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World R & D
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).
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.
Australia:
AMIRA International - Geoscience R & D ($1.6 million, 2005; $1.8 million, 2006; $0.8 million, 2007)
Australian Research Council
Cooperative Research Centre for Predictive Mineral Discovery ($107.6 million, 2001/2 - 2007/8 estimated)
CSIRO, Division of Exploration and Mining, Computational Geoscience Group for Predictive Discovery ($0.07 million, 2006)
GEMOC, ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
($2.4 million, 2006)
Geoscience Australia
Monash University, Australian Crustal Research Centre
University of Western Australia, Centre for Global Metallogeny News, Centre for Exploration Targeting ($2 million, 3 years; 2006-)
Canada: Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), Geological Survey of Canada, Mineral Resources Division, EXTECH III project ($0.5 million, 1999-2001);
Canadian Mining Industry Research Organization (CAMIRO)
Manitoba: Industry, Economic Development and Mines, Manitoba Geological Survey, Operation Superior (1996-2002)
Ontario: Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM), Ontario Mineral Exploration Technologies "OMET" Program ($8 million, 2001-2004)
(Completed)
Ontario: Discover Abitibi Initiative ($12 million, 2003-2006; $148 million proprietary data value to 2004)
Ontario: Laurentian University, Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC)
British Columbia: University of British Columbia, Mineral Deposits Research Unit (MDRU, $0.3 million, 2005, 2006)-
Footprints of Archean Lode-Gold Deposits- Red Lake Area
3D Geological Imaging of Greenstone Au deposits Using Geophysical Inversion- Hislop Deposit
Russia
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Ore Deposits Geology, Petrography, Mineralogy & Geochemistry
Korzhinskii Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Analysis of Endogenic Processes
South Africa: University of Witwatersrand
Archean Greenstone Belt Research
Centre for Applied Mining and Exploration Geology (CAMEG),
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Economic Geology Research Institute - Hugh Allsopp Laboratory (EGRI-HAL)
South African Committee on Stratigraphy (SACS 1980) Task Group for the Witwatersrand Supergroup
Witwatersrand Basin Project
United States of America:
US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Quantitative Assessment, Undiscovered Mineral Deposits ($12.1 million per annum, FY 2006-2010)
Mineral Resources External Research Program MRERP
Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources (1.0 million, FY2007)
Advanced Resource Assessment Methods
Western Region Gold Deposits (Paleozoic-Mesozoic-Tertiary, Devonian; Carlin-type systems, Great Basin)
Mineral Systems of Siberia, Mongolia, Northeastern China, South Korea, and Japan (Northeast Asia); A Collaborative Project by Russian Academy of Sciences,
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Changchun University of Earth Sciences, the Geological Survey of Japan, and the U.S. Geological Survey
Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Mineral Resources
International:
Data Metallogenica
Selected Journals and Publications
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.
These themes may be focused, regular or occasional in the respective journals:
Chemical Geology
Occasional articles on important components and processes of Archean (and other) silicate systems can found at:
Chemical Physics
Occasional articles on silicate (polymer) systems and regular articles on other polymer system modelling:
Computers & Geosciences
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:
G-Cubed , Electronic Journal of the Earth Sciences
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.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
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);
Geology of Ore Deposits (Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii)
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.
Journal of Geochemical Exploration
Among other themes, occasional articles dealing with alteration (and related indices) in gold-bearing districts can be found in this journal:
Precambrian Research
Publications on Archean tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry and petrology are regularly featured in this journal along with others on Proterozoic geology.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
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:
Last updated: October 22, 2007
