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DET CRC: Technology for DET CRC: Technology for Exploration Under CoverExploration Under Cover
8th SA Exploration and Mining ConferenceAdelaide, Friday 2 December 2011
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DET CRC: Technology for DET CRC: Technology for Exploration Under CoverExploration Under Cover
Source: Richard Schodde, 2010
7 x T1
1979 1993
1 x T1
1994 200880% Austalianproduction from mines
>30 years old
Distribution of ResearchersDistribution of Researchers
Source: OECD Main Science Technology Indicators (MSTI) 2006/1
Firms Collaborating on InnovationFirms Collaborating on Innovation
0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0
Australia (2006-07)
Turkey
Estonia
United Kingdom
New Zealand (2006-07)
Hungary
Ireland
Denmark
Slovak Republic
Poland
Czech Republic
Portugal
Netherlands
Spain
Norway
Luxembourg
France
Greece
Austria
Belgium
Slovenia
Finland
0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0
New Zealand (2006-07)
United Kingdom
Turkey
Australia (2006-07)
Denmark
Poland
Spain
Slovak Republic
Norway
Estonia
Luxembourg
Ireland
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Portugal
France
Hungary
Sweden
Belgium
Greece
Austria
Slovenia
Finland
Government Research Institutes
Higher Education Sector
Source: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009 - OECD © 2009
Large Firms
SMEs
• minex needs innovation• world-class researchers in universities and government institutes• lack of collaboration between public sector researchers and industry• CRC porovides mechanism for industry to drive research agenda
Jumping the Innovation GapJumping the Innovation Gap
• purpose• participants• projects• progress• plans
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What is the DET CRC?What is the DET CRC?
• not-for-profit company with independent, skills-based board and representative Science Steering Committee
• $28M cash support over 8 years from Government
• $25M cash & $62M in-kind from participants• world’s best-supported independent minex
research initiative• technology not science: impacting exploration
workflow• industry-driven: projects from AMIRA’s drilling
technology roadmap• participants: $450k pa (~31:1 leverage)• affiliates: $10k pa (producer/explorer, supplier
and survey colleges; US$1B market cap limit for producer/explorer affiliates)
R&D Tax Incentive R&D Tax Incentive SchemeScheme
• replacing R&D Tax Offset System from 1 July 2011• increased benefit for small business: 45%
refundable tax offset on eligible R&D spend (equivalent of a 150% tax deduction compared to current 125% tax deduction)
• ‘small’ business revenue now <$20M (was <$5M)• ‘R&D activities now need to contain innovation and
technical risk rather than just one or the other• contributions to CRC’s constitute eligible
expenditure and are not subject to $20k minimum spend threshold
Small Old(<$5M turnover)
New(<$20M turnover)
CRC $10k $10k
Refund $3.75k ($10k x 1.25 x 30%) $4.5k ($10k x 45%)
~100 researchers in 8 different organisations
IP and Role of Service ProvidersIP and Role of Service Providers
Mining Companies
Drilling Equipment Manufacturers/
Technology Service Providers
R&D Providers
Research & Technology Transfer
Drilling equipment manufacturers & service providers offer a natural
route to commercialisation
Mining companies and geological surveys are
the end users
IP Creation
DETCRC
IP Licencing
IP Utilization
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Research Project AreasResearch Project Areas
• Next Generation Drilling Technologies
• Fundamentals of Rock Fragmentation
• Drilling Optimisation
• National Drilling Testing & Training Facility
Drilling Technologies
Logging and Sensing
Deep Targeting
• In Front of Bit Sensors for Real-Time Drilling Optimisation
• Sensors for Rapid Down-Hole Rock Characterisation
• Integration of Geophysical & Petrophysical Data for Timely Mineral & Lithology Discrimination
• Joint Inversion of 3D Seismic and MT Data
• 3D Seismic for Hard Rock Environments
• Hypogene Alteration as a Vector for Drilling
• Defining and sampling deep cover
• SA case study integration
• are we always going to send core for assay?• are we always going to drill straight holes?• can we drill follow-up holes without de-mob?• can we increase effective radius of the borehole?
Coiled Tubing DrillingCoiled Tubing Drilling• ~1,000m Alberta gas wells with 4.5” casing• 1000s of wells drilled annually by CT• soft, predictable sedimentary rocks• 2-3 hours move in and rig up time (minimal
surface preparation/disruption)• fast penetration rates: up to100m/hr• 2 wells/day achieved• $US 8,000 per well for drilling (excludes
surface pipe, spudding in, casing, cement and wellhead)
• improved cost, hole stability, safety and environmental impact
• key challenges for minex include: coil durability & downhole impact tool
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Research highlights
1.1. Lab equipment Lab equipment for rock cutting analysis for rock cutting analysis commissioned & initial commissioned & initial experimentsexperiments identified ‘identified ‘cutting’ and ‘polishing’ regimes of diamond cutting’ and ‘polishing’ regimes of diamond bits.bits.
2.2. Carbon Carbon fibre fibre rod rod with embedded sensors with embedded sensors manufactured manufactured and and lablab--tested.tested.3.3. ‘‘RRod od alignment sensor’ alignment sensor’ prototype constructed.prototype constructed.4.4. Boart Boart Longyear’s SC9 drill rig and research equipment commissioned Longyear’s SC9 drill rig and research equipment commissioned
and drilling at and drilling at Brukunga.Brukunga.5.5. SWD SWD tests confirmed that detectable seismic signals tests confirmed that detectable seismic signals from percussion from percussion
bit and not rig bit and not rig noise and noise and seismometers seismometers set set up for testing up for testing signal signal from from the test rig's diamond bit at the test rig's diamond bit at Brukunga.Brukunga.
6.6. Circuitry completed Circuitry completed for for world's world's first first LWD LWD system for system for minex comprising minex comprising a a natural gamma sensor natural gamma sensor to to be sent downhole be sent downhole on on shuttle and retrieved shuttle and retrieved with with rods.rods.
7.7. Geochemical Geochemical neutron logging tool designed and neutron logging tool designed and manufactured.manufactured.8.8. Seismic Seismic survey survey at Rex at Rex Minerals’ Hillside copperMinerals’ Hillside copper--gold gold discovery.discovery.9.9. Best Best practice guide prepared for practice guide prepared for increasingly popular field XRFs.increasingly popular field XRFs.10.10.Calcrete sampling results, patent being considered.Calcrete sampling results, patent being considered.
Top 10 Research OutcomesTop 10 Research Outcomes
• ~$2M from CRC 2011-2013• ~$1M in additional external grants
Drilling Research and Training FacilityDrilling Research and Training Facility
DET CRC Brukunga real-time drilling parameter logging system
(e.g. WOB, torque, hook load) to be fitted to Newcrest rig
3 pilot driller training
programs
24 unemployed trainees, 15 now in drilling industry
18 PhD projects
commenced
Target of 40 PhD
completions over 8 years
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PACE Type Contract to drill X,000m on Xkmby Xkm grid through cover for basement
and/or unconformity sample at $50/m
Program 1CT Rig
capable of drilling through
cover at $50/metre and
sampling basement
and/or unconformity
Program 3Dispersion
&/or alteration vector that increases
halo to 5km x 5km
Technology PushTechnology Push(R&D Providers)(R&D Providers)Market Market PullPull
(Mining Companies)(Mining Companies)
area explored with % likelihood of discovering all existing buried mineral deposits
MiningCompanies
R&D Providers
Suppliers
DISCO-VERY
Commercialisation (Suppliers)
PACE Type Contract to drill 130,000m on 10km x 10km
grid through cover for basement and/or
unconformity sample at $50/m: $6.5M
PACE Type Contract to drill 520,000m on 5km x 5km grid through cover for basement and/or unconformity sample
at $50/m: $26M
Combined with 5km x 5km vectoring (lab-on-the-rig)
technologies, every IOCG-type mineralized system in
the province would be discovered
• need for innovation in minex• more cost-effective, safer and more
environmentally friendly methods of mineral exploration
• structure, projects and early progress of the DET CRC
• role of suppliers in commercialisation• regional drilling proposal• invitation if you wish to be involved as a
Participant or Affiliate• invitation if you are interested in driller
training or technology testing opportunities at test site
ConclusionsConclusions