This project concluded in 2018 with research documenting the PhD research of Esmaeil Eshaghi (who graduated in 2017) being prepared for publication. In particular, our understanding of the upper crustal architecture of north and northwest Tasmania was improved through better constrained rock properties, such as density and magnetic susceptibility, property and geometry modelling. This enabled the 3D geometry of lithological units, for example granite bodies potentially associated with mineralisation, to be investigated and refined.

2017 saw the graduation of PhD candidate Esmaeil Eshaghi, who carried out a project – ‘Geophysical investigations of Tasmania at multiple scales’ – that used petrophysical measurements to improve our understanding of the upper crustal architecture of north and northwest Tasmania.

Esmaeil was supervised by Anya Reading and Michael Roach with Mark Duffett, from Mineral Resources Tasmania, as research advisor. The better constrained rock properties, such as density and magnetic susceptibility, enabled the 3D geometry of granite bodies, potentially associated with mineralisation, to be investigated and refined.