geological survey of nsw

Exploration Data WorkshopGeological Survey Technical Talks1st June 2016, Orange

Geological Survey of NSW

Chris YeatsExecutive Director, GSNSW


Role of GSNSWThe Geological Survey of NSW collects and manages geological, geophysical, geochemical and geospatial data…

to inform the government, resource industry and the community about the state's geology, and mineral, coal, petroleum and renewable energy resources….

to facilitate the safe and sustainable development of NSW mineral and energy resources for the benefit of all NSW citizens.

HOW

WHAT

WHY


Executive Director GSNSW

Chris Yeats

Geoscience Acquisition &

SynthesisJohn Greenfield

Geoscience InformationSam Wilkin

Coal Innovation NSW

Rick Fowler

Land Use & Titles Advice

Paul Dale

Strategic Resource Assessment &

AdviceKevin Ruming

GSNSW Structure

Data Collection& Delivery

Provision ofAdvice


GSNSW 2015-16

102 Staff63 Permanent, 39 Term staffCoal Innovation NSW within GSNSW

$30.9M Budget

$11.6M Staff, $12.6M Operating$2.3M Grants, $4.3M CapEx

$3.0BN Assets$2.5b – digital data holdings$0.5b – core, cuttings, samples in 6 core libraries

1400 GSNSW products600 books, reports, bulletins etc.60 digital data packages, apps550 maps

Capabilities across coal, petroleum, geosequestration, geothermal and minerals:• Mapping• Mineral systems• Geophysics, 3D • Large survey and drilling procurement• Land-use, titles, & resource assessment• Palaeontology, Petrology, HyLogger™• Digital Cartography• Editing, layout, graphics• Databases, web delivery, apps


Seamless GeologyWestern NSW (Zone 54) preliminary stitch, including Broken Hill, complete

Londonderry Core Library ExtensionNew HyLogger™ facility, new meeting room

Cooperative Drilling Round 1 completed Applications for Round 2 closed April 29

Southern Thomson Orogen Ground geophysics completedDrill sites selected – drilling this winter

Geoscience Information New DIGS search engine operationalNSW Whole rock geochemistry database

East RiverinaMapping completed for Ardelethan & Barmedman

NVCLCobar project, 3D Porphyry project

CINSW$10M R&D funding roundGround truthing and enviro/heritage work for Seismic

Key Projects Cobar metallogenic map Will be released later this year

Moss Vale Explanatory Notes released

Yathong Trough Seismic data released

Coastal Quaternary Geology of NSW

Common Ground Launched

Sm-Nd Map of NSW released

3D Modelling Online web viewer for GSNSW 3D models

Special MentionsHighlights of 2015-16


WB Clarke Geoscience Centre Expansion $5M project completed ahead of schedule and under budget in March

2016 expands the core storage

capacity from 1200 km to 1875 km of core

storage facility for naturally occurring radioactive materials

portable XRF, desktop XRD new meeting room dedicated HyLogger™

facility


Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar JunGeological Mapping

Regional Mapping East Riverina north East Riverina south GilgandraMetallogenic/mineral potential Cobar NEO Mineral Potential Mac Arc Mineral potential

Mineral deposit models (including spectral) Zone 56 Zone 55 Zone 54Seamless Geology Zone 54 Zone 55 East Zone 55 West Mac arc redux B.Hill redux NEO redux

Mineral potential maps (seamless derivatives) Z56 mineral potential Zone 55 Mineral Potential Z54 Mineral potentialMetamorphic map (seamless derivatives) NSW Metamorphic Map Fault attribution

Precompetitive data acquisitionSouthern Thomson Drill site testing Stratigraphic Drilling

Seismic Southern central NSWAirborne Magnetic & radiometric Gilgandra

AusLamp MT Statewide Lachlan TZCrustal framework

3D Basement NEO E. Riverina Central Lachlan3D Statewide DTB and fault network DTB DTB Major fault networks Update and infill statewide model

3D Basins Darling, Surat Sydney-Gunnedah Murray, Eromanga Oaklands Resources- coal, gas, water, CO2, heatOre deposits & tectonics of the Lachlan Orogen CODES project

DatabaseStratigraphic unit tables Zone 56 Zone 55 Zone 54

Data delivery Online data delivery WR Geochemistry Palaeontology Airborne Geophysics Seismic delivery module

Maps & Reports On Demand web app Phase 1: maps & reports Phase 2: enhancements & extra features RefineGeoscience Information Gateway (with 3D capability) 2D Map viewer Integrated portal Fully integrated 3D geological model of NSW

20212015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020FY2021FY1516 FY1617 FY1718 FY1819 FY1920

New Frontiers Initiative 5 Year Plan


ARRC LinkageTectonic Evolution of the Lachlan Orogen


ARRC LinkageTectonic Evolution of the Lachlan Orogen

• Collect new data on SE Australian mineral systems– Victorian Cambrian mineral systems– NSW Ordovician porphyry – Silurian-Devonian mineral systems

• Use this new data for– Evaluation of Lachlan tectonic models– Development of ore fertility models

• Deliverables– Plate tectonic models incorporating ore

genesis– Prospectivity analysis– New geochemical, geochronological and

mineral chemistry data


Cobar MetallogenicMapping

East RiverinaMapping

NEO MineralPotential Mapping

Southern ThomsonDrilling & MT

SeamlessGeology

Z55East

Exp. Notes: BraidwoodCaptains Flat

Exp. Notes: Coolabah

Exp. Notes: Mt OxleySuratData Package

EromangaData Package

Murray - DarlingData Package Sydney – Gunnedah

3D Model

NVCL Broken Hill

2016-17 Project Areas

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