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Copper: Australia's role in global innovation
an integrated perspective
CSIRO Mineral Resources
Jonathan Law| Director
June 2017
10 24 72
Australia’s innovation performanceConstraining productivity, prosperity, health and sustainability
10th
24th
72nd
Strong in terms of R&D
inputs
Middling in terms of
outputs
Weak global rank for
innovation efficiency
(ratio of R&D inputs to
outputs)
Source: Global Innovation Index 2015
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Mining3
University Institutes In-Business initiativesGovernment Research
mechanisms
HPC/Data Storage/Visualisation (iVEC/Pawsey)
Advanced Characterisation
Higher education
sector Industry
Research
Government
research
Foundation Research
Partners (100+ years)
Cooperative Ventures
(25+ years)
Research Delivery ‘portals’
(10+ years)
Domain specific
Research Centres
(5 - 10+ years)
Capability “Platforms”
(20+ years)
DET
CRC
Australian
Centre for
Geomechanics
Centre for
Exploration
Targeting
Australian Innovation System
CRC
Ore
Australian
Centre for
Field Robotics
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Voxelnet: the internet of space and time (the IOS&T)
Feedback to model
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Rapid resource characterisation
FOCUS
THE CHALLENGE
Quantifying resource
At all scales
Options: upstream &downstream
Productivityimprovement
Scenario management
Rapid resource
optimisation tools
In-situ ore analysis
Mineral systems for Brownfields exploration
Geological controls on
downstream processes
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Deep exploration technologies CRC
An eight-year research collaboration with industry to address major challenges in mineral exploration.
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Maia Mapper – fast chemistry at scale
2 cm
Mn
Ba Fe
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Fast, multiscale imaging
Knowledge Integration, digital rocks and Scaling
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Understanding ore from deposit
to process outcomes
Use cheap methods to predict expensive stuff
HyLoggerSisuRockHCI3
^
Geomet testing Maia element maps
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PredictGenerate unknown value + uncertainty
Characterisation Library of canonical
samples + data*
A Rosetta Stone for predictive analyticsRepresentative
samples
*this can be different data
types (e.g. chem vs
mineralogy), or same data
type at different scales (e.g.
XFM vs assay)
New samples/data
Are we happy with this
uncertainty?
Add to representative
samples
Job done!
NO
YES
ClassifyProbabilistically match
new sample against canonical samples
Prediction
Learning
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Selective mining
THE CHALLENGE
FOCUS
Automation Novel cutting tools
Sensing technology for mapping and
safety
Productivity
In-situ recovery
Reduced environmental
footprint
Mining Technology solutions
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Mining3: Transforming mining
The world’s largest independent mining research group focussed on industry’s greatest challenges.
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Enabling the cutting of very hard rock with compact and lightweight equipment
Using lower forces than those associated with conventional disc cutting
Decreased reliance on blasting
Testing underway and commercialisation estimated in late 2017
DynaCut ™ - Hard rock cutting
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In Line Recovery• Selective (Precision) Mining
• Pre-concentration at the face
• Value Mining (Margin over volume)
• Retention of 60-80% of material underground
• Smaller underground openings
In Mine Recovery• In Mine (Advanced) Leaching
Systems
• No Surface Tailings Storage, reduced waste disposal
• Smaller Surface Plant Infrastructure
In Situ Recovery• Low Surface footprint “The
Invisible Mine”
• No Tailings Generation
• No Entry Mining
• Low Capital Intensity
Towards the invisible mine
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Ore management
THE CHALLENGE
FOCUS
Heterogeneity Sensing Sorting
On-line and in-situ sensing
Process optimisation
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CRC ORE: optimising resource extraction
A global industry research initiative that aims to reverse the trend of declining feed grade through improved processes.
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Enabling Grade Engineering…
Orebody DNA
….by enhancing the head grade
Precision Blasting
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Bulk ore sorting: copper
• up to 30% uplift in productivity
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Resources, community and environment
THE CHALLENGE
FOCUS
Evidence base for impacts and benefits
Empowering citizen voices
Social licence to operate
Future business scenarios
NATIONAL OPTIONS & RESILIENCE
Decisions Industry Stakeholders Impacts
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Three steps to achieve deep social insights
1. Surveys of community perceptions
Contact
experience
Fairness
Impacts
Trust Approval/
acceptance
2. Sophisticated modelling of data
3. Insight delivery
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Some closing thoughts
• Most of these technologies are not in the ‘invent and build’ scope of a single miner / user• Time
• Resources
• Risk
• …..
• Too many bits and pieces• Our industry
• Other industries
• Integration is key
• Collaboration is more than leverage
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CSIRO MineralsJonathan LawDirector
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