Seabed ore systems publications
The following publications detail the work involved in the development of CSIRO’s Seabed ore systems.
Key publications
Binns RA, Parr JM, Yeats CJ, 2008, ‘The PACMANUS seafloor sulfide field, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea’, In: Proceedings PACRIM 2008 Congress, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, Publication Series, 11: 73-78.
Barriga FJAS, Binns RA, Miller DJ, Herzig PM (eds), 2007, ‘Anatomy of an Active, Felsic-Hosted Hydrothermal System, Eastern Manus Basin: Sites 1188-1191′, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: College Station, Texas, 105 pp, plus 15 chapters on CD-ROM.
Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, 2007, ‘1. Leg 193 synthesis: Anatomy of an active felsic-hosted hydrothermal system, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea’, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: 1-71
McConachy TF, Arculus RJ, Yeats CJ, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, McInnes BIA, Rakau B, Sestak S, Sharpe R, Tevei T, 2005, ‘New hydrothermal activity and alkali volcanism in the Coriolis back arc troughs, Vanuatu’, Geology, 33: 61-64.
Binns RA, 2004, ‘Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: guides for volcanogenic massive sulphide exploration from a modern seafloor analogue’, In: Copper-zinc massive sulphide deposits in Western Australia, McConachy TF, McInnes BIA (eds), CSIRO Explores, 2: 59-80.
McConachy TF, Permana H, Binns RA, Zulkarnain I, Parr JM, Yeats CJ, Hananto ND, Priadi B, Burhanuddin S, Utomo EP, 2004, ‘Recent investigations of submarine hydrothermal activity in Indonesia’, PACRIM 2004 Congress, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Publication Series, 5: 161-172.
Sun W, Arculus RJ, Kamenestky VS, Binns RA, 2004, ‘Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallisation’, Nature, 431: 975-978.
Binns RA, 2003, ‘Deep marine pumice from the Woodlark and Manus Basins, Papua New Guinea’, In: Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, White JDL, Smellie JL, Claque DA (eds), Geophysical Monograph 140, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC USA, pp 329-343.
Roberts S, Bach W, Binns RA, Vanko DA, Yeats CJ, Teagle DAH, Blacklock K, Blusztajn JS, Boyce A, Cooper M, Holland N, McDonald B, 2003, ‘Contrasting evolution of hydrothermal fluids in the PACMANUS system, Manus basin: The Sr and S isotope evidence’, Geology, 31: 805-808.
Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., 2002, ‘Anatomy of an active felsic-hosted hydrothermal system, eastern Manus Basin’, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 193: variously paginated.
Kamenetsky VS, Binns RA, Gemmell JB, Crawford AJ, Mernagh TP, Maas R, Steele D, 2001, ‘Parental basaltic melts and fluids in eastern Manus backarc basin: implications for hydrothermal mineralization’, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 184: 685-702.
McInnes BIA, Gregoire M, Binns RA, Herzig PM, Hannington MD, 2001, ‘Hydrous metasomatism of oceanic sub-arc mantle, Lihir, Papua New Guinea; petrology and geochemistry of fluid-metasomatised mantle wedge xenoliths’, Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 188: 169-183.
Moss R, Scott SD, Binns RA, 2001, ‘Gold content of eastern Manus basin volcanic rocks: implications for enrichment in associated hydrothermal precipitates’, Economic Geology, 96: 91-108.
Binns RA, Dekker DL, 1998, ‘The mineral wealth of the Bismarck Sea’, Scientific American Presents ‘The Oceans’, 9: 92-97.
Binns RA, Parr JM, Gemmell JB, Whitford DJ, Dean JA, 1997, ‘Nature and source of precious metals in barite-silica chimneys from Franklin Seamount, Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Marine Geology, 142: 119-141.
Bogdanov YA, Lisitzin AP, Binns RA, Gorshkov AI, Gurvich EG, Dritz VA, Dubinina GA, Bogdanova YO, Sivkov AV, Kuptsov VM, 1997, ‘Low-temperature Hydrothermal Deposits of Franklin Seamount, Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Marine Geology, 142: 99-117.
Binns RA, Parr JM, Scott SD, Gemmell JB, Herzig P, 1995, ‘PACMANUS: an active siliceous volcanic-hosted hydrothermal field in the eastern Manus basin, Papua New Guinea’, Proceedings Pacific Rim ’95 Congress, Auckland, NZ, Aus.I.M.M.Publ., 9: 49-94.
Scott SD, Binns RA, 1995, ‘Hydrothermal processes and contrasting styles of mineralization in the western Woodlark and eastern Manus basins of the western Pacific’, In: Hydrothermal Vents and Processes, Parson LM, Walker CL, Dixon D (eds), Geological Society of London Special Publication, 87: 191-205.
Binns RA, Scott SD, 1993, ‘Actively forming polymetallic sulfide deposits associated with felsic volcanic rocks in the eastern Manus back-arc basin, Papua New Guinea’, Economic Geology, 88: 2226-2236.
Binns RA, Scott SD, Bogdanov YA, Lisitsin AP, Gordeev VV, Gurvich EG, Finlayson EJ, Boyd T, Dotter LE, Wheller GE, Muravyev KG, 1993, ‘Hydrothermal oxide and gold-rich sulfate deposits of Franklin Seamount, Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Economic Geology, 88: 2122-2153.
Other publications
Sun WD, Binns RA, Fan AC, Kamenetsky VS, Wysoczanski R, Wei GJ, Hu YH, Arculus RJ, 2007, ‘Chlorine in submarine volcanic glasses from the eastern Manus Basin’, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 71: 1542-1552.
Binns RA, 2006, ‘Petrography and Geochemistry of Jasperoids from Site 1189, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 193′, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports, 193: 1-3.
Binns RA, 2006, ‘Geochemistry of massive and semimassive sulfides from Site 1189, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 193′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: chap. 206, Barriga FJAS, Binns RA, Miller DJ, Herzig PM (eds)
Bach W, Roberts S, Binns RA, 2005, ‘Chemical and isotopic (S, Sr) composition of anhydrite from ODP Leg 193, PACMANUS hydrothermal system, Manus basin, Papua New Guinea’, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: chap. 214, Barriga FJAS, Binns RA, Miller DJ, Herzig PM (eds)
Bach W, Roberts SR, Vanko DA, Binns RA, Yeats CJ, Craddock PR, Humphris SE, 2004, ‘Controls of fluid chemistry and complexation on rare earth element contents of anhydrite from the PACMANUS subseafloor hydrothermal system, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Mineralium Deposita, 38: 916-935.
Binns RA, Dotter LE, Blacklock KA, 2004, ‘Chemistry of borehole fluids collected at PACMANUS, Papua New Guinea, ODP Leg 193′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: chap. 210, Barriga FJAS, Binns RA, Miller DJ, Herzig PM (eds)
Binns RA, 2004, ‘Spinifex-textured basalt xenoliths at PACMANUS, Papua New Guinea’, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 193: chap. 212, Barriga FJAS, Binns RA, Miller DJ, Herzig PM (eds)
Barriga F, Binns R, Miller J, 2003, ‘Treasure in the making under the sea floor’, In: ODP Highlights, White K, Urquart E (eds), Joint Oceanographic Institutes, Washington DC, pp 8-9.
Binns RA, Barriga FJAS Miller DJ, et al., 2003, ‘Anatomy of an active hydrothermal system hosted by felsic volcanic rocks at a convergent plate margin; ODP Leg 193′, JOIDES Journal, 28: 2-7.
Sun W, Arculus RJ, Bennett VC, Eggins SM, Binns RA, 2003, ‘Evidence for rhenium enrichment in the mantle wedge from submarine arc-like volcanic glasses (Papua New Guinea)’, Geology, 31: 845-848.
Arculus RJ, McConachy TF, Binns RA, McInnes BIA, Yeats CJ, 2002, ‘Submarine magmatic and hydrothermal processes in volcanic arcs-backarcs of the southwestern Pacific region’, Australasian Inst. Mining & Metallurgy, (PACRIM’02), 6: 155-160.
Binns RA, McConachy TF, Parr JM, Yeats CJ, 2002, ‘The PACMANUS memoir (P2+)’, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Report 1032C (CD-ROM).
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Leg 193 summary’, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 1-84.
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Explanatory notes’, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 72 pp. (CD-ROM, ODP, Texas A&M University, College Station TX USA).
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Site 1188′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 305 pp. (CD-ROM, ODP, Texas A&M University, College Station TX USA).
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Site 1189′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 259 pp. (CD-ROM, ODP, Texas A&M University, College Station TX USA).
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Site 1190′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 15 pp. (CD-ROM, ODP, Texas A&M University, College Station TX USA).
Shipboard Scientific Party (incl. Binns RA), 2002, ‘Site 1191′, In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, Miller DJ, et al., Initial Reports, 193: 46 pp. (CD-ROM, ODP, Texas A&M University, College Station TX USA).
Binns RA, Parr JP, Waters JC, Yeats CJ, 2000, ‘The PACMANUS Memoir: CSIRO Exploration and Mining Restricted Report’. Interactive CD-ROM.
Dekker D, Binns RA, 2000, ‘The potential for undersea mining’, Berita Sedimentologi, 14: 24-27.
Gamberi F, Marani MP, Parr JM, Binns RA, 1999, ‘Sub-seafloor mineralisation at the Panarea shallow-water platform, Aeolian volcanic arc, Italy’, In: Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing, Stanley CJ, et al., Eds Balkema, Rotterdam.
Gemmell JB, Binns RA, Parr JM, 1999, ‘Submarine, high-sulfidation alteration within DESMOS caldera, Manus Basin, PNG’, In: Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing, Stanley CJ, et al., Eds Balkema, Rotterdam, pp 503-506.
Marani MP, Gamberi F, Binns R A, Parr JM, 1999, ‘Results from recent seabed sampling of hydrothermal deposits in the south Tyrrhenian Sea’, In: Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing, Stanley CJ, et al., Eds Balkema, Rotterdam.
Gamo T, Binns RA, et al., 1997, ‘Acidic and sulfate-rich hydrothermal fluids from the Manus back-arc basin, Papua New Guinea’, Geology, 25: 139-142.
Moss R, Scott SD, Binns RA, 1997, ‘Concentrations of gold and other ore metals in the volcanics hosting the PACMANUS seafloor sulfide deposit’, JAMSTEC Journal of Deep Sea Research, 13: 257-267.
Scott SD, Binns RA, Yang K, (1997), ‘Massive sulfide-forming systems on the present-day ocean floor’, In: Mineral Deposits: Research and Exploration – Where do they Meet?, Papunen H (ed), Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 19-22.
Auzende J-M, Urabe T, Binns RA, et al., 1996, ‘Cruise explores hydrothermal vents of the Manus Basin’, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 77: 244.
Auzende J-M, Urabe T, Binns RA, Charlou J-L, Gena K, Gamo T, Henry K, Matsubayashi O, Matsumoto T, Moss R, Naka J, Nagaya Y, Okamura K, Ruellan E, 1996, ‘Activité tectonique, magmatique et hydrothermale dans le bassin de Manus (SW Pacifique, Papaouasie-Nouvelle Guinée): campagne MANUSFLUX du Shinkai-6500′, Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, séries IIA, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes, 323: 501-508.
Parr JM, Murao S, Binns RA, 1995, ‘A comparison of massive sulfide deposits forming at the PACMANUS (Manus Basin, PNG) and JADE (Okinawa Trough, South China Sea) seafloor hydrothermal fields’, Proceedings Pacific Rim ’95 Congress, Auckland, NZ, Aus.I.M.M. Publ., 9: 453-458.
Benes V, Scott SD, Binns RA, 1994, ‘Tectonics of rift propagation into a continental margin: Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99: 4439-4455.
Binns RA, 1994, ‘Submarine deposits of base and precious metals in Papua New Guinea’, In: Proceedings PNG Geology, Exploration and Mining Conference, Rogerson R (ed), Lae. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, pp. 71-83.
Herzig P, Hannington M, McInnes B, Stoffers P, Villinger H, Seifert R, Binns RA, Liebe T, 1994, ‘Submarine volcanism and hydrothermal venting studied in Papua New Guinea’, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 75: 513-516.
Parr J, Binns RA, 1994, ‘Mining the sea floor: an untapped source of valuable metals’, Search, 25: 41-44.
Binns RA, 1991, ‘Diving for mineral deposits in the Woodlark Basin’, Search, 22: 20-22.
Lisitsin AP, Binns RA, Bogdanov YA, Scott SD, Zonenshain LP, Gordeev VV, Gurvich EG, Murav’yev KG, Serova VV, 1991, ‘Present day hydrothermal activity of Franklin Seamount and the western part of the Woodlark Sea (Papua New Guinea)’, Isvestia Academy of Sciences USSR, Geology Series, 8:125-140 (in Russian, English translation in International Geology Reviews, 33: 914-929).
Binns RA, Scott SD, PACLARK participants, 1987, ‘Western Woodlark Basin: potential analogue setting for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits’, Pacific Rim Congress, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, 1: 531-535.
Binns RA, Whitford DJ, 1987, ‘Volcanic rocks from the Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea’, Pacific Rim Congress, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, 1: 525-529.