Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
Authors: Holly Bridgwater*, Jess Robertson, Ian Anderson
Date Published: September 2019
Number of Pages: 4
Abstract:
We report on the results and lessons learned from Australia’s largest minerals exploration crowdsourcing challenge - the OZ Minerals Explorer Challenge. We discuss some of the challenges in running an international competition with a large amount of technical data at scale, and the methods used to engage innovators from outside the traditional geoscience community. We discuss specific examples of innovative approaches which have been submitted. We also examine the ways in which open innovation and crowdsourcing can provide a novel approach to rapidly evaluating tenement prospectivity and to unlock value from companies’ data assets.