Published estimates for heavy metal emissions from the copper-nickel industry on the Kola Peninsula are re-examined in the light of: a) Official emission figures for 1994, b) Modelled emissions based on dry and wet deposition estimates based on data from snow and rain samples collected in 1994 and c) Chemical data on the composition of the ores. The modelled emissions, official emission figures and chemical data are mutually compatible for Ni, Cu and Co and show that previously published figures underestimated the emissions of the major elements, Ni and Cu (though within the same order of magnitude) and overestimated the emissions of As, Pb, Sb and Zn by up to several orders of magnitude, in some cases exceeding the calculated total input to the plants. Published estimates have neglected information on the nature and chemistry of the ores processed in metallurgical industries in the Noril-sk area of Siberia and the Urals. Revised emission estimates for 1994, using knowledge of the chemistry of the ores, are proposed: taken with published information on total emissions up to 2000 these data give an indication of emission levels in more recent years.

Beginning in the Archean, the continent of Australia evolved to its present configuration through the accretion and assembly of several smaller continental blocks and terranes at its margins. Australia usually grew by convergent plate margin processes, such as arc-continent collision, continent-continent collision or through accretionary processes at subduction zones. The accretion of several island arcs to the Australian continent, through arc-continent collisions, played an important role in this process, and the geodynamic implications of some Archean and Proterozoic island arcs recognised in Australia will be discussed here.

New and existing Sm-Nd whole rock isotope data and U-Pb zircon ages from sedimentary rocks in several Australian Proterozoic Provinces hosting Zn-Pb mineralisation show a distinct transition that corresponds to a change from evolved sediment sources to more juvenile sedimentary sources at ~1650 Ma. This Sm-Nd isotopic change has been documented in the Eastern and Western Successions of the Mount Isa Inlier, the Etheridge Province of the Georgetown Inlier. A similar transition at ~1650 Ma has also been documented in the Broken Hill and Olary Domains of the Curnamona Province (Barovich and Hand 2008) and defines a continental-scale isotopic signal. The world-class, sediment-hosted Mt Isa and Hilton-George Fisher Zn-Pb Mt Isa-style deposits in the Western Mount Isa Inlier occur above the transition in sediments derived from more juvenile sources. In contrast, Pb-Zn-Ag Broken Hill-style deposits, including the Broken Hill (Curnamona), Cannington (Isa), Mount Misery (now Chloe) and Railway Flat deposits (Georgetown Inlier) (Carr et al. 2004) occur below this ~1650 Ma transition in sediments which have a much more evolved source.

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This product is the single largest AGSO funded stream sediment geochemical data set available in Australia. The data covers roughly 80 000 square kilometres of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic north Queensland and contains 235 914 analyses of 8752 samples. This product also includes PDF files of the associated reports and atlases.

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This project is based on the recognition that combinations of specific granite types and distinctive host rocks tend to be associated with certain types of Au, Cu, Zn, Pb, Sn and W mineralisation. Rarely is Proterozoic mineralisation hosted by granites themselves, for the most part being hosted in the country rock, often three or more kilometres from the nearest known granite. There is an apparent host rock control on the deposition of metals: this can be both compositional and also controlled by the competency of the host lithologies. This compositional host rock control has been documented by Stuart-Smith et al. (1993 - Geology and mineral deposits of the Cullen Mineral field, AGSO Bull. 229) for the Pine Creek Inlier and noted in the eastern Mount Isa Inlier by Wyborn and Heinrich (1993 - The relationship between late-tectonic felsic intrusives and Cu-Au mineralisation in the Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Trans Royal Soc Edinburgh, Earth Sci, 83, 201-209). This project collated data on the Proterozoic granites and their comagmatic volcanics, the mineralogical composition of the rocks that they intrude and briefly assessed the style and type of mineralisation present within 5 kms of an outcrop of granite. All data collated in the reports is built into the accompanying GIS, and essentially each item listed in the report is converted into a searchable item within the GIS. This project has aimed to provide the data and interpretations to show the following: 1) Which Proterozoic granites have metallogenic potential, 2) What commodities they are likely to be associated with, and 3) Where the better host rocks are located that are likely to host potential mineralisation. <p>Related material<a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=33388">The metallogenic potential of Australian Proterozoic granites. GA Record 2001/012.</a></p>