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Adele SeymonAMIRA International
Pathways to a sustainable future through Collaborative Research:
the WAXI model
An integrated program of research and data gathering into its "anatomy“
To augment the capacity of local institutions
AMIRA InternationalP934A West African eXploration Initiative Stage 2 (WAXI)
Key features of WAXI:
• Public-Private Partnership co-funded by industry and governments, coordinated by AMIRA International
• Integrated programs of:ResearchData Integration and ManagementCapacity Building via courses and scholarships
• Provides a powerful networking forum that includesmajor stakeholders in West Africa:
Industry Geological Surveys and Ministries of MinesUniversities Aid agencies (AusAID)
WAXI – An example of successful collaboration
• Project Leader: Mark Jessell, CET-UWA• A network of 50 African & International Organisations• Coordinated by AMIRA International• Focus: Tectonics & Mineral Resources of West Africa• Stage 1: 2006-2007• Stage 2: 2010-2013• Stage 3: 2014-2018• Funding >US$6M prior to Stage 3• Bilingual English-French
consortium• http://waxi2.org
WAXI – An example of successful collaboration
Project outcomes:• New data
• At a range of scales (from Craton to deposit)• Synthesis
• Harmonised maps• GIS dataset (with layers unique to the WAXI project)
• 6 WAXI funded and 30 additional Masters, PhD and Postdoctoral projects, half of them African
MScPhDPDF
WAXI – An example of successful collaboration
WAXI 2 training
• Annual commitment to 5 WAXI courses
• 20 total days of training• 100 total participants
Data Metallogenica www.dmgeode.com
Purpose of DM:• Repository of data (global coverage for all deposit types
(currently >5,000 deposits)• High quality technical data resource
• Reference (information resource)• Teaching and training
AMIRA International: Enabling collaboration
Who we are: AMIRA International is an independent global member-based organisation of mining and supplier companies
What do we do: Develop, broker, facilitate and manage collaborative research projects
Countries with Research ProvidersCountries with Sponsors/MembersAMIRA Offices
AMIRA International: A global network
AMIRA International: Our members
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Explorers
METS
AMIRA International: Our business model
AMIRA
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Competitors
AMIRA
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Sponsor 2 Non-competitor
1. Consortia of peers prepared to collaborate on a problem –finding and engaging the right people to deliver the solution
2. Identify and engage researchers/technology providers to solve a problem specific to a member
3. Technology scouting: identify existing solutions to challenges that members may have
AMIRA: Projects developed across the value chain with an increased emphasis on integration
Large scale R&D projects,
2 - 4 year duration and $0.3m - $1m
annual budgets
Exploration Geoscience Mining
Mineral Processing and Metallurgy
Multi-Disciplinary
• Discovery technologies• Ore genesis• Vectors to ore• Regional studies• Data compilations• Data Metallogenica
• Comminution energy use
• Flotation recovery• Extraction selectivity• Reagent and water
recovery
• OH&S• Environment
• Productivity• Mine safety• Reduced
Operating costs• Improved mine
design
• Increased revenue from improved product quality and improved product recovery
• Integration of mining and subsequent processing• Optimisation of resource characterisation for optimal
production and recovery
Sustainability
• Energy • Water management
AMIRA’s collaborative record for the exploration industryRegional Framework Studies West Africa eXploration Initiative (P934, P934A,
P934B)
South China Craton (P950)
Yilgarn (P437, P482, P624, P763, P710)
Technology / Technique Development Geophysics (P223, P407, P1022, P1036, P1058)
Geochemistry (P778, P778A, P710A, P972)
Geometallurgy (P843, P843A)
Data Compilations & Roadmaps Data Metallogenica (P1040)
Australian Geoscience Thesis Database (P874)
Copper Technology Roadmap (P813)
Drilling Technology Roadmap (P903) -> DET CRC
Uncover Roadmap (P1162) -> Stage 2
Ore Deposit Model Studies Epithermal & Porphyry Deposits (P765A, P1060, P1153)
Sediment-hosted Copper Deposits (P872)
Stress Transfer Modelling of Gold Deposits (P718A)
Nickel Deposits (P710A, P962)
Sediment-hosted Gold Deposits (P923)
Diamond Indicator Minerals (P891)
AMIRA’s collaborative record for Exploration
Smarter exploration through:
Better insights
Better technologies
More effective practices
Developed and managed 202 collaborative projects over the last 55 years$170 million (in 2014 A$) has been invested by industry
Why collaborate?
Major technical obstacles are overcome
Technology approaches the physical limit
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Technology B
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Technology development:
Going it alone to gain a competitive advantage – does it
really last?
Is the ground and quality of the
resource one holds the key?
Overcoming perceived threats of collaboration
• Threat to competitive advantage• Competitors get a “leg up”• Administration / organisation hard to manage
Advantage can come from how knowledge and technology are applied• More rapidly• More effectively• More broadly in the operations, and• To develop and motivate staff
Why collaborate through AMIRA projects?
• Reduces R&D costs – leveraging government funding where possible
• Spreads risk via multiple project involvement
• Access world-class research competency
• Utilise ‘outside’ expertise
• Networking opportunity
• Focus maintained through regular meetings
• Confidential outcomes and free life-time access to IP developed
• Case studies
• Research capacity and infrastructure nurtured
The case for Industry – University collaboration:Everyone benefits: The Mining Company• Access to broader research resources & infrastructure• Access to subject experts, ‘cutting edge’ research• Risk sharing whilst enjoying significant leverage• Ability to focus academic research on practical problems • Capitalise on synergies between peers • Can forge better links with academia• Being seen as good corporate citizen: support local institutions to build capacity• Access to industry-ready students • Access to a ready forum for networking and information exchange• Easier access to government funds• Opportunity for people development and knowledge transfer
The case for Industry – University collaboration:Everyone benefits: Research Organisations• Ability to forge deeper strategic links with industry• Access to – research funding to build larger scale projects
– real-world problems– knowledge and data from many different sites– broader technical knowhow /expertise– commercial knowhow– real world training for students
• Job offers for students
The case for Industry – University collaboration:Everyone benefits: The Nation• Alignment of industry and researcher interests• Efficient use of R&D resources & infrastructure• Leveraging scarce government research funds• Nurture/maintain/grow research capacity• Increased probability of commercialisation of R&D outputs• Reducing duplication• Fostering innovation by encouraging institutions to be
incubators of innovation• Enhancing (two-way) Knowledge & Technology Transfer• Enhancing the knowledge economy and connectedness
Spin off from collaborative activities
• Promote and facilitate private-public-partnerships
• Focus academic research on practical problems and issues
• Help to strengthen the academic and research communities
• Help train and develop the next generation of engineers and scientists
• Foster networking and communication
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100150200250300350
Uni. Projects No. of Students
Mining Metallurgy other
430 post graduate students trainedby AMIRA (1990- 2004)
• Able to address industry topics that are pre-competitive but have broader economic and social consequences; e.g. health & safety, capacity building
• To enable large scale research problems to be tackled
WAXI 3
Sponsors in kind (Geological Surveys)
Industry Sponsors
Research and Capacity Building
Partners
Project Broker & Coordinator
Funds, Logistical Support, Access to deposits (& Data)
Ideas, Data, Training
Country Data and Logistical Support
Training and new
data
Value proposition for each organisation
AMIRA’s Central East Africa Exploration Initiative (EAXI…)
• Project Leaders: Dr Joas M KABETE, Prof. Kim HEIN, Uni of Witsand Prof. Mark Jessell, CET-UWA
• Stage 1: 12 month pilot program• Focus: gold and base metals mineral systems of Central-East Africa
Liberia Mali
Senegal TogoGhana
Niger Burkina FasoGuinea
Sierra Leone
11 Sponsors in kind (Geological Surveys)
36 Sponsors
22 Research and Capacity Building
Partners
Project Broker & Coordinator
Mauritania
Côte d’Ivoire
THE MODEL FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA-
GOVERNMENT COLLABORATION
FOR PRECOMPETITIVE GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
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