Experimental constraints on Platinum-Group Element geochemistry: developing lithogeochemical exploration tools for nickel-sulfides in mafic and ultramafic systems

铂族元素地球化学的实验限制：开发镁铁质和超镁铁质体系中硫化镍的岩石地球化学勘探工具

• 批准号: LP0669595
• 负责人: Prof Mark Barley
• 金额: $ 11.08万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-03-29 至 2009-03-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0669595
• 关键词: Experimental; constraints; Platinum; Group; Element

Nickel contributes approximately $2 billion per year to Australia's export income. Currently 80% of that is coming from sulfide deposits, which are expected to be exhausted within thirty years barring significant new discoveries. Discovery rates have been declining for two decades, as the 'easy' targets have been found, despite a broad increase in nickel exploration expenditure to current levels of around $50 million per year. There is a pressing need for new data sets and techniques to allow industry to target new discoveries based on limited drill sampling of potential host rocks. This project forms part of a broader program to harness the igneous geochemistry of the platinum group elements as a powerful pathfinder in nickel exploration.

镍每年为澳大利亚的出口收入贡献约20亿美元。目前，其中80%来自硫化物矿床，除非有重大的新发现，否则这些矿床预计将在30年内枯竭。尽管镍矿勘探支出已大幅增加至目前每年约5000万美元的水平，但随着“容易”的目标被发现，镍矿的发现率在过去20年里一直在下降。目前迫切需要新的数据集和技术，以使工业界能够基于有限的潜在宿主岩石钻探取样来确定新的发现。该项目是利用铂族元素的火成岩地球化学作为镍勘探的强大探路者的更广泛计划的一部分。