New GA find is off the charts

Every few years a data plot appears that makes exploration geoscientists giddy with excitement. This new one from Geoscience Australia is right up there.

David Upton

If you are in the mineral exploration business you'll likely remember the buzz created by Graham Heinson's "Fingers of God" cross-section of crust in the Olympic Dam province. His magnetotelluric (MT) work revealed slender, conductive fingers of crust swirling up from the mantle to beneath Olympic Dam, Wirrda Well and two other locations coinciding with known mineralisation.