Archives: Mineral exploration

Australia’s government has extended Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program for a further four years in a move that will support a stronger recovery and more regional jobs across the whole country, according to the Minerals Council of Australia. The program has been highly successful in collecting pre-competitive geophysical data from the north[…]

Canadian gold miner Roxgold has drawn on MICROMINE’s leading exploration and 3D mine design software to accelerate exploration at the Séguéla Gold Project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The software has helped fast-track maiden mineral resource estimates resulting in a notable increase in estimates for the total project resource. Roxgold reported updated mineral resource estimates[…]

By Wolfgang Baum* Dan Gleeson wrote in International Mining April 2020, “…near identical flowsheets have remained the status quo for decades, with the only variation tending to be how many pieces of conventional equipment are used, as opposed to what new innovations are slotted in up- or downstream of primary crushing”. It is puzzling that,[…]

Novo Resources says it is in advanced discussions with Steinert Australia to procure a 1 m wide KSS 100F LIXT fine mechanical sorting unit, to be deployed at its wholly-owned Purdy’s Reward and Comet Well JV gold projects, in Western Australia, during the 2020 field season. The sorter will be manufactured by Steinert in Germany[…]

K2fly has signed up diversified mining and metals company, South32, to use its resource governance solution, RCubed. South32 is expected to use the platform for its mineral inventory reporting for five years, with the total contract value more than A$880,000 ($608,419), K2fly said. The full implementation is to commence immediately and will cover 19 global[…]

DiUS and Solve Geosolutions have leveraged PyTorch-based image analysis techniques to help automate the analysis of drill core imagery and provide greater insight that can be used to influence decision making on mine sites. Mine sites often produce between 100 and 1,000 m of drill core per day, generating hundreds of images a week at[…]

Following recent successes at El Peñón, GoldSpot Discoveries Corp has been reengaged by Yamana Gold  to use machine learning to identify new drilling targets at the Cerro Moro gold and silver mine, in Argentina. Yamana has commissioned GoldSpot’s team of geologists and data scientists to examine its entire database and look for previously unrecognised data[…]

Australia-based mining software developer Deswik says it has launched a new tool to help automate infill drill hole planning. Deswik Drillhole Optimizer (Deswik.DHO) is a module for the company’s Deswik.CAD design platform, which optimises the position of infill drill holes to maximise the uplift in resource classification within a given budget, the company says. “Deswik.DHO[…]

Draganfly Inc, a leading manufacturer within the commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), and unmanned vehicle sector (UVS), has announced a Preferred Flight Services agreement with Windfall Geotek Inc on a fee for service basis. Windfall Geotek is a mining technology services company and user of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced[…]

Olympus has added to its line of handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysers for fast light element detection with the Vanta Element-S XRF instrument. The new unit delivers fast light element detection at an affordable price, joining a family of cost-effective, entry-level Vanta Element XRF instruments, the company says. The S model is equipped with a[…]