by dcameron | Apr 7, 2025 | Bulk Density, Measurement Systems, Mineral Resources, Significant Figures
It may seem like a mundane question, but do we report tonnage, grade and metal correctly and consistently in our public disclosures of mineral resources and reserves? I’ll venture that our public disclosures of mineral resources and reserves don’t always measure up....
by dcameron | Mar 12, 2025 | Bulk Density, Climate Change, Critical Minerals, Drill Hole Spacing, Geo Logic, Geostatistics, Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources, QA/QC, Resource Classification, Significant Figures
Like it or not, we got a taste of the power wielded by overuse of the word “science” in this decade. Heretofore, some of us innocently thought that science was an abstraction, but we subsequently found out that it can be used as a club. While we can...
by dcameron | Sep 2, 2024 | ESG
As I was skipping rapidly over the mining news and the now-standard genuflections to the “net-zero” energy transition in various sections of the magazine written by people who should know better, I paused on this page (below) for the irony. I wonder if I keep reading...
by dcameron | Mar 20, 2023 | A.I., Grade Control, Production Reconciliation
With all this talk recently about artifiicial intelligence, we need to be careful with its application. A fairly long time ago I was Chief Geologist for a mining company that had recently purchased an operating gold mine on a southern continent, the geological staff...
by dcameron | Nov 20, 2022 | DIE Factor, Drill Hole Spacing, Geostatistics, Mineral Resources, Resource Classification
I’d like to introduce the patient reader and my clients to a conceptually simple tool that is useful for the assessment of resource risk. The Drill Hole Information Effect (DIE), as I propose to call it, is the observation that the deeper...
