International Mining and Resources Conference
Alan Duffy
An unusual opportunity came up to speak at the International Mining and Resources Conference housed at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre to explore the possibilities of spin off tech from our underground dark matter searches. I focussed on the science of SABRE, the possibilities of an X-ray like scan for gold in the mine around using Muon Tomography and other underground science such as understanding how life grows without radiation / astrobiology. Finally I discussed the possible future for mining, in space! Key technologies such as automation and refinement have been deployed by the giants in the resource extraction sector and could find a home for their advanced technologies in the final frontier.
Explaining how dark matter is needed to form structures we see around us, such as galaxies like our own Milky Way.
Space and the search for dark matter has surprising overlap with the resource and mining giants at IMARC, in particular muon tomography and asteroid mining.