This Australian Miner Article Nov 14,2018 Interesting also This will be of some benefit to the exploration effort at Beta Hunt , I would believe.
Open day a rich mine for geology
Josh Chiat
Wednesday, 14 November 2018 9:29PM
Exploration secrets from the Goldfields will be unfurled at the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety’s Geological Survey of WA open day in Kalgoorlie-Boulder today.
The GSWA will open the doors of its Kalgoorlie-Boulder office to the public from 2pm to give an insight into the collection at the Joe Lord core library, an archive containing geological information worth millions of dollars, according to GSWA manager 4-D geodynamics Hugh Smithies.
“It’s nowhere near as large as the one we have down in Perth but it’s big and it’s full, ” he said. “It’s certainly well in the order of many millions of dollars, but it’s hard to place a real price on it. Some of us would argue it’s priceless.”
Core from Exploration Incentive Scheme-funded drilling done by Gold Fields at its Invincible deposit near Kambalda will be on show, alongside other core collected through the State Government-funded drilling program.
Dr Smithies and Klaus Gessner, from the GSWA’s lithospheric architecture branch, will present at the Raglan Drilling Geology Lecture Series at the Hannans Club tonight as part of the event.
Dr Gessner will discuss a landmark seismic survey taking place next year to map the gold-rich district surrounding Kalgoorlie-Boulder from Broad Arrow in the north to Kambalda in the south.
The $1.5 million program will be the first government-backed 3-D seismic survey in the region to test for potentially mineable resources under cover within 5km of the Earth’s surface.
“What makes this survey unique is it’s a series of parallel lines so we can image a number of closely spaced cross-sections and start to infer three-dimensional volumes,” Dr Smithies said. “Also, this one’s been optimised to image the top few kilometres of the crust.”