"The Haddon King Medal Lecture – Mineral exploration under cover – seeing the elephant."
Dr Neil Williams, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong.
Technical presentation at 2015 Broken Hill Resources Investment symposium.
2015 Broken Hill Resources Investment Symposium - University of Wollongong - Neil Williams
1. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Mineral exploration under cover
– seeing the elephant.
Neil Williams
2. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Annual Conference 1968, Broken Hill
75th Anniversary of the AusIMM
3. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
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The Blind Men and the Elephant
4. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Broken Hill district 1970 – “I can’t see the elephant!”
5. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Old style airborne magnetic output
http://www.ga.gov.au/corporate_data/13792/Rec1980_006.pdf
6. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
AMIRA – The Australian Mineral
Industry Research Association
Project P179: INTEGRATED DATA ANALYSIS USING
IMAGE PROCESSING CONCEPTS (May 1984 to May
1986) – CSIRO Division of Mineral Physics and
Mineralogy – NSW)
“Software was developed for the
geometric correction of airborne
scanner data and the manipulation of
geophysical data, particularly airborne
magnetics and radiometrics.”
AMIRA 28th Annual Report,1986-1987
7. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
New style airborne magnetic output
Fig. 2 AGSO Record 2000/02 – width of image = 50 km
8. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
An early 1985 output
from AMIRA P179
• Mudgee area, NSW
• Contours – airmag
• Solid colour – airborne
radiometrics
• Blue = Potassium
• Red = Uranium
• Green = Thorium
9. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Airborne magnetic coverage of Australia October 1994
• Red = Good – line spacing
500m or closer
• Blue = Not so good – line
spacing 1.6 to 3.2 km
10. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Chief Government Geologist’s Committee
Central Australia 2004
Tasmania
Victoria
Queensland
Commonwealth
Western Australia
Northern Territory
NSW
Northern Territory
South Australia
11. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
Different views of the geology of Australia
Magnetics Gravity
Topography
Outcrop
Geology
Radiometrics
12. AAS Haddon Forrester King Lecture 2015
The Curnamona Province
“The extent of the Curnamona Province is
most easily delineated from aeromagnetic
data, which show it as completely fringed by
younger mobile belts”
R.S. Robertson, Preiss, W.V., Crooks, A.F., Hill, P.W., &
Sheard, M.J., Sheard I, 1998; AGSO Journal of Australian
Geology & Geophysics, 17(3), 169- 182