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AusLAMP - mapping lithospheric architecture and mineral potential in central and eastern Australia

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The Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) is a collaborative national survey between federal government, state/territory governments and research organisations. The project aims to acquire long-period magnetotelluric (MT) data at half-degree spacing (~55 km) across the Australian continent. AusLAMP started in 2013 and has completed about 1500 stations (~50% of total planned stations) to date. Over the last decade, regional-scale AusLAMP resistivity/conductivity models have been produced following data acquisition campaigns, but there is a strong demand for a single model. We produced a resistivity model from 1260 AusLAMP stations incorporating 85% of data acquired to date. The new AusLAMP resistivity model shows significant variations of resistivity at varying depths from a few kilometres to a couple of hundred kilometres in the crust and upper mantle. The model resolves the first-order resistivity structure of the Australian lithosphere across most parts of central and eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The resolved resistivity structures allow seamless interpretation across states and regions, broadly conform with identified major geological domains and crustal boundaries, and reveal significant variations within geological provinces, orogens and cratons. There are also strong spatial associations between crustal/mantle conductors and copper and gold deposits and carbonatites, which provide further evidence that major lithospheric conductors control the distributions of a range of mineral systems. This evidence aligns well with the conceptual model of mineral systems, that convecting mantle fluid and metal-rich magma can migrate into the crust through weak zones to form some ore deposits in the lithosphere. This new AusLAMP model demonstrates that long-period MT data are an important first-order reconnaissance dataset to resolve large-scale lithospheric architecture and provides a powerful tool with a bottom-up approach to highlight potential exploration areas, particularly in covered and under-explored regions.

Presented at the 2024 Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) Discover Symposium

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Title AusLAMP - mapping lithospheric architecture and mineral potential in central and eastern Australia
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/61ef0469-1895-406a-a068-a84bfe144b11
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Reference Period 22/10/2024
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.0, -44.0], [154.0, -44.0], [154.0, -9.0], [112.0, -9.0], [112.0, -44.0]]]}
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