Sonic Drilling coupled with Automated Mineralogy and chemistry On-Line-On-Mine-Real-Time

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Security system

Demonstration of the system to detect any instrument break-down.

SOLSA Prototype assembling including Robotics and Imagery

Implementation and demonstration of the SOLSA assembling Prototype including Imagery and Robotics module consisting in a conveyer and automated robot to position the sensor

SOLSA Prototype including Mobility

Implementation and demonstration of the SOLSA Mobility module consisting in a pickup van containing the SOLSA ID instrumentation and software.

Documents, reports (7)

Conferences and papers

Reporting of all conferences, abstracts, posters, presentations performed during the consortium by the different partners

SOLSA Workshop

Workshop guidelines, manual and presentations of the SOLSA Expert system

Publications

Reporting of all scientific publications written during the project by the different partners

Customers approach

Reporting of the customers approach for demonstration, dissemination and marketing of the SOLSA expert system

Market strategy

Market identification

End-User manual

End-user and training manual adapted to technical operator

SOLSA Training

Training manual and demonstration to mining technician and engineers.

Other (2)

Software procedure

Software and procedure with End-User manual

Database Mineral Library

Implementation of the database mineral library for Data Mining

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

SOLSA Website

Implementation of a website with database access (with confidential and public data) and end-users manuals.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Mineralogical investigations using XRD, XRF, and Raman spectroscopy in a combined approach

Author(s): Maria Secchi, Marco Zanatta, Evgeny Borovin, Mauro Bortolotti, Arun Kumar, Marco Giarola, Andrea Sanson, Beate Orberger, Nicola Daldosso, Stefano Gialanella, Gino Mariotto, Maurizio Montagna, Luca Lutterotti
Published in: Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 49/6, 2018, Page(s) 1023-1030, ISSN 0377-0486
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5386

Combined XRF, XRD, SEM-EDS, and Raman Analyses on Serpentinized Harzburgite (Nickel Laterite Mine, New Caledonia): Implications for Exploration and Geometallurgy

Author(s): Yassine El Mendili, Daniel Chateigner, Beate Orberger, Stéphanie Gascoin, Jean-François Bardeau, Sébastien Petit, Cédric Duée, Monique Le Guen, Henry Pilliere
Published in: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3/10, 2019, Page(s) 2237-2249, ISSN 2472-3452
Publisher: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00014

Insight into the structural, elastic and electronic properties of a new orthorhombic 6O-SiC polytype

Author(s): Yassine El Mendili, Beate Orberger, Daniel Chateigner, Jean-François Bardeau, Stéphanie Gascoin, Sébastien Petit, Olivier Perez, Fouzia Khadraoui
Published in: Scientific Reports, 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64415-4

Nickel laterites as sources of nickel, cobalt and scandium: Increasing resource efficiency through new geochemical and biological insights

Author(s): Beate Orberger, Antony van der Ent
Published in: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 204, 2019, Page(s) 297-299, ISSN 0375-6742
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.06.004

Carbon nanotubes synthesis using siliceous breccia as a catalyst source

Author(s): Arun Kumar, Yulia Kostikov, Marco Zanatta, Gian Domenico Sorarù, Beate Orberger, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, Gino Mariotto
Published in: Diamond and Related Materials, 97, 2019, Page(s) 107433, ISSN 0925-9635
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2019.05.018

Full-profile search–match by the Rietveld method

Author(s): Luca Lutterotti, Henry Pillière, Christophe Fontugne, Philippe Boullay, Daniel Chateigner
Published in: Journal of Applied Crystallography, 52/3, 2019, Page(s) 587-598, ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher: Journal of Applied Crystallography
DOI: 10.1107/s160057671900342x

Impact of heterogeneities and surface roughness on pXRF, pIR, XRD and Raman analyses: Challenges for on-line, real-time combined mineralogical and chemical analyses on drill cores and implication for “high speed” Ni-laterite exploration

Author(s): Cédric Duée, Beate Orberger, Nicolas Maubec, Valérie Laperche, Laure Capar, Anne Bourguignon, Xavier Bourrat, Yassine El Mendili, Daniel Chateigner, Stéphanie Gascoin, Monique Le Guen, Céline Rodriguez, Fabien Trotet, Mohamed Kadar, Karen Devaux, Michaël Ollier, Henry Pillière, Thomas Lefèvre, Dominique Harang, Fons Eijkelkamp, Harm Nolte, Peter Koert
Published in: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 198, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0375-6742
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.12.010

Natural Laterite as a Catalyst Source for the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanospheres

Author(s): Arun Kumar, Yulia Kostikov, Beate Orberger, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, and Gino Mariotto
Published in: ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 1,11, 2018, Page(s) 6046-6054, ISSN 2574-0970
Publisher: ACP Applied Nano Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01117

Raman Open Database: first interconnected Raman–X-ray diffraction open-access resource for material identification

Author(s): Yassine El Mendili, Antanas Vaitkus, Andrius Merkys, Saulius Gražulis, Daniel Chateigner, Fabrice Mathevet, Stéphanie Gascoin, Sebastien Petit, Jean-François Bardeau, Marco Zanatta, Maria Secchi, Gino Mariotto, Arun Kumar, Michele Cassetta, Luca Lutterotti, Evgeny Borovin, Beate Orberger, Patrick Simon, Bernard Hehlen, Monique Le Guen
Published in: Journal of Applied Crystallography, 52/3, 2019, Page(s) 618-625, ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576719004229

Validation and extraction of molecular-geometry information from small-molecule databases

Author(s): Fei Long,a Robert A. Nicholls,a Paul Emsley,a Saulius Gražulis,b Andrius Merkys,b Antanas Vaitkusb and Garib N. Murshudova*
Published in: Acta Crystallographica section D, 73 February 2017, 2017, Page(s) 103-111, ISSN 2059-7983
Publisher: IUCr

Discriminating ore and waste in a porphyry copper deposit using short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral imagery

Author(s): M. Dalm, M.W.N. Buxton, F.J.A. van Ruitenbeek
Published in: Minerals Engineering, 105, May 2017, 2017, Page(s) 1-78, ISSN 0892-6875
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Thermal Annealing and Phase Transformation of Serpentine-Like Garnierite

Author(s): Arun Kumar, Michele Cassetta, Marco Giarola, Marco Zanatta, Monique Le Guen, Gian Domenico Soraru, Gino Mariotto
Published in: Minerals, 11/2, 2021, Page(s) 188, ISSN 2075-163X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/min11020188

Combined XRD-XRF cluster analysis for automatic chemical and crystallographic surface mappings

Author(s): M. Bortolotti, L. Lutterotti, E. Borovin, D. Martorelli
Published in: Powder Diffraction, 34/S1, 2019, Page(s) S36-S41, ISSN 0885-7156
Publisher: International Centre For Diffraction Data
DOI: 10.1017/s0885715619000216

Conference proceedings (1)

Coupled Mineralogy and Chemistry on drill core samples: benchmarking on-line-real-time analyses

Author(s): Beate, Orberger; Cedric, Duée; Nicoalas, Maubec; Valérie, Laperche; Laure, Capar; Anne, Bouruignon; Xavier, Bourrat; Yassine El Mendili,; Stephanie, Gascoin; Daniel, Chateigner; Celine, Rodriguez; Anne, Salaün; Monique Le Guen,; Gino, Mariotto; Marco, Giarola; Arun, Kumar; Nicola, Daldasso; Marco, Zanatta; Lutterotti, Luca; Borovin, Evgeny; Bortolotti, Mauro; Secchi, Maria; Montagna, Maurizio;
Published in: Scientifc reasearch Abstract vol. 6, 2, 2017, Page(s) 70-71, ISSN 2464-9147
Publisher: Scientifc research abstract

Other (1)

Determination of spectra characteristics of laterite drill-core for “on line-on site” real-time automated mineralogy detection

Author(s): Anne Salaün; Valérie Laperche; Cédric Duée; Laure Capar; Beate Orberger; Céline Rodriguez; Nicolas Maubec; Anne Bourguignon; Sebastien Montech; Stephane Chevrel; Xavier Bourrat
Published in: https://hal-brgm.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01524717, 6, 2017
Publisher: BRGM
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.33924.83842