Investor Presentaiton
Carbonatites
> Major source of REE and Niobium
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Little is currently known about carbonatites in South
Australia
Potential carbonatites to be characterised to understand
South Australia's potential
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Project led by Dr Mitchell Bockmann
Fertility
Metasomatised
sub-continental
lithospheric mantle
Architecture
Cratonic setting
Deep, mantle-
tapping structures
MUSGRAVE
PROVINCE
Geodynamics
Extensional tectonic setting
(statistically favoured over
compressional settings)
Low-degree partial
melting
South Australia
has the ingredients
for carbonatites!
Carbonatite-
related rocks
Kimberlite
Lamprophyre
Lamprophyre (drillhole log)
Lamproite
Ijolite
Ceduna
Nb
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Oolgelima
Complex
Niobium
Coaber
Pedy
Mt Brady
GAWLER
CRATON
â– Township/locality
Highway
Railway
Roxby Downs
Port
Augusta
Whyalla
Port Pirie
92.906
Moomba
Umberatana
Diatreme
CURNAMONA
PROVINCE
ADELAIDE
RIFT
COMPLEX
Walloway
Port Lincoln
ADELAIDE
Kingscote
Billeroo
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Scale
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200km
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