Recent publications
Mineral Resources Tasmania has a proven track record of delivering geoscientific information for the benefit of Earth scientists, miners and mineral explorers in the state. Below is a list of MRT's publications since 2020. Gaps in the numbering system may be due to some reports remaining confidential, or yet to be published.
Technical Reports
Technical Reports are geological reports published by Mineral Resources Tasmania via TIGER. Links to reports are provided below.
MRT papers
Papers published by Mineral Resources Tasmania via TIGER. Links to papers are provided below.
Externally published papers
Papers featuring MRT authors, or funded by MRT, but published in external journals.
| Title | Journal | Author(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | Berry, R.F., Everard, J.L., Bottrill, R.S., Meffre, S. | In press (2025) |
| Geoscience Frontiers | Brown, D.A., Hand, M., Morrissey, L.J., Payne, J.L., McNeill, A.W. | 01/05/2025 | |
| Nature: Scientific Reports | Jutzeler, M., Carey, R.J., Dagasan, Y., McNeill, A.W., Cas, R.A.F. | 30/12/2024 | |
| Precambrian Reasearch | Armistead, S., Meffre, S., Bottrill, R.S., Cross, A., Huston, D., Cumming, G. | 01/12/2024 | |
| Resistivity anomalies in the shallow and deep crust beneath West Tasmania from a broadband magnetotelluric 2D transect | Exploration Geophysics | Ostersen, T., Reading, A., Cracknell, M.J., Roach, M., Duffett, M.L., Bombardieri, D., McNeill, A.W., Fomin, T., Brand, K.E., Thiel, S., Boren, G., Heinson, G. | 18/09/2024 |
| Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis | Zivkovic, Z., Halley, S., Vicary, M., Baker, M., Cracknell, M.J., Barker, S. | 09/05/2024 | |
| Geology | Xu, X., Bain, W.M., Tornos, F., Hanchar, J.M., Lamadrid, H.M., Lehmann, B., Xu, X., Steadman, J.A., Bottrill, R.S., Soleymani, M., Rajabi, A., Li, P., Tan, X., Xu, S., Locock, A.J., Steele-MacInnis, M. | 01/03/2024 | |
| Mesoproterozoic age for andalusite in the lower Rocky Cape Group, northwest Tasmania | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | Cumming, G., Berry, R.F., Bottrill, R.S., Armistead, S.E., Everard, J.L., Bomobardieri, D., Goemann, K., Meffre, S. | 21/02/2024 |
| The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | Gray, D.R., Vicary, M.J., McNeill, A.W. | 06/12/2023 |
| Comparison of lithium borate fusion and four acid digestions for the determination of whole rock chemistry – implications for lithogeochemistry and mineral exploration | Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis | Zivkovic, Z., Danyushevsky, L., Halley, S., Barker, S., Baker, M. | 30/05/2023 |
| Isotopic Atlas of Australia: Geochronology compilation for Tasmania Version 1.0 | Geoscience Australia Record | Jones, S.L., Waltenberg, K., Ramesh, R., Cumming, G., Everard, J.L., Vicary, M.J., Bodorkos, S., Bottrill, R.S., Knight, K., McNeill, A.W., Meffre, S. | 01/12/2022 |
| Gondwana Reasearch | Jones, C.L., Orovan, E.A., Meffre, S., Thompson, J., Belousova, E.A., Cracknell, M.J., Everard, J.L., Bottrill, R.S., Bodorkos, S., Cooke, D.R. | 01/10/2022 | |
| SSRN | Habib, U., Meffre, S., Berry, R.F., Belousova, E.A., Bottrill, R.S. | 03/06/2022 | |
| Geochronological studies of selected Australian mineral deposits | Geoscience Australia Record | Huston, D., Norman, M.D., Maas, R., Miggins, D., Thiede, D.S., Vasconcelos, P., Creaser, R.A., Cross, A.J., Bennett, V., Bottrill, R.S., Lisitsin, V., Duncan, R., Forster, D., Brauhart, C., Dhnaram, C., Champion, D.C., Czarnota, K., Whitaker, A. | 01/01/2022 |
| Complex REE systematics of carbonatites and weathering products from uniquely rich Mount Weld REE deposit, Western Australia | Ore Geology Reviews | Zhukova, I.A., Stepanov, A.S., Jiang, S.Y., Murphy, D., Mavrogenes, J., Allen, C., Chen, W., Bottrill, R.S. | 01/12/2021 |
| Marine and Petroleum Geology | Khalifa, M.Kh., Bottrill, R.S., Targhi, M.H. | 01/10/2021 | |
| Economic Geology | Denholm, J.L., Stepanov, A.S., Meffre, S., Bottrill, R.S., Thompson, J. | 01/10/2021 | |
| Minerals | Bombardieri, D., Duffett, M., McNeill, A.W., Cracknell, M., Reading, A. | 27/08/2021 | |
| The Adelaide mine, Dundas: an update | Australian Journal of Mineralogy | Bottrill, R.S. | 01/06/2021 |
| Lithostratigraphy of the upper Lower Devonian through the upper Middle Devonian succession of the southeast Darling Basin, western New South Wales, southeastern Australia: a case study of sedimentological features and significance of depositional facies | Arabian Journal of Geosciences | Khalifa, M.Kh., Bottrill, R.S. | 14/03/2021 |
| The Mount Lyell mines, Tasmania | Australian Journal of Mineralogy | Bottrill, R.S., Latham, M., Sorrell, S., Olubas, P. | 01/12/2020 |
| Geophysics | Eshaghi, E., Reading, A.M., Roach, M., Duffett, M., Bombardieri, D., Cracknell, M.J., Everard, J.L., Cumming, G., Kuhn, S. | 28/07/2020 | |
| Neoproterozoic opening of the Pacific Ocean recorded by multi-stage rifting in Tasmania, Australia | Earth Science Reviews | Mulder, J.A., Everard, J.L., Cumming, G., Meffre, S., Bottrill, R.S., Merdith, A.S., Halpin, J.A., McNeill, A.W., Cawood, P.A. | 01/02/2020 |
Other reports and data
Other reports and data are published/supported by MRT, or related to MRT research such as field guides and rehabilitation reports.