An Australian Research Council funded Project - LP0347342

Projects Investigators

Doctor Karin Barovich

Doctor Chris Clark (Curtin University)

Professor John Foden

Associate Professor Martin Hand

Doctor Lachlan Rutherford (PIRSA)

Backgound to Curnamona Projects

The Curnamona Province consists of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic sediments, volcanics and granites that have been multiply deformed during two major orogenic cycles, the Olarian Orogeny and the Delamerian Orogeny. The rocks of the Curnamona Province lie within the Willyama Complex, which includes the Broken Hill Block, location of the world class Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit. The complex mamgatic, sedimentary and orogenic history of the Curnamona province lends itself to intensive study through isotopic geochemistry and related geochemical techniques.

There are three major projects underway within CERG to further our understanding of the Curnamona Province. Follow the links to read more.

• Assessment of the provenance of the Paleoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and similarities with the Mt. Isa Inlier sedimentary successions.

• Creation of a model of crust-mantle evolution through the magmatic history of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Craton, South Australia.

• Determinaton of sources of mineralising fluids in the southern Curnamona Craton through geochemical and Nd isotopic analysis.

More details about the geology, geophysics, GIS, mineralisation and orogenesis within the Curnamona Province can be found on the PIRSA web site.