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 potential mineralising events and favourable geological structures across the ~1,000,000 km² basin.
Use Cases
- Identify potential uranium mineralisation zones based on compiled geodynamic and stratigraphic data.
- Model subsurface fluid flow pathways using the constructed 3D map of basin architecture.
- Assess regional groundwater chemistry for redox and pH fronts relevant to uranium deposition.
- Correlate stratigraphic sequences and sandstone exposures with known uranium province models.
Strengths
- Covers a large geographic area of approximately 1,000,000 km² in central-eastern Australia.
- Assessment is based on a multi-method framework including 3D mapping, geochemistry, and literature review.
- Identifies specific favourable architectures for uranium deposits, such as sandstone packages bounded by impermeable shales.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Primary file formats are PDF and HTML, which may require extraction for quantitative analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Compilation and analysis from literature review, public datasets, water chemistry, and geochemical studies.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-30 13:47:10.314661; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Eromanga Basin, central-eastern Australia