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CSIRO Mineral Resources - Magmatic Sulfides Team

We are a small team focused on the targeting, detection and characterisation of magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt–platinum group element (PGE) deposits using geochemistry, petrology and mineralogy.

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Assimilation of Reduced Carbon Triggers platinum alloy saturation in mafic and ultramafic magmas [publication]

Abstract It is generally observed that magmatic sulfide ores have higher ratios of Pd/Pt than the mantle-like values of their […]

Mineral Mapping through a Ni-Cu Deposit – Internship [Video]

Layered intrusions can host several ore deposit types, including magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide deposits. Exploration of these deposits can be difficult […]

Prospecting with the Synchrotron – from hunting for rare minerals to exploring for new nickel deposits [Video]

Louise Schoneveld was invited by ANSTO to give this talk at the Australian Synchrotron Microscopy Beamlines workshop (online) in 2024. […]

Layered intrusions in the Precambrian: Observations and perspectives [publication]

Abstract Layered intrusions are plutonic bodies of cumulates that form by the crystallization of mantle-derived melts. These intrusions are characterized […]

Petrogenesis and Ni–Cu–(PGE) prospectivity of the Mount Ayliff Complex in the Karoo Igneous Province: new insights from the Ingeli and Horseshoe lobes [publication]

The Mount Ayliff Complex comprises five cognate mafic-ultramafic bodies emplaced along the southern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton. This study […]

Sulfide and Fe-Ti-P liquid immiscibility in the Ni-Cu-Co ovoid deposit of the Voisey’s Bay complex [publication]

In the Voisey’s Bay complex, sulfide-matrix breccias developed through the percolation of dense sulfide melt, leading to the displacement of […]

A newly recognised mafic sill-hosted Ni-sulfide deposit in WA [publication]

The Cathedrals Ni-Cu prospect, located at the western margin of the Eastern Goldfields of the Yilgarn Craton, is hosted within […]

How useful is pyroxene for exploring for nickel? [publication]

Chromium-zoning patterns in pyroxene from the economically significant Ni-Cu sulfide deposits at Nova-Bollinger (Western Australia) and Kevitsa (Northern Finland) were […]

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