Andrew William McNeill

Tasmanian Government · Mineral Resources Tasmania

This Record documents the efforts of Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT) and Geoscience Australia (GA) in compiling a geochronology (age) compilation for Tasmania, describing both the dataset itself and the process by which it is incorporated into the continental-scale Isotopic Atlas of Australia. The Isotopic Atlas draws together age and isotopic dat...

The volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits of the Tasik Chini area, Peninsular Malaysia are hosted by Permian felsic volcanic rocks (¬ 290 Ma) of rhyolitic to rhyodacitic composition and comprise two deposits (Bukit Botol and Bukit Ketaya). Although the ores and the felsic volcanic host rocks of these deposits have metamorphosed to greens...

Over the last two decades, Mineral Resources Tasmania has been developing regional 3D geological and geophysical models for prospective terranes at a range of scales and extents as part of its suite of precompetitive geoscience products. These have evolved in conjunction with developments in 3D modeling technology over that time. Commencing with a...

We have developed a high-resolution 3D model of the Alberton-Mathinna section of the "Main Slide," northeast Tasmania. This geological model expresses a new synthesis based on mapping and structural interpretation on multiple cross sections. We have refined this model by 3D geophysical inversion constrained by gravity and magnetic survey data coupl...

We have developed a high-resolution 3D model of the Alberton-Mathinna section of the “Main Slide,” northeast Tasmania. This geological model expresses a new synthesis based on mapping and structural interpretation on multiple cross sections. We have refined this model by 3D geophysical inversion constrained by gravity and magnetic survey data coupl...

The Tonian to Ediacaran geology of Tasmania, Australia preserves an extensive record of continental rifting related to the Neoproterozoic opening of the Pacific Ocean. We integrate new and previously published structural, stratigraphic, sedimentary provenance, age, and geochemical data to establish four tectonostratigraphic stages in Tasmania that...

High-resolution trace element mapping (2 μm beam) was performed by synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXFM) on Cu- and Zn-rich chimneys from Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc. The maps cover 84- to 136-mm ² cross sections of the inner chimney walls and document the distribution of Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Sr, Pb ± Ga, Au, Bi, and U. Compa...

The Dovyren Intrusive Complex (DIC, Northern Baikal region, 728 Ma) includes the layered dunite-troctolite-gabbronorite Yoko-Dovyren massif (YDM), associated mafic-ultramafic sills, and dykes of olivine-rich to olivine-free gabbronorite. Major rock types of the DIC are presented, including a diversity of olivine orthocumulates to olivine-plagioclas...

The Dovyren intrusive complex includes the ore-bearing (Cu–Ni–PGE) Yoko–Dovyren layered pluton (728 Ma, up to 3.4 km in thickness), underlying ultramafic sills, and comagmatic leuconorite and gabbro-diabase dikes. Studies of Sr–Nd–Pb isotope systems were carried out for 24 intrusive rocks and five associated low- and high-Ti basalts. The high-Ti ba...

The Middle Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics of western Tasmania, Australia, host several world-class volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits, representing a wide range of deposit styles. Although the deposits and their host sequences are variably deformed and locally preserve spectacular examples of primary textures and structures, rapid later...

The Hellyer–Mt Charter region of western Tasmania includes three known and economically significant volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits. Thick vegetation and poor outcrop present a considerable challenge to ongoing detailed geological field mapping in this area. Numerous geophysical and soil geochemical datasets covering the Hellyer–Mt...

A new model of sulfur solubility in mafic and/or ultramafic silicate magmas, which accounts for the effects of pressure, temperature, oxygen fugacity, major element, and Ni contents in the silicate melt and the coexisting sulfide liquid, is presented in this paper. The model postulates the existence of positively charged Fe-Ni sulfide complexes in...

The paper reports newly obtained data on the geochronology of the Dovyren intrusive complex and associated metarhyolites of the Inyaptuk Formation in the Synnyr Range. The data were obtained by local LA-ICPMS analysis of zircons in samples. The U-Pb age of olivine-free gabbronorite from near the roof of the Yoko-Dovyren Massif is 730 ± 6 Ma (MSWD =...

Brothers caldera volcano is a submarine volcano of dacitic composition, located on the Kermadec arc, New Zealand. It hosts the NW caldera vent field perched on the steep slope of the caldera walls and includes numerous, active, high-temperature (max 302°C) chimneys and a greater amount of dead, sulfide-rich spires. Petrographic studies of these chi...

Brothers volcano is a dacitic volcano located along the Kermadec arc, New Zealand, and hosts the NW Caldera hydrothermal vent field perched on part of the steep caldera walls. The field strikes for ~600 m between depths of 1550 and 1700 m and includes numerous, active, high-temperature (max 302°C) chimneys and even more dead, sulfide-rich spires. C...

Field Guide and Extended Abstract volume from GSA Tasmania King Island Field Conference 2009

We have determined the near-solidus melt compositions for peridotite MM-3, a suitable composition for the production of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) by decompression partial melting, at 1 and 1 center dot 5 GPa. At 1 GPa the MM-3 composition has a subsolidus plagioclase-bearing spinel lherzolite assemblage, and a solidus at similar to 1270 degrees...

Melt inclusions in phenocrysts are a potentially powerful tool in petrological research that can provide the only direct information available on the physical parameters (P, T and melt composition) of crystallisation at various stages in the evolution of magmatic systems. However, melt inclusions also differ in principle from other parts of the mag...

Glass and mineral geochemical data are presented for basalts from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 896A. Phenocryst assemblages are dominated by calcic plagioclase (An 76 _ 945) with olivine (Fo 80 _ 91 6), Cr-Al spinel, and clinopyroxene. The ori-gin of the calcic plagioclase phenocrysts was investigated by heating-stage experiments on silicate m...

Mineral and whole-rock geochemical data are presented for chilled dike margins from the lower sheeted dike complex of Deep Sea Drilling Project/Ocean Drilling Program (DSDP/ODP) Hole 504B. Compositions of phenocrystic plagioclase (An g0 _ 89); olivine (Fo 82 _ 86); clinopyroxene (Wo 52 En 40 Fs 8 , with Cr 2 O 3 up to 1.2%); and rare chromian spine...

Mineral and whole-rock geochemical data are presented for chilled dike margins from the lower sheeted dike complex of Deep Sea Drilling Project/Ocean Drilling Program (DSDP/ODP) Hole 504B. Compositions of phenocrystic plagioclase (An80-89); olivine (Fo82-86); clinopyroxene (Wo52En40Fs8, with Cr2O3 up to 1.2%); and rare chromian spinel (Cr# 43) are...

Geochemically diverse mid-ocean ridge basalts recovered from the Siqueiros Transform Fault, in the east Pacific Ocean, were sulfide-saturated at eruption, on the basis of the presence of immiscible sulfide globules and major and trace element variations of pillow-rim glasses. Previous workers have interpreted, from the chemistry of silicate melt in...