copper: australia's role in global...

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

t +61 3 9545 8764e jonathan.law@csiro.auw www.csiro.au

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