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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 project, led by the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Exploration Targeting , has partnered with the University of Warsaw and First Quantum Minerals, Teck Resources and BHP. 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, it said.
With the looming world-wide copper deficit, sedimentary hosted copper deposits offer a promising and more sustainable alternative for meeting the increasing global demand for this energy transition critical mineral.