Christchurch - May travelling lecture: Pointers and Pitfalls: A resource geo explains to explains to exploration geos why their data matters

Join the New Zealand Branch in Christchurch, at their May travelling lecture: Pointers and Pitfalls: A resource geo explains to explains to exploration geos why their data matters.

About this event

Mineral Resource Estimates (MRE) are the foundation stone of a mining project and are relied on to predict project outcomes. MRE’s represent a mathematical summary of data from multiple sources to predict tonnes, grade, mill recovery, rock hardness and some environmental factors and the majority of the information comes from drilling managed by an exploration team. This information following validation gets loaded into a software package such as LeapFrog and the fun begins as there is not a unique solution.

Our speaker, Mo Srivastava, will talk about how exploration geology is critical to resource estimation or any estimation of anything. It provides the drill hole data necessary for mineral resource estimation, and it also provides insights into the physical and chemical processes that control mineralisation. This talk, by someone who has not only crunched numbers but has also spat on core, describes how data flows from the field to the office. It will give some advice on what exploration geologists can do to help make the computer model of a mineral deposit as reliable as possible. It also addresses some of the pitfalls that plague resource estimation and discusses how exploration target ranges can be used to bracket the possible tonnage and grade when it is difficult to build a reliable resource block model.

Program
5.30pm - 6.00pm: Arrival and pre-event networking
6.00pm - 7.00pm: Presentation
7.00pm - 7.30pm: Post event networking  

Speaker/s

Mo Srivastava

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Mo Srivastava has written many technical articles and book chapters on the theory and practice of geostatistics, including “An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics”, a widely used textbook. His mining industry work runs from exploration through to operations and production planning. He has advised companies on public disclosure, worked on due diligence review teams for mergers and acquisitions, and served as an expert witness in litigation and arbitration. Mo’s resource and reserve estimation experience includes precious and base metals, industrial minerals and energy fuels. He has worked on mineral projects on every continent … except Antarctica; but he has lent his talents to counting penguins.