The Challenge Modern mineral exploration – particularly beneath cover – is dominated by the use of invasive drilling to access and sample below the surface. By improving technologies for the…
The Challenge Drilling can provide physical samples of rock hidden deep beneath the surface, but with conventional ‘blind’ drilling it can take many holes for an explorer to develop enough…
The Challenge Modern mineral exploration relies on drilling to provide physical samples to test mineralisation potential beneath the surface. Operating current drilling technology in remote landscapes is expensive and resource…
Sampling from sites across WA provides new insight into the post-mining evolution of pit lake waters
The Challenge Geophysical surveying is a mineral exploration key tool, but its capacity to define areas which may contain undiscovered resources requires understanding of how the properties of local rocks…
The Challenge Western Australia is rich in Rare Earth mineral resources, but the standard processes used to liberate these valuable and industrially important metals from ore minerals have high demands…
The Challenge Cracks represent unstable weaknesses in a rock mass, developing and growing in response to repeated explosions and impacts and ongoing vibration experienced during mining. This dynamic change in…
The Challenge Deep-seated magmas are key to the development of nickel sulfide and other valuable ore minerals in the Yilgarn. New approaches to analysing the chemistry of these ancient magmatic…
The Challenge Mine closure requires assessment and management of the pit lakes that can form in open pit mines after mining ceases. Understanding of the long-term environmental risk posed by…
