Geoscience Australia's Onshore Energy Security Program investigated evidence for sandstone-hosted uranium systems in the Eromanga Basin. The assessment compiled literature reviews, 3D basin architecture maps, water chemistry, and geochemistry to evaluate mineralisation potential. The dataset includes findings on three potential mineralising events in the basin's western portion.
Use Cases
- Modeling uranium mineralisation systems based on the described five-questions framework addressing geodynamic history and fluid flow.
- Mapping potential fluid pathways and reservoir architecture using the compiled 3D basin map and lithology juxtaposition analysis.
- Assessing regional redox and pH fronts for uranium deposition based on the compiled groundwater hydrochemistry datasets.
Strengths
- Assessment covers a large geographic area of approximately 1,000,000 km² in central-eastern Australia.
- Analysis integrates multiple data types including literature review, 3D mapping, water chemistry, and detailed petrology.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia's Onshore Energy Security Program
- Collection Method
- Literature review, 3D mapping from public datasets, compilation of water chemistry, and geochemical analysis.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-23 02:57:06.810886; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Eromanga Basin, central-eastern Australia