The HyLogger core scanner is a rapid spectroscopic logging and imaging system that uses continuous visible and infrared spectroscopy and digital imaging to examine core without destroying it in the process.
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HyLogger
HyLogging is a new, highly automated method designed by CSIRO to determine drillcore mineralogy using rapid reflectance spectroscopy.
The GSWA HyLogger, which was installed in July 2009 at the Carlisle Core Library, is one of seven machines in Australia that together make up the AuScope National Virtual Core Library (NVCL) consortium. This is a collaborative Federal and State project which aims to provide drillcore mineralogical and image data in a standard format.
The resulting data, coupled with simultaneous acquisition of high-resolution digital photographs of scanned core, can provide new insights into host rock and alteration mineralogy, vectors to mineralization, objective determination of lithostratigraphic units and their boundaries, and refined inputs to resource block modeling and geometallurgical characteristics.
