AuScope National Virtual Core Library
Example of HyLogging™ device
The AuScope National Virtual Core Library (NVCL) is a collaborative federal and state government program aimed at using CSIRO HyLogger™ spectroscopic drill core scanning technology to generate digital information on rock, ore and alteration minerals in drill core. It results from a successful application for $43 million of Commonwealth funds by the AuScope consortium under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). AuScope has been established to develop a national geoscience and geospatial research and applied science infrastructure system, with co-investment by state government agencies and research institutions. Part of this infrastructure will be contributed by the NVCL project, planned to facilitate research into Australian mineral systems through the increased knowledge gained by extensive hyperspectral logging and imaging of stored drill core.
Mineral explorers and researchers will be able to access a virtual view of cores and their related spectral data over the internet before visiting the core facilities. Initially, core from representative NSW mineral systems will be scanned.
$2.6 million of the NCRIS funding, plus co-investment from each State and Territory, will be directed towards the construction of Hylogger systems by CSIRO and their operation in each jurisdiction. Scanning of core at the Londonderry Centre is scheduled to commence in January 2009. It is expected that the scanning will also be used in the E C Andrews Drill Core Facility at Broken Hill at subsequent times.
HyLogger™ is a trademark of CSIRO, Australia.
For further information, please contact the Geologcal Survey of NSW.