Gold prospecting just got easier
FINDING valuable gold and mineral deposits can costs millions of dollars, but UniSA’s Future Industries Institute senior research fellow Dr Caroline Tiddy has come up with a cost-saving solution. Dr Tiddy has developed a suite of geochemical tools to more accurately target valuable mineral deposits and save drilling companies money in the process. The tools use data collected from analysing drilling materials to help locate undiscovered precious metals buried by younger sediment and identify the right drill holes. “The global demand for copper and gold is growing, but it is getting increasingly hard to find these metals as companies are forced to drill deeper and deeper, costing them significant amounts of money,” Dr Tiddy said. Diamond drilling can cost to…