| AMIRA | Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering | 
        
            | AMIRA | Australian Mineral Industry Research   Association | 
        
            | AMMRF | Australian Microscopy and   Microanalysis Research Facility | 
        
            | ANU | Australian National University | 
        
            | APA (I) | Australian Postgraduate Award   (Industry) | 
        
            | ARC | Australian Research Council | 
        
            | BMP | Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum | 
        
            | BSE | Backscattered Electrons | 
        
            | CAS | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
        
            | CAGS | Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences | 
        
            | CCFS | Core to Crust Fluid Systems | 
        
            | CET | Centre for Exploration Targeting | 
        
            | CMCA | Centre for Microscopy,   Characterisation and Analysis (UWA) | 
        
            | CNRS | French National Research Foundation | 
        
            | CoE | Centre of Excellence | 
        
            | COO | Chief Operating Officer | 
        
            | CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific Industrial   Research Organisation | 
        
            | CU | Curtin University | 
        
            | DECRA | Discovery Early Career Researcher   Award | 
        
            | DEST | Department of Education, Science and   Training (from 2002) | 
        
            | DIATREEM | Consulting company within Access MQ   Limited | 
        
            | DIISR | Department of Innovation, Industry,   Science and Research | 
        
            | DP | Discovery Project | 
        
            | EBSD | Electron Backscatter Diffraction | 
        
            | ECR | Early Career Researcher | 
        
            | ECSTAR | Early Career Start-up Awards for   Research | 
        
            | (D)EPS | (Department of) Earth and Planetary   Sciences | 
        
            | EMP | Electron Microprobe | 
        
            | GA | Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO) | 
        
            | GAU | Geochemical Analysis Unit (DEPS,   Macquarie University) | 
        
            | GEMOC | Geochemical Evolution of Metallogeny   of Continents | 
        
            | GEUS | Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland | 
        
            | GIS | Geographic Information System | 
        
            | GLAM | Global Lithospheric Architecture   Mapping | 
        
            | GLITTER | GEMOC Laser ICPMS Total Trace Element   Reduction software | 
        
            | GSWA | Geological Survey of Western Australia | 
        
            | ERA | Excellence in Research for Australia | 
        
            | FIM | Facility for   Integrated Microanalysis | 
        
            | FTIR | Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectroscopy | 
        
            | ICPMS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass   Spectrometer | 
        
            | IPRS | International Postgraduate Research   Scholarship | 
        
            | LAM-ICPMS | Laser Ablation Microprobe - ICPMS | 
        
            | LIEF | Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and   Facilities | 
        
            | MC-ICPMS | Multi-Collector - ICPMS | 
        
            | MERIWA | The Minerals and Energy Research   Institute of Western Australia | 
        
            | MQRDG | Macquarie University Research   Development Grant | 
        
            | (i)MQRES | (International) Macquarie University   Research Excellence Scholarships | 
        
            | NCRIS | National Collaborative Research   Infrastructure Scheme | 
        
            | NeCTAR | National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources | 
        
            | PGE | Platinum Group Element | 
        
            | PIRSA | Primary Industries and Resources,   South Australia | 
        
            | RIBG | Research Infrastructure Block Grant | 
        
            | RSES | Research School of Earth Sciences at   ANU | 
        
            | SAC | Science Advisory Committee | 
        
            | SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope | 
        
            | SIRF | Scholarship for International Research   Fees | 
        
            | TIGeR | The Institute for Geoscience Research | 
        
            | UWA | University of   Western Australia |