EarthByte Seminar Series: Wang Tiangang

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An interesting EarthByte Seminar!
“Let’s dive into the exploration of Papua New Guinea at the EarthByte Seminar on July 10th, 2024!”
Wang Tiangang, a PhD and exploration geologist at the Nanjing Center of the China Geological Survey, will give an interesting talk about:
“Locating New Deposits from Geochemical Anomalies Integrated with Geological and Geophysical Information”

Seminar Details:

Locating New Deposits from Geochemical Anomalies Integrated with Geological and Geophysical Information

Abstract

Papua New Guinea, located along the collision zone among the Australian Plate, Pacific Plate, and Caroline Plate, is endowed with abundant mineral resources due to its unique tectonic position. Tens of deposits have been discovered in Papua New Guinea, and many more are yet to be explored. Systematic geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys have been conducted to find new deposits in Papua New Guinea. For example, national-scale, low-density geochemical mapping has been performed in recent years. The results show that Papua New Guinea has higher background levels of mineralization metals, such as Ag, Au, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Ti, V, and Zn, compared to the upper continental crust value and the National Geochemical Survey of Australia value. Many geochemical anomalies have been delineated accordingly. These results demonstrate that Papua New Guinea has great exploration potential for these metals. However, locating new deposits from these geochemical anomalies by integrating other geological and geophysical information remains an important question to be resolved.

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