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invent
introduce
Research Engagement
The power of collaboration: innovating and working towards
solutions for the minerals sector together
www.crcore.org.au
Steve WaltersChiefTechnologist
CRC ORE SET UP WITH SPECIFIC MANDATE AND PURPOSE
Australian Multi-factored Productivity
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Millennium super cycle
IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH INNOVATION
DECLINING GRADE INDICATOR OF THE OVERALL CHALLENGE
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Actual and projected Cu head grade decline since 2000
DECLINING GRADE INDICATOR OF THE OVERALL CHALLENGE
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PGE head grade decline for Anglo Platinum operations over last 20 years
45% decline
GOOD NEWS - INNOVATION NOW ON INDUSTRY RADAR
Going Lean: driving operational excellence
Ensuring innovation: planning for essential change
Shift in energy demand: preparing for inevitable change
The new normal: what goes down must come up
Social licence: changing the nature of stakeholder dialogues
Investment climate change: surviving the finance drought
To buy or not to buy: that is the question
After Australian Mining Magazine: The top trends for mining in 2016
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UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO INNNOVATION
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INVENTION
Having a good idea and showing its possible
INNOVATION
Turning an idea into a solution that adds value or advantage
IMPLEMENTATION
Commercially sustaining delivery of value to a client-base
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Successful innovation requires effective partnerships
CHALLENGE OF INNOVATING MINING INNOVATION
“The suggestion is not to pursue innovation for its own sake but to look for ways that innovation can unleash the next wave of productivity and cost cutting.
Right now, the mining industry is at a tipping point as it tries to identify strategies to make innovation deliver bottom line value”
Andrew Swart, Global Mining Innovation Lead, Deloitte Canada
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strategies to make innovation deliver bottom line value”
COLLABORATION IS KEY TO SUPPORTING INNOVATION
Austmine|Australian Mining Equipment, Technology andServices (METS) National Survey | August 2015
Only ~16% of Australian METS are collaborating on R&D with Universities
Reflects long standing problem of turning invention into commercial products in Australia
Collaboration linkages and impact have to be dramatically improved
CRC ORE TASKED WITH CREATING MORE EFFECTIVE PATHWAY
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Technology Readiness Levels
DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED INNOVATION PATHWAY
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TRL’S MUST BE COMBINED WITH IMPLEMENTATION READINESS
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Technology Readiness Levels
CONSORTIUM OF CURRENT CRC ORE PARTICIPANTS
METS
Hatch
IMDEX
JKTech
METS Ignited
Orica
Sedgman
SodernOthers in negotiation
METS ASSOCIATES
MIPAC, Whittle, Split
Datamine, SRK
Comet, Scantech
Gekko, Bear Rock
RESEARCHERS
AMIRA
Mining3
Clareo
CSIRO
Curtin
Kellogg’s Institute (KIN)
MRIWA
NRC Canada
QUT
University of Adelaide
The University of Qld
UTAS
MINERS
Anglo American
Anglo Gold Ashanti
BHP Billiton
Newcrest
Glencore
Teck
Sumitomo
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ALIGNING CRC ORE TO ADDRESS INNOVATION CHALLENGE
‘GOING LARGE’ DOESN’T DELIVER PRODUCTIVITY GAINS
Increasing production with duplication (more trucks, more mills, etc.) delivered higher Capex and lower productivity
Reducing Opex has helped productivity
Now need to focus innovation on improving feed quality not just quantity
POINT SOLUTIONS DON’T DRIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
Mining is not short of potential new or better technologies in and out of sector
Challenge is to combine point solutions into integrated solution stacks
Delivering transformational change requires a clear view of system-value
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SYSTEM VIEW INVOLVES LINKING TOGETHER SILOED USE CASES
EXTENDING CURRENT CRC ORE SYSTEM-BASED OFFERINGS
CRC ORE has developed new methodologies to reverse the trend of declining feed
grades based on an integrated system-value resource definition and operational approach
Grade Engineering® Integrated Extraction Simulator (IES)
New ore amenability tests and tools
Novel co-creation engagement models
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SEEDING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS TO EXTEND OFFERINGS
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Essential Research Participants
PRINCIPLES OF SEEDING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
BASED ON ENCOURAGING AGILE STAGED INVESTMENT
Traditional R&D models not attractive to industry in current cycle – needs a new approach to Fast Value-Fast Reward strategies and staged partnerships
SPECIALIST POINT SOLUTIONS FIT WITH FOCUS ON EARLY TRL’S
Most research organisations provide distinct specialties that don’t address total system solution outcomes – this is appropriate during invention phase
CENTRE FUNDED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (CFP’s) ARE COMMISSIONED
CRC ORE is not a traditional grant allocation funding body – CFP’s are designed to fit in with its overall objectives and to have clear opportunities for delivery
SUMMARY OF CURRENT CENTRE FUNDED PROJECTS
~20 Centre Funded Projects are/will be developed as an agile portfolio approach
Aim is to seed projects to generate TRL 5 offerings suitable for next phase funding
This is done through the Implementation Council as an elective process with IDG
Key aspects of Council projects involve integration, validation and economic impact
PROJECT SNAPSHOTS ON A PAGE AVAILABLE THROUGH WEBSITE
CFP’S DESIGNED TO FEED INTO FIVE MAIN FUNCTION GROUPS
GeoSensing for coarse streams
Conditioning for coarse liberation
Mass simulation, process control
and optimisation
Innovation Delivery Hubs
and ‘Living Labs’
Large array LIBS
Large array LIFS
Magnetic Resonance
Blast hole PGNAA
Machine vision
Spatial modelling
Geological controls
Ranking indices
Defining exploitable
heterogeneity
Rock mass characterisation
Precision blasting for conditioning
Coarse liberation for Au ores
Energy efficient coarse liberation
Mass simulation using IES platform
Integrating models into IES
Advanced process analytics
Embedding GE into mine scheduling
Management Execution systems
Coarse gravity separation and IPJ
Developing Innovation Hubs
Kalgoorlie Innovation Hub
Gamma Activation
ALSO DESIGNED TO SUPPORT GRADE ENGINEERING LEVERS
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Relatively mature - main focus on collaboration with METS and site validation Delivery Themes
Less mature – main focus on Centre Funded projects with research groups to address
gaps but also understanding METS offerings
SEEING EMERGENCE OF RELATED ‘RESEARCH CLUSTERS’
GeoSensing for coarse streams
Conditioning for coarse liberation
Mass simulation, process control
and optimisation
Innovation Delivery Hubs
and ‘Living Labs’
Defining exploitable
heterogeneity
P3-005 AMIRA P420F Curtin Univ - Enhanced
breakage of Au ores
P3-008 JKMRC UQEnhanced Grade
Engineering
P1-006 CODES UTAS Predictive controls on
grade by size
P5 SITE ACTIVITIESCRC ORE’s IDG projects
Includes nine RHD students
P1-001 CSIROGamma Activation
cross belt Au analysis
P2-004 NRC CanadaLIBS Mineralogy tools
P1-005 Adelaide UnivUpconversion fluorescence
ROLE OF CRC ORE’S INNOVATION DELIVERY GROUP (IDG)
NURTURING THE PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCT TRANSITION
Key role of IDG group is to support site demonstration and validation of emerging technologies by working closely with sites and driving outcomes
ACCESSING TECHNICAL AND LOGISTICAL SPECIALISTS
IDG is an internal group of industry professionals available to support sites and research providers as a ‘translation service’ between inventors and operators
SUPPORTING INTEGRATED SITE DEPLOYMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
IDG develops clear value proposition for technology solution stacks with a stage gated path to implementation to provide support for early site adopters
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GETTING INNOVATION READY FOR IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
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Solution Stack A Solution Stack B Solution Stack C Solution Stack D
Generating initial value propositions and business cases
KEY ROLE OF END-USER IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
GUIDANCE ON VALUE PROPOSITIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Emerging prototypes must be supported by value propositions that are attractive and realistic for successful site based commercial uptake
SUPPORT FOR SITE VALIDATION AND DEPLOYMENT
Inability to gain critical proof of concept site access is a major obstacle for nurturing innovation and Council needs to provide this support
END USER FORUM FOR DIRECTING AND DRIVING INNOVATION
The Implementation Council represents METS and Miners and its prime directive is to generate elective support for trialing and validating technologies
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LINKING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
STAGE 1: Centre Funded Development Projects
STAGE 2: Industry Co-Funded Development Projects
STAGE 3: Integrated Site Implementation Projects
IMPLEMENTATION EVENTS
DELIVERYTHEMES
DEVELOPMENTPROGRAMS
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LINKING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
Schematic Centre Funded project
FITTING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INTO SOLUTION STACKS
= DELIVERY THEMES
SOLUTION STACKS
SYSTEM VALUE
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MECHANISMS FOR WORKING WITH INDUSTRY END-USERS
Integrating TRL5 ready point solutions from CRC
ORE development pipeline
Forum for evaluating emerging technologies from METS and Miners
Identification of enabling technologies from METS Miners and Researchers
Development of shared value proposition and specification
(typically brokered by IDG)
Identification of sites with high value opportunity
prepared to be early adopter
Establishment of co-investment consortia
by Implementation Council
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SOME ADVICE TO CENTRE FUNDED RESEARCH PROVIDERS
TURN CREATIVE POINT SOLUTIONS INTO VALUABLE SOLUTION STACKS
Understand that seed funding of point solutions is designed to evolve into high value/high reputation co-operative, co-funded Delivery Themes
FOCUS ON RAPID DELIVERY OF PROTOTYPES – BE AGILE AND ‘PIVOT’
Success isn’t a project reaching completion date with a final report on time its when emerging outcomes offer new opportunity and you become Agile
CONNECT WITH IDG AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WORKSHOPPING
IDG offers access to incorporating your technology into systems analysis linked to site-based activities and end-user engagement – take advantage of this
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RESEARCHERS FORUM - RESEARCH PROGRAM OVERVIEWS
Greg WilkieProgram 1: Define
Fernando VieiraProgram 2: Separate
Ben AdairProgram 4: Control
Luke KeeneyProgram 5: Operate
Nick BeatonProgram 3: Extract
invent
introduce
Research Engagement
The power of collaboration: innovating and working towards
solutions for the minerals sector together
www.crcore.org.au
Steve WaltersChiefTechnologist