Hunting high and low: mapping ancient topography to find copper

高低狩猎：绘制古代地形以寻找铜

• 批准号: IE230100098
• 负责人: Dr Nicky Wright
• 金额: $ 29.04万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Early Career Industry Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/IE230100098
• 关键词: Hunting; low; mapping; ancient; topography

Transitioning to a decarbonised society requires significant amounts of copper; however, preventing a systems-based exploration approach for copper is the lack of a first-order dataset of the Earth’s surface evolution, known as palaeogeography. This project aims to unearth potential areas of porphyry copper through deep time by developing innovative global palaeogeography reconstructions. Expected outcomes of this project include new quantitative palaeogeography reconstructions, as well as the first well-constrained reconstructions of copper preservation potential. This should provide benefits such as an improved understanding of the porphyry copper lifecycle, with significant impacts for resource exploration and decarbonisation efforts.

向脱碳社会过渡需要大量的铜；然而，阻止基于系统的铜勘探方法是地球表面演化的一级数据集，即古地理学，该项目旨在挖掘斑岩铜的潜在区域。通过开发创新的全球古地理重建，该项目的预期成果包括新的定量古地理重建，以及首次对铜保存潜力进行严格限制的重建。好处包括提高对斑岩铜生命周期的了解，对资源勘探和脱碳工作产生重大影响。