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ICT in Minerals and Energy
Opportunities for South Australia
Jonathan Law | Director, Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship
16 October 2013
MINERALS DOWN UNDER NATIONAL RESEARCH FLAGSHIP
CSIRO – researching national challenges in
partnership with industry and Governments
BIOSECURITY
FOOD FUTURES
SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE
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CLIMATE ADAPTATION
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH
DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY
AND SERVICES
ENERGY TRANSFORMED
MINERALS DOWN
UNDER
FUTURE
MANUFACTURING
WATER FOR A
HEALTHY COUNTRY
WEALTH FROM OCEANS
Project Objective
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Develop high-level, normative scenarios that
demonstrate the future role of ICT in addressing
key business drivers in minerals and energy.
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Identify specific opportunities to develop South
Australia as a minerals and energy resource
services centre of Australia
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Project Approach
Global
Megatrends
SCENARIOS FOR
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Business
Drivers
Exploration
Approvals
Design
Construction
Operations
Rehabilitation
South Australia
Capabilities
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Technology
Solutions
Global megatrends: shaping the future of resources
The Innovation
Imperative
Productivity declines, high costs, and
lower commodities prices mean that
resources firms will need to innovate
to remain competitive
From FIFO to LILO
E=MC2
Mass-energy equivalence turned
physics on its head. Swapping
matter for energy via recycling could
similarly revolutionize business
models.
Changing labour markets, lifestyle
patterns and skills requirements
drive the resources sector shift from
fly-in fly-out to log-in log-out
Tell Me More
The Knowledge
Economy
How and why an economy captures
growth in knowledge services
Rising demand for transparent,
credible, and comprehensive
sustainability performance
information
Plugged In and
Switched On
Increasing connectivity between
people and devices in the online
world is creating new functionality
and opportunities
ICT in Minerals 2025
Global Megatrends
Economic, environmental,
social and technological trends
with major global impact over
the next 20 years.
South Australia
as a knowledge
economy
Learning from Bothnia Despite being small countries
with limited mineral
resources, Sweden and
Finland have developed some
of the world’s leading METS
vendors: Outotec, Metso,
Sandvik, Atlas Copco.
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The Innovation
Imperative
E=MC2
From FIFO
to LILO
The Knowledge
Economy
Tell Me More
Plugged In and
Switched On
What Makes an Option Attractive?
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Attracts investment or opens up resources in South Australia
Creates opportunity for ICT services companies in South Australia
South Australia has existing capabilities that can be leveraged
Opportunity is amenable to a shared or precompetitive solution
Cross-cutting across the value chain:
Minerals
Exploration
Approvals
Design
Construction
Operations
Rehabilitation
Energy
Exploration
Approvals
Design
Well Site
Establishment
Operations
Well
Closure
DATA
PEOPLE
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Scenarios: ICT in Minerals
Advanced Resource
Analysis
Interoperability for
Innovation
Remote Operations
Hub
Intelligent Processing
Human / Machine
Interaction
Crowdsourcing
Regulation
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Scenarios: ICT in Energy
Advanced Reservoir
Simulation
Monitoring
and Control
Smart Information
Platforms
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Production
Optimisation
Environmental
Monitoring
Many mining operations are wasteful because
they target the lowest common denominator
…..
We are poised for a revolution: measure
variability at all scales and respond in real time
to fundamentally change mining
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An integrated example: A future based on
Advanced Resource Modelling…
• Cloud-based service for integrating, analysing, modelling,
and visualising a wide range of physical, chemical, geoscientific, environmental, and social data
• Cheap new sensors informing the process
• Improved data capture from lightweight, portable drilling
sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and airborne sensors
• Link to the transparent provision of environmental
information to streamline approvals
• 3D geological interpretations of large volumes of the
Gawler province are linked to broad 3D hyperspectral
coverage to guide exploration
• Advanced petrography using macro and micro-scale 3D
CT images
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…and data cutting across the value chain – for both
minerals and energy resources…
• Interoperability is seen as a route to greater
productivity in a digital age
• Remote operations centres in South Australia capable
of controlling global energy resource operations, efields and mine sites
• Control systems that integrate seamlessly with the
resource model, drilling platform and/or mine model
for near real-time optimisation of extraction,
excavation and processing
• Human, machine, and environment data is tracked
and can be analysed to look for optimisation points
and improve safety procedures
• Wide range of data analytics, visualisation, and
reporting tools that operate against this data
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Intelligent Processing fully integrates with (and
updates) the mine model
• Processing control systems integrate seamlessly with the
mine model for near real-time optimisation of both
excavation and processing at an increasingly granular level
• Ore content is analysed in real time and ore grade data is
fed back into the mine model
• Processing can also be optimised based on external
conditions such as commodity spot prices, current
transportation and shipping costs, etc.
• In-situ mining brings us closer to the concept of the
“invisible mine” and allows access to deeper resources
without the environmental damage associated with open
cut mines
• Dry processing techniques open up new opportunities
(previously unfeasible due to lack of access to affordable
process water).
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… and linked to environmental monitoring and control – for
both minerals and energy resources…
• Advanced sensors monitor terrestrial, marine and
atmospheric conditions
• Wide range of data analytics, visualisation, and
reporting tools that operate against this data
• “Crowdsourced regulation” gives the public access to
many data sources and encourages them to develop
tools to analyse and visualise the data
• Similar to the data.gov project sponsored by the US
Federal government which made a wide range of
datasets (including environmental data) available to
the public and resulted in new tools and visualisations
• Many of the environmental conditions being
monitored have the potential to impact local
communities (e.g., water tables) – access to the data
gives the public greater confidence
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Moving forward – key considerations
• New Centre of Excellence for Minerals and Energy
• Research agenda developed collaboratively based on a vision
of South Australia as a supplier of ICT solutions to global
energy and mineral businesses:
– Establishing resource sensing and informatics as a spine through the
complete value chain
– Link between industry, innovation and METS to build integrated
solution
– Link between industry, training and education institutions to create a
talent pipeline for the future
• Create opportunities for South Australian SMEs and ICT
services companies
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Thank you
Mineral Down Under National Research Flagship
Jonathan Law
Director
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