Hunting high and low: mapping ancient topography to find copper

高低狩猎：绘制古代地形以寻找铜

• 批准号: IE230100098
• 负责人: Dr Nicky Wright
• 金额: $ 29.04万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Early Career Industry Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/IE230100098
• 关键词: Hunting; low; mapping; ancient; topography

Transitioning to a decarbonised society requires significant amounts of copper; however, preventing a systems-based exploration approach for copper is the lack of a first-order dataset of the Earth’s surface evolution, known as palaeogeography. This project aims to unearth potential areas of porphyry copper through deep time by developing innovative global palaeogeography reconstructions. Expected outcomes of this project include new quantitative palaeogeography reconstructions, as well as the first well-constrained reconstructions of copper preservation potential. This should provide benefits such as an improved understanding of the porphyry copper lifecycle, with significant impacts for resource exploration and decarbonisation efforts.

过渡到脱碳社会需要大量的铜;然而，阻碍基于系统的铜勘探方法的是缺乏地球表面演化的一阶数据集，即古地理学。该项目旨在通过开发创新的全球古地理重建来挖掘斑岩铜矿的潜在区域。该项目的预期成果包括新的定量古地理重建，以及铜保存潜力的首次良好约束重建。这将带来诸多好处，例如提高对斑岩铜生命周期的理解，并对资源勘探和脱碳工作产生重大影响。