Direct sampling techniques | Earth Resources | meriSTEM
Channel: meriSTEM Education
Date: 2021-09-02

Professor John Mavrogenes (Mav) from the Australian National University (anu.edu.au) provides an overview of direct sampling techniques for finding mineral resources. This is part of a series of videos on non-renewable resources

This clip has been created by the Research School of Earth Sciences (rses.anu.edu.au). These resources are part of a comprehensive program, curriculum matched to the unit 'Unit 3 Living on Earth - extracting, using and managing Earth resources'.

This video touches on the following curriculum descriptors: 
Mineral and energy resources are discovered using a variety of remote sensing techniques (for example, satellite images, aerial photographs and geophysical datasets) and direct sampling techniques (for example, drilling, core sampling, soil and rock sampling) to identify the spatial extent of the deposit and quality of the resource (ACSES073)

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