World R & D

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="04dd4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Link Up</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>TOUCHSTONES-GOLD® Collaborative Design</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TOUCHSTONESGOLD® Collaborative Design"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scientific Issues"><U>Scientific Issues</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research Mission"><U>Research Mission</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact "><U>Contact </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Your Participation"><U>Your Participation</U></A>   |   <B>World R & D </B>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="World Strategy"><U>World Strategy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gold Sector Economics"><U>Gold Sector Economics</U></A></div> <div> World R & D </div> <bR> <div> Newer, well-funded or planned R & D on predictive or fundamental modeling efforts of major gold producers (some with Archean exposures) has been given renewed emphasis (local currencies, years as available).</div> <div> Browse for "Archean gold"  or visit the sites below to find out more.  For physicochemical approaches to resolving geological system behaviour browse for "Physicochemical geology" or "Physicochemical metallogeny" .  Send along your links by e-mail.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Australia:</B>  </div> <bR> <div> AMIRA International - Geoscience R & D  ($1.6 million, 2005; $1.8 million, 2006; $0.8 million, 2007)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.amira.com.au" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amira.com.au"><U>http://www.amira.com.au</U></A>  /Project Portfolio/Geoscience</div> <bR> <div> Australian Research Council</div> <div> Australian National University- Stress transfer modelling in fault-related mineral deposits  <A HREF="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/Detail.aspx?id=LP0562164" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/Detai"><U>http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/Detail.aspx?id=LP0562164</U></A></div> <div> James Cook University- The new granite-gold connection <A HREF="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/research/Detail.aspx?id=LP0455118" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/resea"><U>http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/research/Detail.aspx?id=LP0455118</U></A></div> <div> Monash University- Application of 3D Modelling to Mineral Exploration Under Cover  <A HREF="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/research/Detail.aspx?id=LP0560511" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/resea"><U>http://apps.arc.gov.au/arcresearch/research/Detail.aspx?id=LP0560511</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Cooperative Research Centre for Predictive Mineral Discovery ($107.6 million, 2001/2 - 2007/8 estimated)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.pmdcrc.com.au" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pmdcrc.com.au"><U>http://www.pmdcrc.com.au</U></A></div> <bR> <div> CSIRO, Division of Exploration and Mining, Computational Geoscience Group for Predictive Discovery ($0.07 million, 2006)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.em.csiro.au/comp_geo/compgeo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.em.csiro.au/comp_geo/compgeo."><U>http://www.em.csiro.au/comp_geo/compgeo.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> GEMOC, ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University</div> <div> ($2.4 million, 2006)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/Research.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/Research.h"><U>http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/Research.html</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Geoscience Australia</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/metallogeny/index.jsp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/m"><U>http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/metallogeny/index.jsp</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/geofluids/freegs_about.jsp#1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/"><U>https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/geofluids/freegs_about.jsp#1</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/geofluids/HCh.jsp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/"><U>https://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/research/methodology/geofluids/HCh.jsp</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Monash University, Australian Crustal Research Centre</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geosci.monash.edu.au/research/acrc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geosci.monash.edu.au/research"><U>http://www.geosci.monash.edu.au/research/acrc.html</U></A></div> <bR> <div> University of Western Australia, Centre for Global Metallogeny News, Centre for Exploration Targeting ($2 million,  3 years; 2006-)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cgm.uwa.edu.au/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cgm.uwa.edu.au/"><U>http://www.cgm.uwa.edu.au/</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Canada:</B>   Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), Geological Survey of Canada, Mineral Resources Division, EXTECH III project ($0.5 million, 1999-2001);</div> <div> <A HREF="http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/extech/extech3_e.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/extech/extech3_e."><U>http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/extech/extech3_e.php</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Canadian Mining Industry Research Organization (CAMIRO)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.camiro.org/exploration_projects.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.camiro.org/exploration_projec"><U>http://www.camiro.org/exploration_projects.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Manitoba: Industry, Economic Development and Mines, Manitoba Geological Survey, Operation Superior  (1996-2002)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gov.mb.ca/itm/mrd/geo/superior/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gov.mb.ca/itm/mrd/geo/superio"><U>http://www.gov.mb.ca/itm/mrd/geo/superior/index.html</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Ontario<B>:</B>  Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM), Ontario Mineral Exploration Technologies "OMET" Program ($8 million, 2001-2004)</div> <div> (Completed)</div> <bR> <div> Ontario<B>:</B>  Discover Abitibi Initiative ($12 million, 2003-2006; $148 million proprietary data value to 2004) </div> <div> <A HREF="http://discoverabitibi.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://discoverabitibi.com"><U>http://discoverabitibi.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Ontario: Laurentian University, Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://142.51.14.1/Laurentian/Home/Departments/MERC/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://142.51.14.1/Laurentian/Home/Depar"><U>http://142.51.14.1/Laurentian/Home/Departments/MERC/</U></A></div> <bR> <div> British Columbia: University of British Columbia, Mineral Deposits Research Unit (MDRU, $0.3 million, 2005, 2006)- </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/"><U>http://www.mdru.ubc.ca</U></A></div> <div> Footprints of Archean Lode-Gold Deposits-  Red Lake Area</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/hd-rl.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/hd-"><U>http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/hd-rl.php</U></A></div> <div> 3D Geological Imaging of Greenstone Au deposits Using Geophysical Inversion- Hislop Deposit </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/em-timmins.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/em-"><U>http://www.mdru.ubc.ca/home/research/em-timmins.php</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Russia</B></div> <bR> <div> Russian Academy of Sciences  </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ras.ru/scientificactivity/sciencefields7.aspx" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ras.ru/scientificactivity/sci"><U>http://www.ras.ru/scientificactivity/sciencefields7.aspx</U></A></div> <div> Institute of Ore Deposits Geology, Petrography, Mineralogy & Geochemistry </div> <div> Korzhinskii Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Analysis of Endogenic Processes</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.igem.ru/lfca/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.igem.ru/lfca/index.htm"><U>http://www.igem.ru/lfca/index.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>South Africa:  </B>University of Witwatersrand</div> <bR> <div> Archean Greenstone Belt Research</div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/Geosciences/Research/greenstone/AGBR.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/G"><U>http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/Geosciences/Research/greenstone/AGBR.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Centre for Applied Mining and Exploration Geology (CAMEG), </div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/geosciences" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/g"><U>http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/geosciences</U></A></div> <div> [Research][cameg]</div> <bR> <div> Economic Geology Research Institute - Hugh Allsopp Laboratory (EGRI-HAL)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/GeoSciences/Research/egri/EconomicGeologyResearchInstitute.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/G"><U>http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/GeoSciences/Research/egri/EconomicGeologyResearchInstitute.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> South African Committee on Stratigraphy (SACS 1980) Task Group for the Witwatersrand Supergroup</div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/GeoSciences/Research/sacs/SACS.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/G"><U>http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/GeoSciences/Research/sacs/SACS.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Witwatersrand Basin Project</div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/Geosciences/Research/WitsBasin/home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/G"><U>http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/Geosciences/Research/WitsBasin/home.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>United States of America: </B></div> <bR> <div> US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior</div> <div> Quantitative Assessment, Undiscovered Mineral Deposits ($12.1 million per annum, FY 2006-2010)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/plan/2006-2010/budget.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/plan/2006-2010/"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/plan/2006-2010/budget.html</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Mineral Resources External Research Program MRERP</div> <div> Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources  (1.0 million, FY2007)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/conminres.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/c"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/conminres.htm</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgs.gov/contracts/Minerals/07MineralsAnn.doc" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgs.gov/contracts/Minerals/0"><U>http://www.usgs.gov/contracts/Minerals/07MineralsAnn.doc</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Advanced Resource Assessment Methods</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/aram.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/a"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/aram.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Western Region Gold Deposits (Paleozoic-Mesozoic-Tertiary, Devonian; Carlin-type systems, Great Basin)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/nngd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/n"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/nngd.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Mineral Systems of Siberia, Mongolia, Northeastern China, South Korea, and Japan (Northeast Asia); A Collaborative Project by Russian Academy of Sciences, </div> <div> Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Changchun University of Earth Sciences, the Geological Survey of Japan, and the U.S. Geological Survey</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/minres.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/m"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/minres.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Mineral Resources</div> <div> <A HREF="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/risk.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/r"><U>http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/risk.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>International:  </B></div> <bR> <div> Data Metallogenica</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.datametallogenica.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.datametallogenica.com/"><U>http://www.datametallogenica.com/</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Selected Journals and Publications</div> <bR> <div> Here, recent abstracts and publications are regularly reviewed on the basis of relevance to important components and processes of Archean silicate systems and gold metallogeny. </div> <div> These themes may be focused, regular or occasional in the respective journals:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Chemical Geology</B></div> <div> Occasional articles on important components and processes of Archean (and other) silicate systems can found at:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00092541 " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00092541 </U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Chemical Physics</B></div> <div> Occasional articles on silicate (polymer) systems and regular articles on other polymer system modelling:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03010104" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03010104</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Computers & Geosciences</B></div> <div> Occasional articles on computational methods (for example equlibrium gas speciation in volcanic and laboratory conditions; stress-induced fault slip; 3-D modeling) add a quantitative focus and may have direct application to Archean silicate systems research:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00983004" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00983004</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>G-Cubed</B> , Electronic Journal of the Earth Sciences</div> <div> G3 publications focus on Earth as a system, including physics and chemistry of the solid Earth, its hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere; Earth's relationships to other planets, and to the solar system . The journal also highlights advances in modeling for the earth sciences generally. </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/ " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/ "><U><U>http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta</B></div> <div> Occasional theoretical and laboratory treatments of silicate systems (e.g. mineral surface complexation, charge density distribution, monomer- Me---O - oxide surface protonation, related models; e.g. silicate behaviour in presence of specific volatiles to magmatic temperatures); </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00167037 " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00167037</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Geology of Ore Deposits (Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii)</B></div> <div> Articles on metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources with some special interests in conditions of their formation and distribution; distribution pattern of metallogenic zones and mineral deposits; localization conditions; physicochemical parameters, evolution of oreforming systems; economic problems of ore districts and deposits development.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.maik.rssi.ru/cgi-perl/journal.pl?name=geolore&page=main " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.maik.rssi.ru/cgi-perl/journal"><U><U>http://www.maik.rssi.ru/cgi-perl/journal.pl?name=geolore&page=main </U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Journal of Geochemical Exploration</B> </div> <div> Among other themes, occasional articles dealing with alteration (and related indices) in gold-bearing districts can be found in this journal:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03756742" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03756742</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Precambrian Research</B></div> <div> Publications on Archean tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry and petrology are regularly featured in this journal along with others on Proterozoic geology. </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03019268" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03019268</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications</B> </div> <div> Regular articles on polymer, polymer solution theory with some implication for (polymerized ) silicate systems. Occasional themes of interest may include entropy flux-heat flux modeling (e.g. far-from-equilibrium systems); coupled complex amplitude oscillator behaviour in lattices:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784371" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jou"><U><U>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784371</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Last updated: October 22, 2007</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>