b'Geophysics in CSIRONewsCSIRO: The Cloncurry METAL project deliversThe Cloncurry METAL (multi-element toolkit and laboratory) project, a three year $1.13M multi-disciplinary collaborative project, was completed on 30 June. The project addresses a fundamental problem in geoscience data integration, the issue of scalability. By adopting a scale-consistent approach the project made advances in generating methodologies that convert geological and geochemical processes into scalar physical properties, vectors to mineralisation, which are critical to underpin both big data and regional geophysical approaches to resource exploration. The project developed methods utilising magnetic fabric analyses to quantify structural controls on mineralisation and geophysical methods for mapping redox gradients, fresh ideas to help industry find the next big deposit in one of Australias most important mineral provinces.Cloncurry METAL was underpinned by intensive field sampling, laboratoryVectors to mineralisation: Geophysicist and project lead Jim Austin, structural geologist Helen McFarlane work and substantial data processing,and mineralogist Tobias Schlegel undertaking scale integrated, multidisciplinary field work atop the Starra Ironstone, south of Cloncurry.which lead to a unique scale-integrated relational database, characterising the 23 deposits and their host sequences across the Cloncurry Mineral System. The project generated methodologies to integrate this data with more traditional geoscience and will culminate in a series of toolkits which will be presented to industry in two major workshops in Mount Isa (26 August) and at the AEGC conference in Brisbane (20 September). The project was a truly collaborative effort, involving staff from the Geological Survey of Queensland, staff from the Sustainable mining institute (UQ) the Centre for Ore Deposits and Earth Sciences (UTas) and senior staff from the major mines in the district. It drew on a diverse range of researchers across multiple disciplines, including CSIRO teams: Ore Body Geoscience, Potential Fields Geophysics, Hydrothermal Footprints, Mineral Footprints, Geodynamics/Geology, and Minerals and Water.Jim Austin Mineral Resources, CSIROjames.austin@csiro.auAUGUST 2021 PREVIEW 30'