❓ The Minister for Mines and Petroleum provides an update on the expansion of the Perth Core Library, including a $2.5 million allocation for viewing area improvements and spectroscopic logging equipment.
AnsweredQoN 413Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
PERTH CORE LIBRARY — EXPANSION
413. Dr G.G. JACOBS to the Minister for
Mines and Petroleum:
Can the minister please update the
house on plans to expand the Perth Core Library?
413. Dr G.G. JACOBS to the Minister for
Mines and Petroleum:
Can the minister please update the
house on plans to expand the Perth Core Library?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Eyre for his
question, and I am delighted to update the house on the expansion of the Perth
Core Library. I note that there are two core libraries in Western Australia,
and the other is in Kalgoorlie. The member for Eyre's constituents
would mainly utilise the Kalgoorlie Core Library, which I visited last year.
However, this question is about the Perth Core Library, and I am delighted to
report that the government is allocating $2.5 million towards the expansion of
the viewing area in the Perth Core Library. Last year we allocated $4.8 million
to expand the storage capacity by 50 per cent, and the $2.5 million this year
goes towards a viewing area, a conference room and, importantly, the expansion
of the area housing the rapid spectroscopic logging and imaging system. This is
a very important aspect of the core library because all the cores that come
into the library are analysed by this machine, which takes a photograph and
analyses the elements in each core so that a picture is obtained of all the
elements in the core. This information is stored in a database so that
explorers and geologists who use the core library can also go online and
ascertain the elements contained in each core.
As can be seen by what I have just
outlined, the core library is probably the best in the world. I cannot say that
it definitely is the best, but it certainly is one of the world's best
facilities and it supports a very important exploration industry in Western
Australia. That is why Western Australia is rated as one of the best places to
invest. Of all the important ways in which we support the exploration industry,
this is one that I am particularly pleased about.
Over the past five years, there has
been a three to six-month waiting list to use the viewing area. This is how important
it is; people are dying to get in there, and there is a three to six-month
waiting period to go in and look at those cores. This $2.5 million will
hopefully reduce that waiting period—I am not making this a key
performance indicator—to two to three months.
question, and I am delighted to update the house on the expansion of the Perth
Core Library. I note that there are two core libraries in Western Australia,
and the other is in Kalgoorlie. The member for Eyre's constituents
would mainly utilise the Kalgoorlie Core Library, which I visited last year.
However, this question is about the Perth Core Library, and I am delighted to
report that the government is allocating $2.5 million towards the expansion of
the viewing area in the Perth Core Library. Last year we allocated $4.8 million
to expand the storage capacity by 50 per cent, and the $2.5 million this year
goes towards a viewing area, a conference room and, importantly, the expansion
of the area housing the rapid spectroscopic logging and imaging system. This is
a very important aspect of the core library because all the cores that come
into the library are analysed by this machine, which takes a photograph and
analyses the elements in each core so that a picture is obtained of all the
elements in the core. This information is stored in a database so that
explorers and geologists who use the core library can also go online and
ascertain the elements contained in each core.
As can be seen by what I have just
outlined, the core library is probably the best in the world. I cannot say that
it definitely is the best, but it certainly is one of the world's best
facilities and it supports a very important exploration industry in Western
Australia. That is why Western Australia is rated as one of the best places to
invest. Of all the important ways in which we support the exploration industry,
this is one that I am particularly pleased about.
Over the past five years, there has
been a three to six-month waiting list to use the viewing area. This is how important
it is; people are dying to get in there, and there is a three to six-month
waiting period to go in and look at those cores. This $2.5 million will
hopefully reduce that waiting period—I am not making this a key
performance indicator—to two to three months.
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