Student: Antony Mamuse

antony.mamuse@postgrad.curtin.edu.au

Thesis: A benchmark study in assessing Australia’s nickel endowment

Summary of research

The Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia contains more than 60% of the world’s known komatiite-hosted nickel sulphide resources. My PhD research aims to model the spatio-statistical distribution of known nickel sulphide deposits, estimate the number of undiscovered nickel sulphide deposits and the quantity of undiscovered nickel endowment in the Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt. Spatio-statistical and endowment assessment methods developed for this increasingly mature world-class nickel sulphide province may constitute a benchmark approach adaptable to similar, less well known komatiite provinces elsewhere.

Supervisors

Supervisor: Dr. Alok. Porwal

Co-supervisor: Ass. Prof. Pietro Guji

Associate supervisor: Dr. Oliver Kreuzer

Associate supervisor: Prof. Stephen Beresford

Sponsors

Curtin University of Technology

Intierra Pty Ltd

Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)