The main aim of the Total Deposit Knowledge program is to maximise the impact of geological information and understanding on the mining value chain, by developing tools and approaches to extend the ability of geological datasets to predict and model key mining and processing parameters, and to increase the effectiveness of in-mine and district exploration.
Context
- Maximise value of geological information at every stage in the extractive process.
- Reduction of risk and cost.
- Faster and more rigorous geological models which are designed to address exploration, mining and processing needs.
- Effective characterisation of rock mass for mining.
- Cost-effective deposit-scale mapping and exploration.
- Better and more responsive tools and approaches for 3D modelling of mineralised environments at deposit to regional scale, aiding brownfield and greenfields exploration.
- New and cheaper ways to extract ore, including in situ recovery.
Projects within this program
- NW Mineral Province New Discovery Program
- GSQ-UQ Exploration Webinar Series
- Funding received for project to facilitate the scoping of the 4-year NW Queensland prospectivity program
- BRC project to compile and contextualise previous research and relevant exploration data for NW Queensland mineral province program
- Automated logging using high resolution drillcore XRF Data
- Microbial recovery of metal
- Projects related to tectonostratigraphic analysis
- Case studies of geometallurgical tools
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Program Team