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Mining Geology 2014

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Cook Open Pit Model - The Hurdles: How We Leapt, Lunged, Stumbled and Overcame Them

At Newmont's Jundee Operation, exploration and resource geologists collaborated to produce an open pit resource model. Using a variety of modelling and estimation techniques but no new data, an uneconomic underground target was converted into a potentially economic open pit evaluation. During an industry downturn, it is more important than ever to efficiently share expertise, ideas and resources to problem solve and produce meaningful project outcomes. The two departments brought together different methods and ideas, and the process showed that certain methods worked better than others in different situations, thus the appropriate method was applied to each part of the evaluation. The results were used to create new procedures and improved lithology modelling and resource model estimations. Adaptability of the geology departments and collaboration such as this are key to ongoing improvements and future mine life at Jundee.CITATION:Dudgeon, K, Paradis, J and Topping, M, 2014. Cook open pit model - the hurdles: how we leapt, lunged, stumbled and overcame them, in Proceedings Ninth International Mining Geology Conference 2014 , pp 169-174 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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