. Interpret undercover for
solid basement maps
Seamless Geology of NSW

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Seamless Geology Release Schedule & Value Add
Due mid-2017Due mid-2018 Released 2015
Released
2016
NEO fault attribution,
metamorphism,
outcrop layers
complete.
Stratigraphic unit tables
in progress
NEO Minerals Systems
Study in progress
Zone 54 Zone 56West East
Zone 55
Fault attribution
in progress

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Statewide Depth to Basement Model
Unconsolidated
Cover
Consolidated
Cover
Pre-Permian
Basement
Seamless
Geology
• 3 Lithological volumes based on:
• Waterbores
• Exploration drill holes
• Reflection seismic
• Seamless geology
• AVAILABLE NOW
Basement
Unconsolidated cover
Eromanga Basin
Constraining Drill holes

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Southern Thomson Orogen Project

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Captains Flat Special Edition
• 50k scale geological mapping
• Lockhart Igneous Complex – engine
for VMS deposits in Goulburn Basin
• Look for new deposits at eruptive
centres along rift axis- not the basin
margins
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Lockhart
Igneous
Complex

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Cobar Basin Metallogenesis
• 250k scale metallogenic mapping (2016)
• Metamorphic map (2016)
• NEW Quarterly Note (Feb 2017)
• Eastern margin deposits in narrow zones
of high heat flow along major faults-
magmatic related, pre-tectonic

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Statewide airborne magnetic/radiometric coverage
• Priority for next 5
to 10 years is infill
of poor quality
(>400m line
spacing) areas
west of the Great
Dividing Range

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GSNSW and
Geoscience Australia
signed an NCF
Agreement in June
2016, funding a
program that will
progress to full
coverage of the State
in the next three years
Australian Lithospheric Architecture
Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP)
Southern NSW
FarWest
Completed

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• Flexible
• Basic vs Advanced
• Spatial search option
• Save searches
New DIGS Search Engine

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New Map Viewer
MinView 3
Web map to discover and visualise
• geological mapping data
• field observations
• drilling information
• mineral occurrences
• geochemistry
• geochronology
• Statewide geophysics
“Easy public access to all validated
non-confidential geoscientific and
supportive reference data stored by
the GSNSW from a single web map
interface”
Does not include GIS type
analysis tools eg buffering,
intersections or regulatory
workflows

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GSNSW Training for Industry
GSNSW Data Systems
Sydney, Orange, Cobar
+ Broken Hill (2017)
Drillcore Logging and HyLogging
Londonderry

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Exploration Opportunities