Product catalogue
Bluecap
Bluecap is an open-source python software library developed through a collaboration between Monash University and Geoscience Australia. The software enables geospatial economic simulation of Australian resource projects. The simulator's goal is to highlight regions of high potential value in the early planning/exploration phase. Bluecap is designed to assist companies in focusing their efforts on regions more likely to generate commercially-viable projects. It was initially developed for the purpose of supporting mineral exploration, and has recently been expanded to include the capability to model hydrogen production.
The simulator is a pre-scoping tool that uses coarse-level empirical models to compare project prospects across large areas. Due to its broad scale, Bluecap lacks the detailed information necessary for full feasibility studies, and as such, it should not be used as the sole basis for investment decisions.
The Bluecap software underpins Geoscience Australia's Hydrogen Economic Fairways Tool (HEFT) and Economic Fairways Mapper.
If you use Bluecap for a publication, please cite the following:
Walsh, S.D.C., Northey, S.A., Huston, D., Yellishetty, M. and Czarnota, K. (2020) Bluecap: A Geospatial Model to Assess Regional Economic-Viability for Mineral Resource Development, Resources Policy. Geoscience Australia eCat number: 132645
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-06-01T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-08-04T00:51:57
- Edition
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2.0
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145624
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/145624
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Walsh, S.D.C.
External Contact
- Purpose
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Geospatial economic simulation of Australian resource projects.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Haynes, M.
MEG Internal Contact Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Economy
- Society
- Transportation
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Project
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Exploring for the Future
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- Project
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EFTF
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- Theme
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Integrated economic assessment
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- Process
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Numerical cost modelling
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- Theme
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Mineral resources
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- Theme
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Critical minerals
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- Theme
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Hydrogen
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- Project
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Economic fairways
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Apache License, Version 2.0
- Alternate title
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Apache License, Version 2.0
- Website
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Link to license
Link to license
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Title
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Bluecap: A geospatial model to assess regional economic-viability for mineral resource development
- Citation identifier
- 10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101598
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Title
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Bluecap
Identifier
- Description
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The official Github repository for the Bluecap release branch.
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Title
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Economic Fairways Assessments across Northern Australia
- Citation identifier
- 133681
- Citation identifier
- 4a66601c-75d4-4416-9e7e-a7145f320e4b
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Link to the GitHub repository
Link to the GitHub repository
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Unknown
- Hierarchy level
- Software
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/485c1911-6500-4506-8461-39d9d05f8647
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Owner Haynes, M
Internal Contact Point of contact Haynes, M.
MEG Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Software
- Name
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Bluecap
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/145624
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-05-17T06:13:37
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-05-17T06:21:40
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551