Papers & Publications

  • Subsurface intelligence empowers mineral exploration companies to drill less and discover more

    At a time when a looming multi-trillion-dollar supply gap in critical metals is putting the mining industry in the spotlight, there is an immense pressure on mining companies to deliver outputs quickly with less cost, risk, and environmental impact than ever before.

  • Canadian mining tech gets critical minerals to market faster

    Muon tomography is addressing key knowledge gaps on mine sites — delivering certainty of understanding in an environment that has traditionally been very uncertain.

  • Unprecedented visibility for caving operations

    The Ideon REVEAL for Caving solution allows mining companies to remotely and fully monitor progression of cave propagation for the first time — supporting operational performance and safety.

  • Muon Tomography Applied to Nickel Massive Sulphide Deposits

    Muon tomography was used to successfully image massive sulphide deposits over a 3 km strike at BHP’s Leinster Operations in Western Australia.

  • Muography: Exploring Earth’s Subsurface with Elementary Particles

    Written by Ideonians, this chapter presents an overview of the relevant physics underlying muon geotomography, and case studies in mineral exploration within North America and Australia.

  • On the detectability of density change in steam-assisted gravity drainage reservoirs using muon tomography

    Showcasing how muon tomography is applicable to monitor SAGD reservoirs across realistic reservoir depth ranges of several hundred meters.

  • Muon Geotomography: Selected Case Studies

    Addressing how muon attenuation in matter can be used to infer the average material density along the path length of muons underground.

  • Muon Tomography Applied to a Dense Uranium Deposit at the McArthur River Mine

    Reporting on the application of muon tomography for imaging dense uranium deposits within the Athabasca Basin, including a qualitative assessment of the radiographic imaging and 3D density inversion using muon tomography.

  • Muon Geotomography: A Novel, Field-Proven 3D Density Imaging Technique for Mineral Exploration and Resource Monitoring

    A review of muon geotomography as a novel density measurement technique based on the absorption of cosmic ray muons in the ground.