CSIRO-NTGS McArthur Basin Project

Abstract

This Record is a compilation of the six chapters completed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on the CSIRO-NTGS McArthur Basin Project, a 3-year collaborative project between CSIRO Mineral Resources and the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS). The chapters present new geological constraints on the factors and processes controlling the prospectivity for sediment-hosted mineralisation in the southern McArthur Basin, Northern Territory. The project took an integrated approach, including acquisition and interpretation of new gravity data, re-interpretation of existing geophysical datasets, detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic analysis, petrography, elemental and isotope geochemistry, mineralisation characterisation and numerical modelling of basin-scale fluid flow.