Commodity experience by deposit type or mineralisation style

Aluminium: lateritic, bauxite

  • Bamaga area, Cape York, Queensland

Copper: (± Au ± Mo) Porphyry-type

  • Cordilleran Chile, Argentina and Peru
  • Mexico, Philippines, Dominican Republic, SE Queensland

Copper-Gold: IOCG type

  • Eastern Succession of Mount Isa Inlier (detailed work on the drilling of and geochemical dispersions of the Ernest Henry deposit)
  • Olary Block and eastern Gawler Craton of South Australia
  • Iron Belt of Chile; La Pampa province of Argentina; Durango and Oaxaca (Mexico)

Copper: Syntectonic and/or Sediment-hosted

  • Mount Isa Cu deposit (detailed petrologic work) and district exploration
  • Western Succession of Mount Isa Inlier
  • Einasleigh Cu deposit, Georgetown Block of NE Queensland
  • Namibia, for Zambian-style sediment-hosted Cu

Gold: Epithermal (stockwork, lode and alluvial)

  • Drummond Basin of eastern Qld; Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW
  • Northern Nevada (also Carlin-style systems); Sinaloa and Chiapas (Mexico)
  • Neuquen, Rio Negro, Santa Cruz, Catamarca and Salta provinces (Argentina)
  • Mongolia (north and southeast)

Gold: Intrusion-Related/Mesothermal Vein/Metamorphic Lode Au (polymetallic)

  • New England & Central Lachlan Fold Belts, NSW

Iron: Rapitan type, magnetite

  • Hawsons Iron Project, Adelaide Fold Belt, Broken Hill region, NSW

Lead-Zinc-Silver: Sediment-hosted

  • Mount Isa-Hilton-George Fisher deposits and district exploration
  • Western Succession of Mount Isa Inlier
  • MacArthur River Zn deposit and district exploration
  • Georgetown Block (N Qld) with BHT Zn mineralisation
  • Broken Hill district, with BHT mineralisation

Polymetallic VMS (Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag)

  • Bayan Airag deposit and district (western Mongolia)

Nickel: orthomagmatic, intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE

  • Thompson region (Manitoba); Sudbury Basin (Ontario)
  • Broken Hill Block & Koonenberry Belt, western NSW

Nickel: lateritic

  • Goro deposit and district (New Caledonia)

Tin: magmatic hydrothermal, greisen/pegmatite-hosted

  • Euriowie Sn field resource assessment and district evaluation (Broken Hill, NSW)

Tungsten: magmatic hydrothermal, stratabound scheelite

  • Yanco Glen W deposit drill-out and district exploration (Broken Hill, NSW)

Uranium

  • Syntectonic (?)  Mary Kathleen-style, Cloncurry region, NW Queensland
  • Unconformity type, Central Mineral Belt, Labrador, Canada