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National mineral potential assessment for sediment-hosted copper mineral systems in Australia Version 1.0

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Created 14/01/2025

Updated 14/01/2025

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Sediment-hosted copper (Cu) mineral systems are important sources of base metals and critical minerals such as cobalt that are vital to delivering Australia’s low-carbon economy. In Australia, sediment-hosted Cu resources account for ~11% of the total Cu resources. Given their significance to the Australian economy, national-scale mineral potential models for sediment-hosted Cu have been developed. In addition to the potential for sediment-hosted Cu mineralisation, the uncertainty related to data availability has been examined. Three mineral potential models derived from the combination of two mineral systems have been derived from a large volume of precompetitive geoscience data combined with mineral systems expertise, each using a different combination of input maps to assess the influence of incomplete data on the results. The mineral potential models successfully predict the location of major sediment-hosted stratiform Cu and Mount Isa-type Cu deposits while highlighting new areas of elevated prospectivity in under-explored regions of Australia, reducing the exploration search space by up to ~84%.

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Title National mineral potential assessment for sediment-hosted copper mineral systems in Australia Version 1.0
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/1dd71d68-2273-4a49-9af0-eaee1418ed99
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Geoscience Australia
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 10/08/2023
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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