Post by CSIRO

This research is worth its weight in gold. 🏅 Despite frequent price fluctuations, gold's global appeal remains strong. It’s Australia’s third most valuable mineral export commodity after iron ore and coal. Our research is helping Australia find gold faster and more sustainably. Finding gold is no accident, there’s a science behind why it is where it is. And it’s quite abundant in Australia: we’re one of the world’s top producers. This is because gold does not occur randomly in the Earth’s crust. Its distribution is controlled by deep geological processes that played out billions of years ago, and some of the world’s best examples of those conditions are in our country. We’ve spent decades developing tools to help industry find high quality gold deposits more efficiently and with less environmental disturbance. One major shift has been moving beyond chemistry alone to focus on mineralogy, where understanding how minerals change around a deposit can be used to guide exploration. Technologies such as UltraFine+ based geochemical methods, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) have allowed us to work with partners to detect subtle signals associated with gold systems. Dig deeper into our gold research: https://lnkd.in/ew-u53JH