Cu Prospectivity – Stuart Shelf, SA

Exploration for sediment-hosted Cu is often hindered by lack of basin-wide data on structural architecture and sedimentological facies variations of prospective stratigraphic successions. In this project we will provide a fundamental dataset to aid exploration targeting.

The Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO had a joint collaboration project (2020-2023) in order to promote mineral exploration for sediment-hosted Cu mineralisation in the highly prospective Neoproterozoic Stuart Shelf in South Australia.

The project aimed to provide a fundamental dataset that can be used to refine exploration targeting for sediment-hosted Cu mineralisation by using a combination of key horizon mapping, sequence stratigraphy, geophysical interpretation, geochemical and mineralogical alteration and redox mapping as well as basin evolution. This Stuart Shelf (including Torrents Hinge Zone) dataset will be a basin-wide correlation of stratigraphic units and key stratigraphic surfaces within the overall basin architecture and structural context.

Recent updates on the project can be found here: https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/geological-survey/gssa-projects/sedcu