PhD student
School of Earth Sciences - Centre for Exploration Targeting
Contact details
Address
Robert Street Building - Room 226
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
School of Earth Sciences
The University of Western Australia (M006)
35 Stirling Highway
PERTH WA 6009
Email
madeleine.ince@research.uwa.edu.au
Madeleine completed her Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) in
2018 at UWA with a geology and marine science double major which included a
semester abroad at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Although she should have probably spent her summers
doing internships, she spent them travelling to North America, South America
and Europe where she gained an appreciation of how little she knew about
geological processes around the world, which motivated her to continue
studying.
Her honours project
focused on small orthomagmatic Ni-Cu deposits in Northern Czech Republic and
focused on characterising these deposits through geochemistry, sulfur isotope
analysis and U-Pb isotope analysis to understand the geodynamic environment at
the time of emplacement.
In 2019, she continued her studies at UWA and started a PhD
under the supervision of Prof. Steffen Hagemann and A. Prof. Marco Fiorentini.
Her project focuses on Cu-Au porphyry systems of the Argentinian Central Andes
and aims to examine the petrogenesis of different porphyry intrusions,
including the Bajo de la Alumbrera and Taca Taca deposits, and link this to
Cu-Au mineralisation. She will be tackling some fundamental questions in the
region, including why some systems are more mineralised than others, what the
physico-chemical conditions of magma formation are and the source of
magma/metals/sulfur in the studied systems, and what the geodynamic evolution
actually looked like in the Oligocene to late Miocene period. This will be
investigated through a combination of fieldwork, petrography and isotope
geochemistry, with a focus on U-Pb geochronology, stable isotope analyses and
Lu-Hf systematics of zircons from mineralising and barren porphyries within the
Bajo de la Alumbrera and Taca Taca systems.