OZ Minerals and energy and resources open innovation platform, Unearthed, are launching the A$1M Explorer Challenge.
This unique, online crowdsourcing competition calls for geologists and data scientists from across the globe to develop ground-breaking approaches to discover new exploration targets at a site near OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill copper- gold mine in South Australia. With a A$1 million prize pool to be awarded to winning ideas.
The Prominent Hill mine sits within the Mount Woods exploration tenements in northern South Australia and the mine has been in operation since 2009. The site for this competition is the remaining land of the Mount Woods exploration tenements surrounding Prominent Hill.
Participating innovators will put their skills to the test and develop solutions for the duration of the 10 week online competition. Not only for a A$1 million prize pool, but also the chance to have their winning model tested in real life.
“This gives us potential access to thousands of scientists’ ideas and data, compared to our relatively small team of in-house geologists – a different and diverse perspective to interpret our exploration data,” OZ Minerals’ Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Cole, said.
The Explorer Challenge kicks off at Mineral Exploration 4.0: Harnessing Data-Driven Discovery conference in Toronto on March 4.
Interested participants can register their interest at the Explorer Challenge site. Entries close May 2019, and winners will be announced in June 2019.
Media Release: https://www.ozminerals.com/uploads/media/181207_Explorer_Challenge_Media_Release.pdf
Conference details: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mineral-exploration-40-harnessing-data-driven-discovery-registration-56463934147?utm_source=Social+media
Register for Explorer Challenge here: https://unearthed.solutions/u/competitions/explorer-challenge