Deep Exploration Technologies (DET CRC)

The various projects that were completed during this CRC were:

• 3D seismic exploration for hard rock environments
• Drilling fluid system for mineral exploration coiled tube drilling
• Fast track of instrumented core barrel
• In front of bit imaging
• Joint inversion of 3D seismic and magnetotelluric data
• Next generation drilling systems
• Ore-body delineation (using borehole seismic techniques for hard rock exploration)
• Seismic imaging in hard rock environments
• Seismic while-drilling (SWD) imaging using seismic interferometry
• Sensors for rapid down-hole rock characterisation
• Targeting of mineral resources from seismic data

Researchers: Prof. Andrej Bona, Dr. Andrew Greenwood, Prof. Brett Harris, Dr, Mahyar Madadi, Dr. Liliya Malovichko, Prof. Roman Pevzner, Dr. Andrew Pethick, Prof. Milovan Urosevic, Mr. Sasha Ziramov.