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Exploring for the Future: Fluid inclusions from the Benmara and Carrara Range regions, Northern Territory: Buddycurrawa Volcanics (Benmara Group) and Plain Creek Formation (McNamara Group)
The Exploring for the Future (EFTF) Program is a multiyear, federally funded initiative to better characterise the mineral, energy and groundwater resource potential across Australia. As part of this initiative, this data record presents mineral fluid inclusion data from two sample from the South Nicholson region. The South Nicholson region straddles north-eastern Northern Territory and north-western Queensland, and prior to the EFTF program, arguably represented one of the least geologically understood regions of Proterozoic northern Australia. The South Nicholson region is situated between two highly prospective provinces, the greater McArthur Basin in the Northern Territory, the Lawn Hill Platform and the Mount Isa Province in Queensland, both with demonstrated hydrocarbon and base-metal potential.
These new fluid inclusion data provide information on sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the South Nicholson region that complement other components of the EFTF program, including the South Nicholson Basin and Barkly seismic surveys, comprehensive geochronology and geochemical programs, hydrocarbon prospectivity studies and other extensive regional geophysical surveys to better understand the geological evolution and basin architecture of northern Australia. The primary objective of the program is to facilitate identification of areas of unrecognised resource potential and prospectivity and encourage and stimulate ‘greenfield’ resource exploration.
This record presents new fluid inclusion data from two outcrop samples: a) siliceous hydrothermal ‘white smoker’ pipes within the ca. 1660–1630 Ma Buddycurrawa Volcanics (Benmara Group, Benmara region) and b) feeder veinlets of a manganese oxide occurrence in the Carrara Range and hosted within the late Paleoproterozoic Plain Creek Formation (McNamara Group). Both samples are from the MOUNT DRUMMOND 1:250 000 map-sheet, north-eastern Northern Territory and were collected as part of EFTF helicopter-based field operations and ground mapping during May 2018.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2020-08-27
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-09-16T05:03:27
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144186
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2020.023
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Carson, C.J.
Author Henson, P.A.
Author Boreham, C.J.
Author Jarrett, A.J.M.
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Record
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GA Record 2020/023
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Data release
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
Point of contact Grosjean, E.
MEG Internal Contact
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- 2020-04-01 2020-08-27
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- As needed
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
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EARTH SCIENCES
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EFTF
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Exploring for the Future
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Buddycurrawa Volcanics
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Plain Creek Formation
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Fluid Inclusions
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Petroleum
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Manganese
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Download the Record (pdf) [7.5 MB]
Download the Record (pdf) [7.5 MB]
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pdf
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This Product is a data release from the South Nicholson EFTF Onshore Energy Systems program. Samples collected during on-ground fieldwork in May 2018. Samples analysed by Schlumberger USA.
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Grosjean, E.
MEG Internal Contact
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GA publication: GA Record
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
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- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
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- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551