TOUCHSTONES-GOLD® Collaborative Design
World R & D
Newer, well-funded or planned R & D on predictive or fundamental modeling efforts of major gold producers (some with Archean exposures) has been given renewed emphasis (local currencies or otherwise indicated, years as available).
Browse for "Archean gold" or visit the sites below to find out more. For physicochemical approaches to resolving geological system behaviour browse for "Physicochemical geology" or "Physicochemical metallogeny" . Send along your links by e-mail.
AUSTRALIA:
AMIRA International
Geoscience R & D ($1.8 million, 2006; $0.8 million, 2007; $2.9 million, 2008-2010, commits $6.8 million 2008, $8.02 million 2009; latest $7.3 million of projects 2009-2012 listed below)
Spectral IP for 3D mineral discrimination: Phase 1 ($0.4 million, July 2011-December 2012)
Predictive Geochemistry in Areas of Transported Overburden II ($1.4 million, November 2010-November 2013; 1.4 million, May 2006-May 2009)
West African Exploration Initiative - Stage 2 ($2.9 million, March 2010-March 2011)
Application of New Technologies to Gold Deposits ($0.6 million, February 2010-February 2013)
Mineral Chemistry Applied to the Characterization and Exploration of Ore Deposits ($0.6 million, January 2009-January 2012)
Cooperative Research Centre for Predictive Mineral Discovery ($107.6 million, 2001/2 - 2007/8)
CSIRO
-Minerals Down Under Flagship (CSIRO research in exploration, mining, mineral processing, minerals-related sustainability and metal production is now managed by the Minerals Down Under Flagship Program with combined research expenditure 2009–10: $77.5 million)
-Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals Group expenditure (excluding Flagships) 2009–10: $113.6 million
-CSIRO remains the largest single participant in the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program (including Deep Exploration Technologies CRC, see below)
Source: CSIRO Annual Report 2009–10 http://www.csiro.au/resources/Annual-Report-2009-10.html
Computation geoscience, Geology and geochemistry, Mineral and environmental sensing:
Hyperspectral logging of geological materials
National geoscience data infrastructure
3D to 4D mapping and modelling platforms
New detection tools
Mineral systems and targeting
Education training, technology transfer and collaboration
GEMOC, ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University ($2.6 million, 2009; $2.96 million, 2008; $2.4 million, 2006, as total GEMOC income)
Research
GEMOC EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY/ROCK DEFORMATION GROUP
GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA - Concluded Projects
Mineral Potential of Australia Project (This project concluded on 30 June 2006)
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY- ECONOMIC GEOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT /Research/PhD Research Opportunities
MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIAN CRUSTAL RESEARCH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CENTRE FOR GLOBAL METALLOGENY, CENTRE FOR EXPLORATION TARGETING ($2 million, 2006-)
http://www.cet.uwa.edu.au/
Gold Mineral Systems
Progressive Risk and Value Assessment
CANADA
NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA, Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), Geological Survey of Canada, Mineral Resources Division,
Targeted Geoscience Initiative-4: Increasing Deep Exploration Effectiveness ($25-million, 2011-2015)
EXTECH III project ($0.5 million, 1999-2001)
THE CANADIAN MINING INNOVATION COUNCIL
CANADIAN MINING INDUSTRY RESEACH ORGANIZATION (CAMIRO)
Geology Projects, Current & Completed
Proposals Being Circulated
Survey
MANITOBA INDUSTRY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MINES, MANITOBA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Operation Superior (1996-2002)
ONTARIO
MINISTRY OF NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT AND MINES (MNDM), Ontario Mineral Exploration Technologies "OMET" Program ($8 million, 2001-2004)
(Completed)
DISCOVER ABITIBI INITIATIVE ($12 million, 2003-2006; $148 million proprietary data value to 2004)
LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY, MINERAL EXPLORATION RESEARCH CENTRE (MERC)
BRITISH COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, MINERAL DEPOSITS REEARCH UNIT (MDRU, $1.8 million, 2008)-
RUSSIA
INSTITUTE OF ORE DEPOSITS GEOLOGY, PETROGRAPHY, MINERALOGY & GEOCHEMISTRY
Korzhinskii Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Analysis of Endogenic Processes
Scientific Projects and Grants
SOUTH AFRICA
UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND
Centre for Applied Mining and Exploration Geology
Economic Geology Research Institute
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :
US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Quantitative Assessment, Undiscovered Mineral Deposits ($12.1-11.7 million per annum, FY 2006-2010)
Mineral Resources External Research Program MRERP
Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources (1.0 million, FY2007)
Advanced Resource Assessment Methods
Probabalistic Mineral Assessment Research & Development
Western Region Gold Deposits (Paleozoic-Mesozoic-Tertiary, Devonian; Carlin-type systems, Great Basin)
Mineral Systems of Siberia, Mongolia, Northeastern China, South Korea, and Japan (Northeast Asia); A Collaborative Project by Russian Academy of Sciences,
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Changchun University of Earth Sciences, the Geological Survey of Japan, and the U.S. Geological Survey
Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Mineral Resources
International:
Data Metallogenica
Selected Journals and Publications
Here, recent abstracts and publications are regularly reviewed on the basis of relevance to important components and processes of Archean silicate systems and gold metallogeny.
These themes may be focused, regular or occasional in the respective journals:
Chemical Geology
Occasional articles on important components and processes of Archean (and other) silicate systems can found at:
Chemical Physics
Occasional articles on silicate (polymer) systems and regular articles on other polymer system modelling:
Computers & Geosciences
Occasional articles on computational methods (for example equlibrium gas speciation in volcanic and laboratory conditions; stress-induced fault slip; 3-D modeling) add a quantitative focus and may have direct application to Archean silicate systems research:
G-Cubed , Electronic Journal of the Earth Sciences
G3 publications focus on Earth as a system, including physics and chemistry of the solid Earth, its hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere; Earth's relationships to other planets, and to the solar system . The journal also highlights advances in modeling for the earth sciences generally.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Occasional theoretical and laboratory treatments of silicate systems (e.g. mineral surface complexation, charge density distribution, monomer- Me---O - oxide surface protonation, related models; e.g. silicate behaviour in presence of specific volatiles to magmatic temperatures);
Geology of Ore Deposits (Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii)
Articles on metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources with some special interests in conditions of their formation and distribution; distribution pattern of metallogenic zones and mineral deposits; localization conditions; physicochemical parameters, evolution of oreforming systems; economic problems of ore districts and deposits development.
Journal of Geochemical Exploration
Among other themes, occasional articles dealing with alteration (and related indices) in gold-bearing districts can be found in this journal:
Precambrian Research
Publications on Archean tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry and petrology are regularly featured in this journal along with others on Proterozoic geology.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Regular articles on polymer, polymer solution theory with some implication for (polymerized ) silicate systems. Occasional themes of interest may include entropy flux-heat flux modeling (e.g. far-from-equilibrium systems); coupled complex amplitude oscillator behaviour in lattices:
Last updated: August 19, 2011
