Geophysical Response of the Silver SwaN Nickel Sulphide Deposit Western Australia

William J. Amann; Risto Pietila

doi:10.1071/EG998273

ISSN: 0812-3985
E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Geophysical Response of the Silver SwaN Nickel Sulphide Deposit Western Australia
Authors William J. Amann^a and Risto Pietila^b
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^a Outokumpu Mining Australia Pty Ltd , 141 Burswood Road, Burswood, Western Australia, , 6100, Phone: 0893347333, Facsimile: 0894723168, E-mail: bill, amann @ outokumpu. com ^b Outokumpu Mining Oy Tehtaankatu, 2 FIN-83500 Outokumpu, Finland, Phone: 358 135561, Facsimile: 358 13556310, E-mail: [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: Exploration Geophysics, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Sep 1998, p. 273 - 279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EG998273
- Published online: 01 Sep 1998

Abstract

The Silver Swan is a massive sulphide, high grade (14%) nickel deposit, located on the basal contact of an Archaean komatiite, 43 kms north east of Kalgoorlie Western Australia. Its high conductivity contrast with the host rock has allowed down hole electromagnetic techniques to be most useful for directing deep drilling. Due to the deposit’s high grade and the role geophysics has played in its exploration this paper should be very interesting for geoscientists involved in massive nickel sulphide exploration.

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Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): Archaean; downhole logging; electromagnetics; geophysics; komatiite; Kumalpi; mise-a-la-masse; nickel; SH51-10

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