This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals

30 Apr 2023 | Abstracted from IEEE Spectrum

"It's the mother of all needle-in-a-haystack problems: Find the significant minable deposits of cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel resting anywhere from 100 to 2,000 meters deep in the Earth's surface....Machine Prospector...comprises the machine-learning models...looking for spots where eons-long geologic processes would have formed nickel- and cobalt-rich magmatic sulfide deposits."

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