At PDAC 2018, Sweden’s Minalyze AB will release the world’s first cloud-based solution for 3D core viewing in collaboration with the Geological Survey of South Australia. No further details are available until the convention in Toronto from March 4-7 but this innovation will build on the company’s success with the Minalyzer CS, (Core Scanner), a compact, self-contained XRF drill core scanner. Its key features are the capability to assay drill cores directly in trays and its ease of mobility.

It provides rapid and non-destructive analysis of drill core in trays and other geological samples such as chips, pulps and pressed pellets using an X–ray fluorescence (XRF) scanner which gives multi-elemental chemical information on the sample.

Minalyzer instruments are already in place at the core reference library in Adelaide; Glencor’s George Fisher Zn/Pb/Ag mine in Mount Isa; CSIRO’s research centre in Perth (the Australian Resource Research Centre – ARRC); and the Minalyzer core competence centre in Perth. In August last year, Minalyze announced that the technology will be available to the resources sector exclusively from CSIRO, which was the first research organisation in the world with access to a Minalyzer CS in-house.

CSIRO Research Director, Dr Rob Hough said at the time that this collaboration will form part of a broader platform for drill core characterisation services available at CSIRO’s ARRC laboratories. “We are consolidating our expertise in mineral analysis by developing a Drill Core Laboratory at the ARRC which brings together technology developed for the METS sector, including geotechnical and hyperspectral core loggers, as well as the CSIRO-developed Maia Mapper system. The Minalyzer Core Scanner with its XRF capability will be a great addition to this suite of core scanning instrumentation.”