Siem Reap has 98km of new roads and new sidewalks much of which has been paved with interesting felsic intrusive rocks from quarries in Shandong Province in China. The composition ranges from granodiorite to tonalite and is locally granophyric and pegmatitic. The intrusive consists dominantly of plagioclase, quartz, pyroxene and »
This post is a summary and review of Murphy, B., Hjuizenga, J. and Bedrosian, P., 2022. Graphite as an electrically conductive indicator of ancient crustal-scale fluid flow within mineral systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117700 Summary Magnetotelluric (MT) imaging has shown an apparent connection between crustal-scale electrical conductivity anomalies »
Below is an exceptional article from the Queenslander of 1924. A remarkable record so soon after the discovery of Mt Isa and replete with the excitement of such a significant discovery. At the time of writing a mere 145 tons of ore had been shipped. The original has been transcribed »
