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MR sensors to detect landmines

New Australian company MRead is developing sensors to detect explosives used in landmines to aid global humanitarian de-mining efforts

Sensing explosives

Sense of success

Our sensing and sorting technology delivering impact in the mining industry through new Australian companies

World first magnetic resonance truck analyser dispatched

NextOre has completed assembly and factory testing of a world first MR truck analyser

NextOre wins major mining technology solution award

Mining services technology company NextOre has taken out a global award for its innovative ore sorting solution that uses Magnetic Resonance to measure ore grade in real time, developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.

Chrysos Corporation

Adelaide-based disruptor Chrysos Corporation is using cutting-edge material analysis technology to step around centuries-old methods to improve returns to gold mining companies.

CSIRO scoops the pool at prestigious research commercialisation awards

PARTNER RELEASE - CSIRO has scooped the pool at the prestigious KCA Awards, for creating and commercialising a special X-ray to find gold and a varnish to preserve priceless artworks.

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NextOre giving miners superpower vision to analyse ore

How decades of CSIRO research led to the creation of a world-leading mining innovation company whose technology is making processes more precise, profitable and sustainable. By JANE NICHOLLS

Brianna Ganly - to infinity and beyond

Dr Brianna Ganly has just returned from a research placement with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Back in Australia, she has an exciting dual mission as CSIRO’s X-ray Science Team Leader in the Sensing and Sorting Research program, and working with the Autonomous Sensors Future Science Platform. By JANE NICHOLLS