MinEx CRC news
The recent MinEx CRC Kapunda CT Drilling Trials in association with EnviroCopper feature in the January edition of Australasian Drilling Magazine. Download the editorial here.
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Our Annual Report has now been submitted to AusIndustry and is available via the Publications page of our website. Please note, this report is submitted in line with the government guidelines provided. A condensed version will be released shortly titled the ‘MinEx CRC 2021 Year in Review’.
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To meet its vision, it is a requirement for MinEx CRC to exchange research and development ideas across broad disciplines with a range of people of diverse views through open and respectful dialogue at face-to-face and online meetings, conferences, and field and drilling activities. MinEx CRC is committed to an ethos of equal opportunity and…
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Complementing advanced trials of the MinEx CRC CT rig, conventional drilling in the Delamerian NDI has completed its first conventional drillhole (NDIAW_D01). In the basement a medium-grained, undeformed porphyritic granodiorite and medium to coarse-grained granite with abundant mafic inclusions are the dominant lithologies. K-Feldspar and chlorite alteration are prevalent, surrounding steeply-dipping veins and fractures throughout the intersection,…
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MinEx CRC welcomes new Affiliate, the University of Tasmania (CODES), to the team. MinEx CRC postgraduate student Richard Hill will be supervised by CODES and focus his studies on the East Tennant NDI area with his PhD titled ‘Exploring the East Tennant region: Unravelling the crustal architecture, tectonic evolution and mineral systems potential of an…
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Geochem results from the MinExCRC NT National Drilling Initiative (NDI) Campaign in collaboration with Industry Northern Territory and Geoscience Australia are now available. NDI Carrara 1 is a deep stratigraphic drill hole completed in 2020 as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and the Northern Territory Geological…
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As you are aware, the 2021 MinEx CRC Annual Conference will now be held in an ‘online’ and ‘in-person hub’ capacity. As per our format in 2020, we are offering multiple options by which you can attend. Online Only In-person – WA hub In-person – SA hub In-person – ACT hub. Key events are summarised as…
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We are pleased to advise drilling has now officially commenced at our National Drilling Initiative (NDI) Delamerian Orogen Campaign in collaboration with Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia The Cambrian-Ordovician Delamerian Orogen is an arcuate orogenic belt with a strike length of approximately 15,000 km, encompassing eastern South Australia, western New South Wales, western Victoria and…
Read MoreMGPalaeo is a leading biostratigraphic and sedimentological service provider to the Australasian energy sector. With more than 35 years’ experience, their palynological zonation scheme is used Australia-wide to enable consistent and trusted stratigraphic control. This zonation scheme also forms the basis to their AUSTRALIS geological database, a comprehensive data package for the geoscientist that provides…
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Congratulations to Dr Adrienne Brotodewo and Saurabh Pandit. Adrienne completed her PhD at University of South Australia on a project investigating the use of zircon chemistry in exploration for iron oxide-copper-gold deposits. Adrienne’s project was supported by the Geological Survey of South Australia. Saurabh completed his Masters degree on a project where he undertook 3D…
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