Price
$180
Event date and time
Thursday 13 Feb 2025
8.30am to 6.30pm AWST
Location
Fraser's State Reception Centre
60 Fraser Ave, Kings Park, Perth WA
Join us at #DIME2025 to explore CSIRO's latest innovations in mineral exploration. This annual industry showcase features our recent scientific and technological advances aimed to enhance success rates in mineral exploration, and prospective metal extraction.
Our discovery research and development program focuses on creating new, innovative, and disruptive technologies that make mineral discovery and ore deposit delineation more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable.
Besides sharing our latest research, the event offers a platform for industry professionals to share their challenges. Engaging in our topic-focused Q&As sessions and discussions can help shape the future of CSIRO research.
Please note this event is in-person only, we thank you for your understanding and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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$180
Dates and Times
Event date: Feb 2025
Thursday 13 Feb 2025
Fraser's State Reception Centre
8.30am to 6.30pm AWST
60 Fraser Ave, Kings Park, Perth WA
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The Discovery Innovation Minerals Exploration seminar (DIME) is CSIRO’s annual mineral’s industry event that highlights our recent scientific and technological advances, which are aimed at lifting success rates in mineral exploration. Growing and diversifying our resource base by creating exploration tools tailored to the Australian landscape is a national focus that will position us as a leader in emerging resource exploration technologies. Acting as a catalyst to bring together industry, government and academia, CSIRO aims to enable accessible solutions to lift success rates in minerals discovery to meet our surging resource demand for a high-tech and greener future.
DIME 2025 will feature a range of topics covering novel research, development and deployment programs led by CSIRO. For example – new 4D modelling techniques to solve for mineral endowment, geophysical modelling and ML technologies, critical and strategic minerals research, distal footprints and indicator mineral studies, data integration and fusion to solve mineral exploration challenges with the deployment of new technologies and applications. We will also provide an update on CSIRO’s eXploration Toolkit (XT) technology platform.
Your attendance at DIME will enable you to influence the future direction of this R&D at CSIRO, through interacting with CSIRO research scientists and engineers throughout the day. Space is limited, so register soon to secure your place at this event.
Agenda
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Start |
Finish |
Duration |
Title / Agenda item |
Speaker |
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Introduction |
Chair: Tobias Schlegel |
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8:30 |
8:45 |
15 |
Arrival |
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8:45 |
8:55 |
10 |
Welcome to Country |
Robyn Collard |
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8:55 |
9:10 |
15 |
How do we help the 21st Century Mineral Resources Industry find new, quality mineral deposits? |
Sandra Occhipinti |
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Session 1: Lithium - Finding it, extracting it and making Li metal |
Jens Klump |
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9:10 |
9:30 |
20 |
Lithium pegmatite exploration in NE Victoria: Vectoring prospectivity using Ta-Nb oxides |
Rosa Didonna |
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9:30 |
9:50 |
20 |
Australia-wide mineral maps – managing multi-sensor data for creating real-world geoscience products |
Jo Miles |
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9:50 |
10:10 |
20 |
LithSonicTM – A new way of making lithium metal from various feedstocks |
Dongmei (Donna) Liu |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
20 |
Leveraging supervised machine learning to enhance critical mineral discovery in the Pilbara |
Lequn Zang |
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10:30 |
11:00 |
30 |
Morning Tea |
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Session 2: Data integration across scales |
Margaux LeValliant |
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11:00 |
11:20 |
20 |
Unpacking what makes a deposit – geological process modelling for solving mineral endowment |
Thomas Poulet |
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11:20 |
11:40 |
20 |
Application of airborne electromagnetic data to assist exploration for rare earth elements in southern Australia |
Aaron Davis |
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11:40 |
12:00 |
20 |
MinEx CRC: Pulling back the cover for future-proofing exploration |
Helen McFarlane |
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12:00 |
12:20 |
20 |
Let's talk about our most important resource - Water - What are we doing to help? |
Tim Munday |
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12:20 |
13:20 |
60 |
Lunch |
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Session 3: Geochemistry and Analytics |
Helen McFarlane |
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13:20 |
13:40 |
20 |
Hydrogeochemistry – where it fits in the exploration toolkit |
Robert Thorne |
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13:40 |
14:00 |
20 |
Volatiles in high-grade magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide systems: from genesis to discovery |
Stefano Caruso |
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14:00 |
14:20 |
20 |
Alteration-derived volume changes control the location of iron oxide-Cu-Au mineralisation. |
Tobias Schlegel |
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Session 4: Technologies and Applications |
Ryan Noble |
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14:20 |
14:30 |
10 |
Exploration Toolkit: Accelerating delivery of software and data from research. |
Sam Bradley |
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14:30 |
14:40 |
10 |
Magmatic mafic-ultramafic ore systems – Recent research outputs and development of exploration tools |
Margaux Le Vaillant |
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14:40 |
14:50 |
10 |
Maia Mapper and MaiaCube – micro XRF at scale and new ways to extract insights from data |
Nick Farmer |
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14:50 |
15:00 |
10 |
Getting the most out of drill hole data: meaningful and robust boundary detection tools |
Rebecca Montsion |
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15:00 |
15:30 |
30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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Session 5: New Technologies |
Chair: Sandra Occhipinti |
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15:30 |
15:50 |
20 |
Mapping Archean gold systems using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) |
Adam Bath |
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15:50 |
16:05 |
15 |
Interface sampling and indicator minerals for exploration through cover |
Walid Salama |
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16:05 |
16:20 |
15 |
Supporting Australia's national geoscience data infrastructure through AuScope, NVCL and AVRE |
Alex Hunt |
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16:20 |
16:30 |
5 |
Closing remarks |
Sandra Occhipinti |
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16:30 |
18:30 |
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Networking & Sundowner |
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