We’re excited to announce that Dr. Jack Muir from Fleet Space Technologies will be our guest speaker at the upcoming EarthByte Seminar.

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about cutting-edge techniques in mineral exploration and to engage with like-minded professionals. Don’t miss out!

Dr. Jack Muir is a mathematical geophysicist who has specialised in ML driven solutions to simulation, signal processing and geophysical inversion. He obtained his MSc and PhD from the California Institute of Technology’s Seismological Laboratory. Jack is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University.

Seminar Details:

Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Time: 11 am – 12 pm AEDT
Location: Room 449 (Conference Room), Madsen (F09) – School of Geosciences
Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83136069830?from=addon

Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) as a basis for ML-driven mineral exploration’

Abstract

The transition from a carbon-driven economy to an economy driven by full electrification requires substantial additional inputs of critical minerals, in particular copper. However, currently forecast production is insufficient to meet projected demand. To meet this demand, we require a robust pipeline of future mining projects, beginning at the exploration phase. Future efforts in exploration furthermore require methodologies that can search for mineralization under substantial cover, as most accessible and economic near-surface deposits are thought to have been discovered. In this talk, I will discuss Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) as a geophysical sensing methodology that is particularly useful for mineral exploration under cover due to its ability to illuminate the full mineral system at varying scales. I will discuss Fleet’s work on integrating ANT into a robust set of ML driven exploration tools, including regional scale prospectivity, conformal grade prediction, and hypothesis falsification of geological models.