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Geochemistry of drill core samples from the Stuart Shelf region, South Australia - Exploring for the Future – Baseline whole rock geochemistry data release 2

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program aims to enhance decision-making on Australia's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources by providing comprehensive geoscience data. Launched in 2016 with a $225m investment, the program has spawned various national projects, including the Australia's Resources Framework (ARF). The ARF focuses on a national perspective of Australia's surface and subsurface geology, supporting economic and social benefits, including transition to net-zero emissions.

One key sub-project within EFTF is the Geochemistry for Basin Prospectivity (G4BP) module. It explores Australian basins for basin-hosted base metal systems. The current focus (2020-2024) is on the Stuart Shelf region in South Australia, in collaboration with the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) and CSIRO. The efforts aim to refine our understanding of sediment-hosted copper-cobalt-silver (Cu-Co-Ag) potential in this area.

This work has two primary objectives:

Geochemical fingerprinting and baseline data collection: Comprehensive data collection and reanalysis of existing samples aim to establish baseline geochemistry for stratigraphic units. Mineral system components: Identification of potential metal sources, fluid sources, and trap rocks using a mineral systems approach.

This data release forms the second stage release of new geochemical data for the Stuart Shelf region; the first stage release was detailed in Champion et al. (2023b). There is also an earlier data release (Champion et al., 2023a) featuring reanalysis, by modern analytical methods, of legacy mineralised and/or altered Stuart Shelf and underlying basement samples held at Geoscience Australia.

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Title Geochemistry of drill core samples from the Stuart Shelf region, South Australia - Exploring for the Future – Baseline whole rock geochemistry data release 2
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/483b636a-d476-47bc-9c03-e10bd34df8de
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Reference Period 25/07/2024
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geochemistry of drill core samples from the Stuart Shelf region, South Australia - Exploring for the Future – Baseline whole rock geochemistry data release 2". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geochemistry-of-drill-core-samples-from-the-stuart-shelf-region-south-australia-exploring-for-t