Overview

This project acquires, processes and interprets pre-competitive geoscience information associated with energy resources in selected provinces and basins across Australia to identify prospectivity and promote new data and results to industry, in partnership with State and Northern Territory Geological Surveys.

The aim of this project is an increased investment in exploration for onshore energy resources, including geothermal, uranium, thorium and hydrocarbons, in selected provinces and basins across Australia, to improve discovery rates for onshore energy resources.

Each year the project will focus in a different area:

• Mount Isa-Georgetown-Charters Towers, Queensland in 2008-09
• Gawler-Curnamona, South Australia in 2009-10
• Amadeus-Arunta-Georgina, Northern Territory in 2010-11
• Northern Western Australia in 2011-12.

Current Status of Projects and Products

Mount Isa-Georgetown-Charters Towers

Interpretation and release of seismic and MT data

• Interpretation of Mount Isa Seismic surveys - Presentations from the Mount Isa Crustal Seismic Workshop, Mount Isa, 24 June 2008.
• Interpretation of North Queensland Seismic and MT surveys - Presentations from the North Queensland Seismic and MT Workshop, Townsville, June 2009.

3D geological and geophysical maps

• Rock property data (densities and magnetic susceptibilities) of the Mount Isa region consisting of 442 samples containing density and/or magnetic susceptibility measurements.
• Basement Geology of Northern Queensland map and Basement Geology of Northern Queensland GIS Dataset.
• Depth to Basement of Northwest Queensland map.
• 3D map and supporting geophysical studies in the North Queensland region - Geoscience Australia Record 2009/029.
• 3D map and supporting geophysical studies in the North Queensland region - 3D data.

Geodynamic and metallogenic synthesis in a time-space framework

• Geodynamic Synthesis of the North Queensland region and Implications for Metallogeny - Geoscience Australia Record 2009/030.

Assessment of energy systems potential of selected regions

• An assessment of the uranium and geothermal potential of north Queensland - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/014.

Acquisition of other data

• New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from north Queensland, 2007–2010 - Geoscience Australia Record 2011/38.
  

Gawler-Curnamona

Interpretation and release of seismic and MT data

• Interpretation of the southern Gawler-Curnamona region Seismic and MT surveys - Extended abstracts from the South Australia Seismic and MT Workshop 2010 - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/010.
• Interpretation of the southern Gawler-Curnamona region Seismic and MT surveys - Presentations from the South Australia Seismic and MT Workshop 2010.

3D geological and geophysical maps

• ASTER GIS products from the southern Gawler-Curnamona region, South Australia - A collaborative project between CSIRO and Geoscience Australia.
• 3D Map and Supporting Geophysical Studies in the Gawler Craton and Curnamona Province - 3D data.
• Depth to magnetic basement map of the Gawler-Curnamona region, South Australia.

Geodynamic and metallogenic synthesis in a time-space framework

• Geodynamic Synthesis of the Gawler Craton and Curnamona Province - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/027.

Assessment of energy systems potential of selected regions

• An assessment of the uranium and geothermal prospectivity of east central South Australia.

Acquisition of other data

• New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the Gawler Craton and Curnamona Province, South Australia, 2008-10 - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/016.
• Investigation of drill holes in the vicinity of the 08GA-C1 seismic line in the Curnamona Province, South Australia - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/021.

Gawler-Officer-Musgrave-Amadeus (GOMA)

Interpretation and release of seismic and MT data

• Interpretation of the GOMA (Gawler-Officer-Musgrave-Amadeus) Seismic and MT survey - Extended abstracts from the GOMA Seismic and MT Workshop 2010 - Geoscience Australia Record 2010/039.
• Interpretation of the GOMA (Gawler-Officer-Musgrave-Amadeus) Seismic and MT survey - Presentations from the GOMA Seismic and MT Workshop 2010.

Northern Territory

Interpretation and release of seismic and MT data

• Interpretation of the Georgina-Arunta Seismic and MT survey - Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) 2011. Record of Abstracts. NTGS Record 2011-003.

• Interpretation of the Georgina-Arunta Seismic and MT survey - Presentations from the Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) 2011.

Acquisition of other data

• New SHRIMP geochronology from the Arunta Region: 2009-2010 - Geoscience Australia Record 2011/014.

3D geological and geophysical maps

• 3D geophysical models and associated report to be released in late 2011.

Northern Western Australia

• Acquisition of seismic data in the Carnarvon Basin and the Yilgarn-Office-Musgrave region currently being planned.