Satellite ASTER geoscience mapping for Chile

C3DMM/Minerals Down Under Flagship

December 2012

ASTER Geoscience Map of Australia Project

WA Centre of Excellence for 3D Mineral Mapping C3DMM

34IGC | Towards global 3D mineralogy | 10th August 2012

Minerals
Searching the Deep Earth A vision for exploration geoscience in Australia.
Australian Academy of Sciences, 2012

A key advance will be the recognition of unique datasets that can be applied at a range of scales to map the various facets of a mineral system, from metal and fluid source, to pathways, depositional sites and fluid exit conduits
buthas the exploration industry ever been empowered with public, pre-competitive mineralogy, especially for detecting alteration footprints? Resources still to be found at the surface Mineral maps a new map of the earths surface for the 21st Century

34IGC | ASTER for UNCOVER| 22nd November 2012

ASTER satellite system

1st (only) geoscience-tuned satellite sensor Japanese designed/built (ERSDAC) USA satellite platform (TERRA)

Launched December 1999

Basic specifications
60 by 60 km image 14 spectral bands: 3 VNIR (Landsat config) @ 15 m 6 SWIR @ 30 m 5 TIR @ 90 m Push-broom for VNIR and SWIR Whiskbroom for TIR Significant Instrument/data Issues

atmospheric correction, SWIR X-talk, TES SWIR module switched off in 2009 Data now only available through ERSDAC GDS
www.gds.aster.ersdac.or.jp/gds_www2002/index_e.html

3 complete global mosaics

ASTER geoscience mapping for Chile, December2012

C3DMMs ASTER Geoscience Products

Input ASTER L1B radiance-at-sensor data provided by ERSDAC, NASA and USGS Correction for instrument, illumination, atmospheric and geometric effects About 4000 ASTER scenes selected out of more than 30,000 across Australia Hyperion imagery used for reduction and validation of cross-calibrated ASTER mosaic to reflectance Band ratios used as base algorithms and masked for complicating effects (e.g. clouds) Generated Geoscience Products include: Mineral Group content maps Mineral Group composition maps Associated maps (e.g. Green Vegetation abundance)

Eastern Arunta Inlier

Silicate index low high

View the ASTER maps using World Wind http://www.ga.gov.au/aster-viewer View and download ASTER maps: http://portal.auscope.org/portal/gmap.html; https://sarig.pir.sa.gov.au/Map; http://geoscience.nt.gov.au/giws or CSIRO's C3DMM webpage

ASTER geoscience product descriptions

http://c3dmm.csiro.au

GSWA Open Day, Fremantle, February 24th 2012

http://portal.auscope.org/portal/gmap.html

34IGC | Towards global 3D mineralogy | 10th August 2012

17 ASTER Geoscience maps of Australia

AlOH Group composition AlOH content content Ferric oxide composition Silica Group index

Iron oxide zoom for iron ore exploration

channel iron ore

10 km

Starra published 100K geology

HyMap opaque mineral content

hot oxidized fluids

Graphitic metasediments
schist, meta-arenite, slate, phyllite, calcsilicate rocks and metarhyolites graphitic slate, phyllite, metasiltstones and calcareous rock phyllite, slate, mica schist

reduced

low

high

Starra published 100K geology

HyMap muscovite Al-chemistry

hot oxidized fluids Merlin

RIII=3.2 (Al-rich)

RIII=4.0 (Al-poor)

Exploration for Cu-Au deposits in the Eastern Arunta

Jervois Cu-Au metamorphic schist of ore zone: quartz-chlorite (biotite), muscovite cordierite garnet magnetite rhyolite, granitic gneiss, amphibolite cordierite-biotite schist

Camp scale mapping

Jervois Cu-Au metamorphic schist of ore zone: quartzchlorite (biotite), muscovite cordierite garnet magnetite rhyolite, granitic gneiss, amphibolite cordierite-biotite schist

MgOH content

high

low

carbonates

Marshall

chl ( bt?)

Bellbird

Regional application of learnings from Jervois area

high Fe-oxide content in qtz-ser-schist enhanced white mica alteration as halo around mineral deposits!? enhanced chlorite (bt?!) alteration in Qtz-chl-mgt schist in vicinity to Cu-Au showings!?

Bellbird

high

low

Ferric Oxide cont.

more prospective areas?

Bellbird

Georgina Basin Sediments Bellbird

AlOH content NT ASTER Geoscience Map Workshop

MgOH content

chl ( bt?)

CSIRO HY-logging

AuScope National Virtual Core Library TSG Auspec as a partner and service provider

http://portal.auscope.org/gmap.html

http://nvcl.csiro.au
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Impact beyond exploration

Environment, Water, CSG

BoM, WfHC, GA

Marine biophysical modelling CMAR

Groundwater Uni Ballarat, VeRSI, DPI Vic

and growing

Dust storms/sources
1957-1984
Ground meteorological data
McTainsh & Pitlado, 1987

LEB

MINEX 2012 | Towards global 3D mineralogy | 10th August 2012

Sandy deserts

Great Sandy Tanami Little Sandy

Gibson
Simpson Sturt Stoney Strzelecki

X
Great Victoria

ASTER Silica Index

not quartz sand

quartz sand

MINEX 2012 | Towards global 3D mineralogy | 10th August 2012

ASTER Desertification index

0 clay 1 quartz sand

DI=SI/(SI+CI)
where: SI is scaled ASTER Silica Index CI is scaled ASTER AlOH Group content

desertification risk cropping land

MINEX 2012 | Towards global 3D mineralogy | 10th August 2012

Geophysical Inversion for Aquifer & Groundwater Characterisation

Conductivity-Depth Sections from Full Non-Linear Inversion of data acquired by different AEM systems

Review of system capability

Linking hydrogeology and geophysics to understand surface water and groundwater interactions

Localised point source discharge from deep aquifer

Upward flux from deep saline aquifer

Australian Mining Journal

2012 Explore of the Year - C3DMM

Satellite ASTER geoscience mapping for Chile

Thank you
C3DMM/Minerals Down Under Flagship