Person
Noble, Ryan R. P.
- Occupation
- Geochemist and Geologist
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5827-1020
Summary
Ryan Noble is a geochemist whose research has direct application to the minerals exploration industry. His work has included numerous regolith and groundwater geochemistry projects related to gold, base metal, Ni, and U mineral exploration, with more recent studies on clay-sized fraction chemistry and spectral mineralogy using machine learning to put the results into landscape contexts. He established a comprehensive groundwater dataset and was involved in research into gas geochemistry. His work has included the development of ground-breaking soil analysis technology UltraFine+®, a gold exploration technique, with partners including the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia and the Geological Survey of Western Australia. In 2009 Noble joined the CSIRO, where he is now Senior Principal Research Scientist and the Group Leader of Predictive Mineral Systems Science. In 2024 he was awarded the Roy Woodall Medal for his leadership in advancing the scientific understanding of soil, regolith, groundwater, and gas geochemistry methodology.
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Chronology
- 2000
- Education - BSc, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- 2002
- Education - MSc, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- 2007
- Education - PhD, Curtin University
- 2009
- Career event - Joined CSIRO
- 2010 -
- Career position - Member of Council, Association of Applied Geochemists
- 2016 - 2017
- Career position - President, Association of Applied Geochemists
- 2019 -
- Career position - Representative of the Association of Applied Geochemists, Australian Geoscience Council
- 2023
- Award - Silver Medal, Association of Applied Geochemists
- 2024
- Award - Roy Woodall Medal, Australian Geosciences Council
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Published resources
Books
- Gray, David, Reid, Nathan, Noble, Ryan, Thorne, Robert and Giblin, Angela 2019, Hydrogeochemical mapping of the Australian Continent (Kensington, W.A.: CSIRO, 2019), 109 pp, https://doi.org/10.25919/5d8bb939ef2f2. Details
Journal Articles
- Noble, R. R. P, Morris, P. A., Anand, R. R., Lau, I. C. and Pinchand, G. T., 'Application of ultrafine fraction soil extraction and analysis for mineral exploration', Geochemistry: exploration, environment, analysis, 20 (2019), 129-54, https://doi.org/10.1444/geochem2019-009. Details
- Noble, Ryan and Plet, Chloe, 'Soil gasses in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments', Geochemistry: exploration, environment, analysis, 23 (3) (2023), 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1144/geochem2023-008. Details
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Created: 26 March 2026