ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits – CODES

PhD Projects – Utas Elite Scholarships

Analytical Geochemistry

• In-situ quantification of ultra low-level Au and Pt contents in organic-rich sedimentary rocks by laser-ablation quadrupole ICPMS

Geophysics

• Ocean wave monitoring using on-land recordings of seismic energy
• Deep structure and tectonic evolution of western Tasmania from ambient seismic and potential field data
• A geophysical and petrophysical investigation of West Tasmania
• The rapid inversion of EM

Magmas, Metals and Volatiles

• Evolution of metals and volatiles in arc and back-arc magmas: A study of submarine glasses and melt inclusions in phenocrysts
• Volatile and metal budgets in silicic large igneous provinces

Ore Genesis

• Characteristics, origins and controls on high grade gold mineralisation in the Caspiche porphyry – epithermal deposit, Chile
• Geological and geochemical vectors to mineralisation at the Resolution porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit, Arizona
• Magmatic-hydrothermal volatile exsolution and mineralisation in Tasmanian Sn granites
• Geological setting and origin of high-sulfidation Cu±(Au) ore, Monywa District, Central Myanmar
• Origin of sediment-hosted gold deposits in Mogok Metamorphic Belt, Myanmar

Physical Volcanology

• Mechanisms and products of seafloor caldera-forming eruptions – Izu-Bonin Arc and Mount Read Volcanics

Sedimentary Basins

• The redox state and composition of northern Australian late Paleoproterozoic seas: why were the next billion years ‘boring’, and what has any of this to do with mineral deposits?
• Geological setting and ore genesis of the Kayelekera Uranium Mine, Malawi