Authors / CoAuthors
Costelloe, M.T.
Abstract
Airborne Electromagnetic data were acquired by Geoscience Australia in areas considered to have potential for uranium or thorium mineralisation under the Australian Government's Onshore Energy Security Program (OESP). The surveys have been managed and interpreted by Geoscience Australia's Airborne Electromagnetic Acquisition and Interpretation project. Government of South Australia Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE), formerly the Department of Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), which changed name in October 2011 purchased infill. Three survey areas were recognised in the Frome AEM survey area and Cariewerloo traverses. Industry paid for infill - all of this data has now been released to the public domain and is available at the GA website. In contrast to industry style deposit scale investigations, these surveys are designed to reveal new geological information at regional scale. The Frome airborne electromagnetic data were acquired at line spacing's of between one and five kilometres, a total of 32 317 line km and covers an area of 95 450 km squared. The outcomes of the Frome AEM survey include mapping of subsurface geological features that are associated with unconformity-related, sandstone-hosted and palaeovalley-hosted uranium mineralisation. The data are also capable of interpretation for other commodities including metals and potable water as well as for landscape evolution studies. The improved understanding of the regional geology resulting from the Pine Creek survey results will be of considerable benefit to mining and mineral exploration companies. This Data Package is for Archive to the internal area of the CDS and contains all data, grids, images, mxd, shape files, documentation, licenses, agreements, interpretations and scripts used to create the Frome deliverables. At the projects completion (2012) all directories are required to be moved off the NAS. The reason to keep all the files is that more work is to be done on this data in the 2012-2015 period and these files may be needed in this future work.
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dataset
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74602
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Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
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- Data Package
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- AEM
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- Airborne Electromagnetics
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- geophysics
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- mineral exploration
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- AU-WA
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Earth Sciences
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- Published_Internal
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2012-01-01T00:00:00
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The AEM survey data were acquired by the airborne geophysical survey contractors Fugro Airborne Surveys. The inversion data were processed and produced by the authors, and details are provided in the attached report. The data was inverted, delivered to the public domain as a part of the OESP. An interpretation report was created. This data is all the information that fed into the final interpretation.
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[-22.4, -20.0, 120.6, 122.6]
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