Top miners, academics partner to seek new ways to discover sedimentary copper

By Mining.com

Getech, a locator of subsurface resources, announced it has joined a consortium of academia and industry to speed up the understanding of copper deposits required for the discovery critical metal needed for renewable technologies.

The three-year Kupferschiefer project, which launched in the first half of 2023, 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.  

The project, led by the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET), has partnered with the University of Warsaw and First Quantum Minerals, Teck Resources and BHP.