invent

introduce

Research Engagement

The power of collaboration: innovating and working towards

solutions for the minerals sector together

S.Walters@crcore.org.au

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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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

S.Walters@crcore.org.au

www.crcore.org.au

Steve WaltersChiefTechnologist