Getech joins copper insight effort
Getech has joined a consortium of academia and industry aimed at speeding up understanding of copper deposits.
The Kupferschiefer project aims to revisit archive geological data and reinterpret it using petroleum and mineral system approaches, creating maps of mineral prospective areas within the Central European Basin.
Getech is using its proprietary gravity and magnetics data, as well as Globe earth model and spatial analytical expertise, to provide the consortium with clear and realistic insights into the nature and structure of the subsurface.
The project launched in the first half of 2023 and is set to run for three years. It is led by the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) and has university funding as well as industry sponsors. Other partners include the University of Warsaw and industry participants First Quantum Minerals, Teck Resources and BHP.
The consortium is taking a holistic mineral system approach to sedimentary copper discovery. This requires an understanding of the combination of geological processes that are required to form and preserve sedimentary deposits, in this case copper.
Howard Golden, senior advisor in critical minerals at Getech and technical advisor for the CET, comments, ‘Increasing quantities of copper are needed to support the world’s decarbonisation and it is more important than ever that we understand the depositional environments to help us identify new, innovative ways of finding this critical resource.’
