Rio Tinto Offers Laser Mineral Analysis Technology to Junior Miners

Mining Australia reported that Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO,ASX:RIO,LSE:RIO) has offered its laser mineral analysis technology developed by geoscientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ore Deposit Science (CODES) to junior explorers for free.
As quoted in the market news:

The technology, developed by a team of geoscientists led by Professors David Cooke and Bruce Gemmell at the University of Tasmania, was supported by AMIRA International research projects. Rio Tinto was one of the companies that helped finance the research.
Rio adapted the technology for their Bundoora Research laboratories in Melbourne, and have been testing it on their own mineral projects for the last two years.
The technology uses the changes in the concentration of trace elements in minerals to define the location of buried ore deposits. The technique has been tested by the CODES research team on many major deposits world-wide and shown to have a very high success rate for discovery.

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