EXPLORATION

Looking for value in Pine Creek waste

THE Northern Territory Geological Survey and the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute have teamed up to look for in situ massive sulphides and any critical mineral traces in tailings and waste rock dumps across the Pine Creek orogenic belt, south of Darwin.

 Discussing the past: Kam Bhowany and Zhengdon Han standing on one of the sampled tailings deposits.

Discussing the past: Kam Bhowany and Zhengdon Han standing on one of the sampled tailings deposits.

With the mercury pushing well past 40C, NTGS geologist Pablo Farias and mine waste transformation through characterisation team members Dr Kam Bhowany, Dr Zhengdong Han and Thomas Ray Jones went to two...

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