https://unearthed.solutions/u/competitions/explorer-challenge

A $1million prize pool to find Australia’s next big mineral deposit

Join a global challenge to test the limits of data science and geology and develop new ideas about mineral exploration.
OZ Minerals, a modern mining company, is opening up more than 2TB of their own private data from their exploration project, Mount Woods. Can you use this data to predict the next mineral deposit in South Australia?
The winning models will be tested in real life – the top predictions will be drilled in 2019….

The challenge is to predict mineralisation locations in the Mount Woods project area – using any approach.Predicted mineralisations may be of any element – though the region is known for its copper (Cu) and gold (Au) deposits. Participants are welcome to process, analyse, model, or otherwise work with the data in any way they wish – provided that the competition terms and conditions are not breached. We encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams, and application of knowledge and techniques from a variety of domains where appropriate.

You will have access to the project datasets from OZ Minerals’ Mount Woods tenement. This data will be made available to you once you have accepted the terms and conditions – those rules around things like sharing of data and intellectual property. We try to keep the terms and conditions (also found here) easy to get through and understand, but let us know if you have any questions.

We have built a data portal, which sits on our website and references all the files we have in the S3 bucket.

We’ve attempted to make sense of it so that you can get going quickly. The list below goes through the top key datasets you need to get started and is not an exhaustive list of all the available searchable data.

If you’re looking for a quick-start, we recommend starting with the drillhole database, geological background and maps, then moving on to the regional geophysics.

Sounds like they are trying to find a cheap way of getting a comprehensive geo survey done on their tenement to identify areas of any valuable commodity they can mine.

party_pants said:

Sounds like they are trying to find a cheap way of getting a comprehensive geo survey done on their tenement to identify areas of any valuable commodity they can mine.

Nods.

Michael V said:

party_pants said:

Sounds like they are trying to find a cheap way of getting a comprehensive geo survey done on their tenement to identify areas of any valuable commodity they can mine.

Nods.

> If you’re looking for a quick-start, we recommend starting with the drillhole database, geological background and maps, then moving on to the regional geophysics.

Count me in. I love data analysis challenges like this. It’s possible to learn a heck of a lot this way. Remember i analysed satellite data of antarctic altitudes, and Kepler telescope’s light curves, as well as buffy’s data, and bdm data for jamaica. It’s a heck of a lot more fun than zooniverse, lets a person use their brain rather than reducing everything to the level that would insult the intelligence of a twelve year old.

Key Dates
21 February – sign up and forum opens
28 February – data released and competition launch
Late May – competition closes
June – winners announced
Second half 2019 – top targets drill-tested.

Too bloody late. I wonder if they’ve blocked access to the data yet.

mollwollfumble said:

Key Dates
21 February – sign up and forum opens
28 February – data released and competition launch
Late May – competition closes
June – winners announced
Second half 2019 – top targets drill-tested.

Too bloody late. I wonder if they’ve blocked access to the data yet.

Oh, this is ridiculous. There are something like 200 “upcoming challenges” listed, and all of them, so far as i’ve looked, have already finished.

mollwollfumble said:

Too bloody late. I wonder if they’ve blocked access to the data yet.

Sorry moll, didn’t notice it was out of date, just spotted it as a new post on the hotcopper forum and assumed it was still open to applications.

esselte said:

mollwollfumble said:

Too bloody late. I wonder if they’ve blocked access to the data yet.

Sorry moll, didn’t notice it was out of date, just spotted it as a new post on the hotcopper forum and assumed it was still open to applications.

No need to apologise mate. I didn’t know that data like was publically available at all.