Ever approached a task and wished you had a bird's eye view as to how others might solve the same problem? The Parker Challenge, created in association with the upcoming 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation conference and designed to quantify the ‘between person variance’ or ‘pattern noise’ in resource estimation aims to find out.

In order to showcase the variability in contemporary mineral resource estimation and leverage the disparate skills, perspectives and knowledge of our industry’s professionals, The Parker Challenge has multiple resource estimators creating a classified model from the same base dataset.

Estimates from challenge participants will be amalgamated and the results compared. The range of outcomes, differences in approaches and classification decisions will be presented during the conference along with the winner for the challenge.

An unprecedented challenge that has the potential to catapult the industry forward.

Dr Harry Parker was widely known and respected as an authority and expert in the field of resource modelling and geostatistics.  He emphasised the preparation of resource models that reflect both local geological controls on grade and orebody geometry as well as the degree of selectivity implicit in the mining method.  These insights were gained from combining an impressive breadth of experience with deep technical knowledge. Lifting The Parker Challenge trophy is a prestigious nod to a man for whom such an exercise would have been fascinating!