EGRU Contribution 69

Abstract Volume

FUTORES II Conference

Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Townsville, Australia

4 -7 June 2017

Edited by:

Jan Marten Huizenga, Zhaoshan Chang, Carl Spandler, Kaylene Camuti, Maree Corkeron, Eric Roberts, Arianne Ford, Christa Placek, Alexander Parker

FUTORES II Conference2017

Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Abstract Volume

EGRU Contribution 69

4-7 June 2017Townsville Queensland

Australia

Edited by:

Jan Marten Huizenga, Zhaoshan Chang, Carl Spandler, Kaylene Camuti, Maree Corkeron, Eric Roberts, Arianne Ford, Christa Placek, Alexander Parker

Hosted by:Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU)

James Cook UniversityTownsville, Queensland

James Cook University

FUTORES II Conference

(Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability)

Townsville, Queensland, Australia4-7 June 2017

Conference Organising Committee:Zhaoshan Chang, ChairJudy BottingKaylene CamutiMaree CorkeronArianne FordJan Marten HuizengaChrista PlaczekEric RobertsTrevor ShawCarl SpandlerNoel White

Abstract Volume:Jan Marten HuizengaAlexander Parker

Published by:Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU)James Cook UniversityTownsville, QLD 4811 Australia

Enquiries:egru@jcu.edu.au

ISSN 0816 780 XISBN 978-0-9954470-3-5

© James Cook University

Front cover designed by Robert Holm and Judy Botting. Centre and top photos courtesy of Robert Holm of Rocks Sand Dirt.

Conference Editorial Committee:Jan Marten HuizengaZhaoshan ChangCarl SpandlerKaylene CamutiMaree CorkeronEric RobertsArianne FordChrista PlaczekAlexander Parker

Introduction to the FUTORES II 2017 Abstract Volume

With the increasing world population and living standards the demand for mineral and energy resources continues to grow. Future exploration will need to target resources at increasing depths and in areas with cover, and will require an improved understanding of mineral and energy systems and advances in exploration methods and approaches. The Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU) at James Cook University has organized the FUTORES II conference to summarise recent developments in the exploration and understanding of major types of mineral deposits, to examine the key issues and techniques critical to future minerals and energy exploration, and to discuss the way forward. The conference is being held in tropical Townsville, Queensland, Australia, on 4-7 June 2017. It is following on from the inaugural and highly successful FUTORES conference held in Townsville in 2013.

FUTORES II will bring together researchers, explorers and government agencies to address issues related to the sustainable supply and utilisation of mineral and energy resources. The conference has three symposia: the David Groves Symposium - New Insights in Mineral Deposit Understanding, the New Technologies and Approaches in Mineral Exploration Symposium, and the Tectonics, Basins and Resources Symposium.

The conference is convened by EGRU, an organisation that was established in 1982 to strengthen the links between research and exploration, to promote exploration-oriented research, and to facilitate knowledge transfer. EGRU has a track record of organising successful major conferences to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas and to stimulate new ideas for cutting-edge research and exploration. The Hydrothermal Odyssey conference in 2001, and the STOMP (Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes) conference in 2005, both attracted over 200 participants. In 2009 EGRU collaborated with the SGA to host the tenth biennial SGA conference in Townsville - Smart Science for Exploration and Mining - which attracted over 480 delegates from around the world. In 2013 the first FUTORES conference attracted around 250 participants from 15 countries. FUTORES II is looking to be equally successful and has so far attracted around 265 registrants.

This conference abstract volume contains 134 abstracts covering a wide range of topics related to mineral and energy resources, tectonics and metallogenesis. The abstracts have been reviewed and edited by the Editorial Committee and, in this volume, are organised in alphabetical order of the first author. We thank the delegates for their abstracts and the reviewers for ensuring the quality of the abstract volume.

EGRU would like to acknowledge the support of the College of Science and Engineering, Division of Tropical Science and Environment, at James Cook University. We are also grateful for the support of our conference sponsors: Mount Isa Mines (a Glencore company), South32, Newmont, HiSeis, and Geoscience Australia. The generous assistance of our industry and professional association supporters is also gratefully acknowledged: SEG, SGA, Aranz Geo, AusIMM, Evolution Mining, Carpentaria Gold / Resolute Mining, Minjar Gold, Consolidated Tin Mines, Auctus Minerals, Lantana Exploration and Wolfram Camp Mining.

Zhaoshan ChangChair, FUTORES II Conference Committee22 May 2017

Table of Contents (Alphabetically ordered by first author’s surname)

Future trends in geochemical exploration through transported cover .............................. 1

R.R. Anand ...................................................................................................................................... 1 3D mapping of fluid/rock interaction using oxygen stable isotopes, Mount Isa, Northwest Queensland, Australia ..................................................................................... 2

B.S. Andrew, S.L.L. Baker, R. Lilly ...................................................................................................... 2 Early-stage porphyry Cu-Au exploration: adding value to regional stream sediment surveys by studying fluid inclusions ................................................................................ 3

A. Arribas, M. Bennett, T. Monecke, J. Reynolds, N. Kelly ....................................................................... 3 Geochemical footprint of the Bulldog Shale, Eromanga Basin, Australia: the tyranny of cover ................................................................................................................................ 4

E. Baudet, C. Forbes, D. Giles, S. Hill .................................................................................................. 4 How can implicit modelling assist in speeding up the geological modelling process? ...... 5

C. Baxter ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Cu-Au fertility of arc volcanic rocks – A case study of the early Permian Lizzie Creek Volcanics, NE Queensland, Australia ................................................................................ 6

H. Behnsen, C. Spandler, I. Corral, Z. Chang, P.H.G.M. Dirks ................................................................. 6 What do continental reconstruction tell you about mineral systems? .............................. 7

P.G. Betts, R. Armit, L. Ailleres ........................................................................................................... 7 High-resolution facies analysis and an unusual paleogeography for the Precipice Sandstone (Early Jurassic, Surat Basin) ........................................................................... 8

V. Bianchi, J. Esterle ......................................................................................................................... 8 Geophysical interpretation and modelling of the 3D structural architecture of the Batten Fault Zone, south-eastern McArthur Basin ....................................................................... 9

T. Blaikie, M. Kunzmann .................................................................................................................... 9 Timing, evolution and sources of magmatism associated with the Ardlethan Tin Mine, NSW Australia: a zircon based U-Pb, O, Hf and trace element study. ............................. 10

P.L. Blevin, A.I.S. Kemp, I.S. Williams, S. Bodorkos .............................................................................10 Aspects of practical implementation of portable XRF in exploration .............................. 11

A. Brown ........................................................................................................................................11 GSQ-GSNSW-GA Southern Thomson drilling program .................................................... 12

D.D. Brown, D.J. Purdy, I.C. Roach ....................................................................................................12 Transport of metals in hydrothermal fluids .................................................................... 13

J. Brugger, B. Etschmann, Y. Mei, W. Liu ............................................................................................13 U-Pb geochronology of apatite and calcite at the Ernest Henry Deposit, NW Queensland: Implications for hydrothermal evolution and ore genesis. ............................................. 14

B.W. Cave, R. Lilly, S. Glorie .............................................................................................................14 Advances in Tasmanide tectonics – the giant Lachlan Orocline, a new predictive concept for eastern Australian mineral exploration under cover ................................................. 15

R.A. Cayley .....................................................................................................................................15 Sn-W-Mo Mineralisation in NE Queensland, Australia .................................................... 16

Z. Chang, G. Clarke, Y. Cheng,J. Poblete, K. Liu ..................................................................................16

Geodynamic setting of epithermal-porphyry mineralisation in northern Bowen Basin, NE Queensland, Australia .................................................................................................... 17

Z. Chang, I. Corral, P. Dirks, C. Spandler,R. Henderson, F. Sahlström ....................................................17 Geology and mineralization of the Mt Carbine Tungsten Deposit, Northern Queensland, Australia ........................................................................................................................ 18

Y. Cheng, Z. Chang, J.M. Huizenga ....................................................................................................18 The volcanic-plutonic connection and fertility of highly evolved magma systems: a case study from the Herberton Sn-W-Mo mineral field, Queensland ...................................... 19

Y. Cheng, C. Spandler, Z. Chang, G. Clarke.........................................................................................19 Evolving exploration models for epithermal Au-Ag deposits in the Hauraki Goldfield, New Zealand .......................................................................................................................... 20

A.B. Christie ....................................................................................................................................20 Mineralization and textural controls on primary gold deposits in the Siguiri Basin, Guinea ...................................................................................................................................... 21

M. Cissé, X. Lv, T.J. Algeo .................................................................................................................21 Age-dating of igneous rocks embedded with, and later intruding the Rangal Coal Measures at Hail Creek Coal Mine, North-east Bowen Basin ........................................... 22

G.W. Clarke, H. Zwingmann, R. Wormald, M. Tonelli ............................................................................22 Geology of the Tommy Creek Domain and associated rare earth element mineralisation ...................................................................................................................................... 23

R.A. Coleman, C. Spandler ................................................................................................................23 Tectonic geography and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic petroleum-bearing Roper Group, McArthur Basin ................................................................................................... 24

A.S. Collins, B. Yang, T. Smith, T.J. Munson, B. Schoemaker, J. Farkas, G. Cox .......................................24 Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposits .......................................................................................... 25

D.R. Cooke .....................................................................................................................................25 Application of high resolution seismic reflection to delineate low sulphidation epithermal vein systems – insights from Cracow ............................................................................. 26

J. Cook ...........................................................................................................................................26 Fertility assessment for Au-Cu of Late Carboniferous – Early Permian volcanic rocks of the Townsville – Bowen region, NE Queensland, Australia: a whole rock and zircon trace element geochemical approach ...................................................................................... 27

I. Corral, Z. Chang, C. Spandler, F. Sahlström, H. Behnsen ...................................................................27 The Capsize prospect, NE Queensland, Australia: geology, geochronology and geochemistry of a porphyry and associated lithocap ...................................................... 28

I. Corral, Z. Chang, F. Sahlström .......................................................................................................28 The dynamics of fluid pathways during injection-driven failure in high fluid flux regimes: insights from ore deposits, seismicity and numerical simulations .................................. 29

S.F. Cox, A. Flatten, D. Beck .............................................................................................................29 Does underground coal gasification (UCG) have a place in clean coal technology? ........ 31

C. Cuff, C. Rasmussen, M. Corkeron, A. Bush ......................................................................................31 Seafloor hydrothermal systems of intra-oceanic arcs: cradles for the formation of massive sulfide Cu-Au mineralization? ........................................................................... 32

C.E.J. de Ronde ...............................................................................................................................32 Petrography and mineralogy of the Wolverine HREE deposit, Browns Range, Western Australia ........................................................................................................................ 33

T. Nazari-Dehkordi, C. Spandler, N.H.S. Oliver, J. Chapman, R. Wilson ...................................................33

Double skarns and triple breccias – Geological evolution of the Mary Kathleen skarn system, NW Qld ............................................................................................................. 34

G.M. Derrick ....................................................................................................................................34 The Early Permian gold mineral system of Cape York, North Queensland, Australia ...... 35

C.R. Dhnaram, V.A. Lisitsin, F. E. von Gnielinski ..................................................................................35 Insights into the Mt Carlton Au-Cu mine (North Queensland) based on detailed structural mapping of the pits ........................................................................................................ 36

P.H.G.M. Dirks .................................................................................................................................36 Tectonic setting of a giant Archaen gold system – Geita Tanzania ................................. 37

P.H.G.M. Dirks, I.V. Sanislav, T.G. Blenkinsop .....................................................................................37 Pb-isotope signatures of the high sulfide Ag–Pb veins in the Broken Hill region: implications for metallogenesis ..................................................................................... 38

P.M. Downes, J.A. Fitzherbert ............................................................................................................38 The mineralogy and geochemistry of porphyry stocks and dykes and their significance to hydrothermal alteration and gold mineralisation at the Mt. Percy gold deposit, Golden Mile, Western Australia .................................................................................................. 39

J. Dunga, D. Sully, S.G. Hagemann ....................................................................................................39 The nature of the volcanic edifice associated with a modern SMS deposit: insights from the Solwara 1 Cu-Au ore deposit .................................................................................... 40

N. Dyriw, S. Bryan, S. Plunkett, J. Parianos, P. Crowhurst .....................................................................40 Productora Cu-Au-Mo deposit – a porphyry-related magmatic-hydrothermal breccia complex with local magnetite-apatite and porphyry mineralisation ............................... 41

A.J. Escolme, D.R. Cooke ..................................................................................................................41 Southern Cobar-type Cu-Au-Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation: turbidite-hosted intrusion-related mineralisation in central New South Wales .................................................................... 42

J.A. Fitzherbert, A.R. McKinnon, P.L. Blevin .........................................................................................42 Fit for purpose: A case study on the use of open file data vs. closed file data for GIS-based prospectivity analysis .......................................................................................... 43

A. Ford ...........................................................................................................................................43 A GIS-based prospectivity analysis case study for Sn-W mineralisation in north-east Queensland .................................................................................................................... 44

A. Ford ...........................................................................................................................................44 Sr, C and O isotope compositions of carbonates in the Ernest Henry deposit, Queensland, Australia: implications for genesis and exploration ....................................................... 45

M. Fuss, Z. Chang, C. Placzek, R. Lilly ................................................................................................45 Lithospheric architecture of the Yidun Terrane and its control on metal assemblages related to granitoid system in SE Tibet Plateau .............................................................. 46

X. Gao, L.-Q. Yang ...........................................................................................................................46 Australian carbonate systems: conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations ................................................................................................................ 47

A.D. George ....................................................................................................................................47 Tracing Australia’s metallogenic provinces under cover: unwrapping the tectonics and releasing the value ........................................................................................................ 48

D. Giles, R. Hillis, S. Soe, B. Harris ....................................................................................................48 Gold deposits in metamorphic rocks: new insights or steps backwards since FUTORES I? ...................................................................................................................................... 49

R.J. Goldfarb ...................................................................................................................................49

Is there an unrecognised c. 1800 Ma mineral system in the northern Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia? ........................................................................................................ 50

J.N. Guilliamse, T.J. Beardsmore .......................................................................................................50 Tectonic controls on mineralization in northeast Queensland ........................................ 51

B. Henderson ..................................................................................................................................51 The association between gold and pyrite trace element geochemistry at the Ernest Henry Deposit, NW Queensland ................................................................................................ 52

J.B. Hewett, R. Lilly ..........................................................................................................................52 Deep mining Queensland: a new view of structural-stratigraphic-magmatic, Cu-Au-Mo prospectivity in the southern Cloncurry Belt. ................................................................. 53

M. Hinman, T. Murphy, J. Donohue, M. Pirlo ........................................................................................53 Tectonics and metallogenesis of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands .................... 54

R.J. Holm, S. Tapster, H.A. Jelsma, G. Rosenbaum ..............................................................................54 Future by-product recovery of speciality trace metals from IOCGs ................................ 55

D.A. Holwell, S. Worbey, R.M. Lilly .....................................................................................................55 Accurate and precise zircon U-Pb dating by LA-ICP-MS and SIMS .................................. 56

H.Q. Huang .....................................................................................................................................56 Hydrothermal Au mineralisation caused by fluid decompression and cooling in dilatational cavities ........................................................................................................ 57

J.M. Huizenga, A.G. Parker................................................................................................................57 Spatial variations in the distribution of lead isotopes in the Tasmanides, eastern Australia: implications for tectonics, metallogeny and mineral exploration ................... 58

D.L. Huston, D.C. Champion, G. Morrison ...........................................................................................58 Tectonic setting, geochemistry, and mineralisation linked to mafic rocks in the Mount Isa Inlier .............................................................................................................................. 59

L.J. Hutton ......................................................................................................................................59 Breccia controls on the Red Dome Au-Cu-Ag skarn deposit, Chillagoe District, Far North Queensland, Australia .................................................................................................... 60

P. Illig, Z. Chang, J.Nethery ..............................................................................................................60 Copper porphyry mineralization in South Mongolia: metallogenesis and magmatism .... 61

S. Jargalan, B. Enkhjargal, D. Tormagnai, D. Altankhuyag ....................................................................61 Metallogeny of the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia ............................................... 62

S.P. Johnson, I.O.H. Fielding, B. Rasmussen, J-W. Zi, J.R. Muhling, M.T.D. Wingate, S. Sheppard .............62 Fifty years of looking at rocks ........................................................................................ 63

D. Kirwin ........................................................................................................................................63 Cycles of ore deposits and Mass Extinction Events; are they controlled by atmosphere oxygenation ................................................................................................................... 64

R.R. Large ......................................................................................................................................64 Remote sensing for mineral exploration ........................................................................ 65

C. Laukamp ....................................................................................................................................65 New insights into the relationships of evaporites with Mississippi Valley-Type Zn-Pb ores: a paradigm shift for exploration ............................................................................ 66

D.L. Leach ......................................................................................................................................66 British Columbia metallogeny and exploration overview ................................................ 67

C.D. Leslie ......................................................................................................................................67

Pyrite variation within the Mount Isa copper system ..................................................... 68 R. Lilly, S. Connell, S. Maguire-Olstad, D. Taylor ..................................................................................68

Geochemistry through cover: defining geochemical exploration parameters for the Cloncurry Mineral District, Queensland .......................................................................... 69

R. Lilly, K. Hannan ...........................................................................................................................69 The National Exploration Undercover School (NExUS) ................................................... 70

R. Lilly, G. Heinson ..........................................................................................................................70 Mineralogy and trace element geochemistry of Ag and Co in the Mount Isa copper orebodies, NW Queensland, Australia ............................................................................ 71

C. Lintvelt, R. Lilly ...........................................................................................................................71 Mineral system analysis and prospectivity modelling for exploration targeting – Current state and challenges ...................................................................................................... 72

V.A. Lisitsin .....................................................................................................................................72 Wolfram Camp W-Mo-Bi deposit .................................................................................... 73

K. Liu,Z. Chang, Y. Cheng .................................................................................................................73 The effect of magmatic oxidation state, hydration state and temperature on incorporation of cerium in zircon: bad news for Ce-in-zircon oxybarometry .................. 74

R.R. Loucks, M.L. Fiorentini, B.D. Rohrlach ..........................................................................................74 Calibration of a new magmatic oxybarometer using uranium, cerium and titanium in zircon as a pathfinder to Cu-fertile arc igneous complexes ............................................ 75

R.R. Loucks, M.L. Fiorentini ...............................................................................................................75 Tungsten and tin deposits in China ................................................................................ 76

J.W. Mao, H.G. Ouyang, Y.B. Cheng, S.D. Yuan, Z.H. Zhou, W. Zheng, S.W. Song ...................................76 Geochemical evolution of the mafic volcanic sequences in the Cloncurry District, Queensland: implications for crustal accretion and prospectivity .................................. 77

J. Maughan, R. Lilly, E. Wembenyui ....................................................................................................77 Dynamic simulation for gas injection with varied grid geometries ................................. 78

T. McCourt, F. Zhou, V. Bianchi, D. Donovan, D. Pike ...........................................................................78 Broadening Paleoproterozoic tectonic and metallogenic models for the proto-Australian continent: examples from the Aileron Province, NT ....................................................... 79

M.V. McGloin, B.L. Reno, J.A. Whelan .................................................................................................79 Targeting epithermal systems by structural response ................................................... 80

J.G. McLellan, C. Chambers ...............................................................................................................80 Regional to local scale linkage of deformation events and IOCG mineralisation in the Eastern Mt Isa Block ...................................................................................................... 81

J.G. McLellan, N.H.S. Oliver, M. Brown ...............................................................................................81 Supercharging field geology - drones and artificial intelligence for ore deposits and structural mapping ........................................................................................................ 82

S. Micklethwaite, S. Thiele, J. Sissins, A. Spek, T. Drummond, N. Chivukula, S. Vollgger ..........................82 NE Qld revisited: using new and old tools to generate targets in mature exploration areas .............................................................................................................................. 83

R.J. Morrison, K. Doyle .....................................................................................................................83 The relationship between orogenic gold and intrusion-related gold systems in the Permo-Carboniferous of northeast Queensland ............................................................. 84

G.W. Morrison, V. Lisitsin ..................................................................................................................84

The Antamina deposit, Peru: U-Pb and Re-Os age constraints on magmatic-hydrothermal activity ........................................................................................................................... 85

S. A. Mrozek, Z. Chang, L. D. Meinert, R.A. Creaser .............................................................................85 Augmenting prospectivity analysis with mining criteria: a test for viability ................... 86

T. Murphy, A. Pratt, M. Hinman, J. Donohue, M. Pirlo ...........................................................................86 The Browns Range Metamorphics, Tanami region, Western Australia: A record of Mesoarchean crust within the North Australian Craton .................................................. 87

T. Nazari-Dehkordi, C. Spandler, N.H.S. Oliver, J. Chapman, R. Wilson ...................................................87 Controls on gold predominance at the La Colosa porphyry giant, Colombia ................... 88

M.J. Nugus, N.H.S. Oliver, A. Uribe, V.A. Chamberlain, R. Peattie, A. Naranjo .........................................88 Early gold introduction in two carbonaceous phyllite-hosted giants: Obuasi (Ghana) and Paracatu (Brazil) ............................................................................................................ 89

N.H.S. Oliver, M.J. Nugus, J. Miller, B. Thomson, R.J. Holcombe, R. Peattie, V. Chamberlain .....................89 Tectonics, paleogeography and drainage evolution of Jurassic-Cretaceous deposystems across central Africa: New insights based on an extensive detrital zircon data set ........ 90

P.C. Owusu Agyemang, E.M. Roberts, C.J. Spandler .............................................................................90 Modelling of hydrothermal fluid compositions in the crust and upper mantle ................ 91

A.G. Parker, J.M. Huizenga................................................................................................................91 New evidence for controls on martite – microplaty hematite mineralisation at Mt Whaleback, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia: a holistic 3D approach ...................... 92

C.S. Perring, M. Crowe .....................................................................................................................92 Geochemistry of PGE enriched Proterozoic dolerites of the southwestern United States 93

J. Phillips, S. Feig, S. Meffre, D.R.Cooke .............................................................................................93 Porphyry Cu-Mo systems emplaced under contrasting tectonic regimes: examples from central Chile and SE China ............................................................................................. 94

J. Piquer, D.R. Cooke .......................................................................................................................94 Climatic and tectonic controls on exhumation patterns and abundance of porphyry and supergene copper deposits: insights from millennial scale erosion rates ....................... 95

C. Placzek, A. Mishra ........................................................................................................................95 The Watershed scheelite skarn deposit, Far North Queensland, Australia ...................... 96

J.A. Poblete, Z. Chang ......................................................................................................................96 Application of modern reflection seismic in gold and base metal mines ......................... 97

D. Pridmore, J. Dwyer, G Turner ........................................................................................................97 Sulfur isotopic constraints on the origin of the Dajiangping SEDEX-type pyrite deposit, South China ................................................................................................................... 99

W. Qiu, M.-F. Zhou ..........................................................................................................................99 Magma fertility indicators ............................................................................................ 100

J.P. Richards ................................................................................................................................. 100 Results from an Atomic Dielectric Resonance (ADR) survey at Charters Towers, Australia .................................................................................................................................... 101

S.W. Richards, G. Stove ................................................................................................................. 101 Accuracy of remotely sensed mineral maps for exploration: ........................................ 102

L.T. Robson, T.D. Cocks .................................................................................................................. 102 Hyperspectral techniques applied to coal characterisation .......................................... 103

S. Rodrigues, L. Fonteneau, J. Esterle, F. Honey, R. Carey .................................................................. 103

Inherited faults: their reactivation and influence on the localisation of arc-related epithermal systems ...................................................................................................... 104

J.V. Rowland, E.A. Bahiru, A.F. Ismayanto, I.C. Wallis ........................................................................ 104 Geology of the Mt Carlton high-sulfidation epithermal deposit, NE Queensland, Australia .................................................................................................................................... 105

F. Sahlström, Z. Chang, P.H.G.M. Dirks, I. Corral, A. Arribas ............................................................... 105 Intrusive centres and Archean gold systems – an example from Geita Greenstone Belt .................................................................................................................................... 106

I.V. Sanislav, P.H.G.M. Dirks, T. Blenkinsop ...................................................................................... 106 Characterising detrital zircons spectra across the Eastern Succession, Mount Isa and links to mineralisation ................................................................................................. 107

S.N. Sargent, L.J. Hutton ................................................................................................................ 107 Atmospheric sulfur in the orogenic gold deposits of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton ....... 108

V. Selvaraja, S. Caruso, M.L. Fiorentini, C.K. LaFlamme ..................................................................... 108 Exploration in and under lithocaps ............................................................................... 109

R.H. Sillitoe ................................................................................................................................... 109 Iron oxide Cu-Au deposits: products of two tectonic settings and two fluids? ............. 110

R.G. Skirrow ................................................................................................................................. 110 The Yangibana LREE deposit of the Gascoyne Province, Western Australia .................. 111

P.R. Slezak, C. Spandler ................................................................................................................. 111 Exploration strategy, business planning and successful execution to compress timeframes of discovery ............................................................................................... 112

R.G. Smith .................................................................................................................................... 112 Reassessing the cyclicity of volcanism and sedimentation in the Devonian-Carboniferous Drummond Basin, central Queensland ......................................................................... 113

K. Sobczak, S. E. Bryan, C. R. Fielding, C. M. Allen, A. Kerrison ........................................................... 113 Geology and evolution of the Toongi rare metal deposit, central NSW ......................... 114

C. Spandler, C. Morris .................................................................................................................... 114 Detrital zircon geochronology of Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic sandstones from Northern Queensland (Hughenden region): implications for the evolution of eastern Australian basins .......................................................................................................................... 115

C.N. Todd, E.M. Roberts ................................................................................................................. 115 Resolution of Permian & Triassic stratigraphic problems in the Porcupine Gorge, Queensland .................................................................................................................. 116

C.N. Todd, E.M. Roberts ................................................................................................................. 116 Lithogeochemistry of pegmatites at Broken Hill: an exploration vector to mineralisation .................................................................................................................................... 117

C.E. Torrey, G.M. Coianiz, J.A. Fitzherbert, P.L. Blevin ........................................................................ 117 Palaeoprotorozoic banded iron formation (BIF)-hosted manganese deposits: myth or reality?......................................................................................................................... 118

H. Tsikos, X.R. Mhlanga, P.B.R. Oonk ............................................................................................... 118 Links between fault kinematics, unconformity geometry, orebody localization and orebody geometries in the South Alligator Valley, NT .................................................. 119

R.K. Valenta .................................................................................................................................. 119 Short-wavelength infrared spectroscopy as a tool for characterising hydrothermal alteration at the Geita Hill gold deposit, Tanzania ........................................................ 120

M.R. Van Ryt, I.V. Sanislav, P.H.G.M. Dirks, J.M. Huizenga, M.I. Mturi, S.L. Kolling ................................ 120

Gilberton District: An example of an intrusion-related gold system in North Queensland .................................................................................................................................... 121

J.A. Veracruz, G.W. Morrison, P.M. Ashley ......................................................................................... 121 Ore shoot formation in an orogenic gold deposit ......................................................... 122

S.A. Vollgger, A.G. Tomkins, S. Micklethwaite, A.R. Cruden, C.J.L. Wilson............................................. 122 Volato-thermal Au systems in the Late Archean - Core to the Crust ............................. 123

J.L. Walshe, A.B. Bath .................................................................................................................... 123 White mica as a hyperspectral tool in exploration for Sunrise Dam and Kanowna Belle gold deposits, Western Australia ................................................................................. 124

R. Wang, T. Cudahy, C. Laukamp, J.L. Walshe, A. Bath ...................................................................... 124 Tectonic Controls on regional metallogenesis in the Fengxian-Taibai polymetallic mineralization zone, Western Qinling, Central China ................................................... 125

Y. Wang, S. Chen, Q. Hu ................................................................................................................ 125 Rare metal mineralization in the Khaldzan Burgedei peralkaline complex in western Mongolia ...................................................................................................................... 126

Y. Watanabe, Sarangua, T. Echigo, M. Hoshino .................................................................................. 126 Geochronological and geochemical evidence for two ore-forming events in the Northparkes district NSW ............................................................................................ 127

T.J. Wells, D.R. Cooke, J.M.J. Baker, L. Zhang, J. Hoye ...................................................................... 127 Correlating basement terranes in the North Australian Craton, implications from a new study in the Arnhem Province, Northern Territory ....................................................... 128

J.A. Whelan, B.L. Reno, A. Weisheit, S. Kraus, N. Kositcin, J.D. Woodhead, R. Maas, R.A. Armstrong ....... 128 Low and intermediate-sulfidation epithermal deposits ................................................ 129

N.C. White, Z. Chang, D.R. Cooke .................................................................................................... 129 Rare earth mutants - Wolverine and other hydrothermal xenotime deposits, Browns Range, NW Australia .................................................................................................... 130

R. Wilson, J. Chapman, N. H. S. Oliver, T. Nazari-Dehkordi, C. Spandler ............................................... 130 Mining industry overview: growth in resources demand post-WW2 & future exploration implications ................................................................................................................. 131

D. Wood AO .................................................................................................................................. 131 Magmatic Au mineralization at the Bilihe Au deposit, China ......................................... 132

Z. Yang, Z. Chang .......................................................................................................................... 132 The Jinding Zn-Pb deposit: In the view of a field geologist .......................................... 133

T.N. Yang, C.D. Xue, M.J. Liang ....................................................................................................... 133 LA ICP-MS trace element analysis of pyrite from Dabaoshan poly-metallic deposit of north of Guangdong Province: Implications for ore genesis ......................................... 134

D. Zhang, A. Lu ............................................................................................................................. 134 Tectonic evolution and formation of the Proterozoic IOCG deposits in Kangdian, southwest China .......................................................................................................... 135

X.-F. Zhao, Z.-K. Su ....................................................................................................................... 135 Fe-Mg-B-isotopic constraints on the genesis of large-scale Paleoproterozoic B-(Fe) mineralization in NE China ........................................................................................... 136

X.-K. Zhu, A. Dong, Z. Li, Y. Wang ................................................................................................... 136

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