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 | May 16, 2020 | Bulk Density, Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources, Production Reconciliation
At first glance, reporting of grade and tons from underground face sampling seems like a no-brainer application of simple arithmetic in EXCEL, right? Yup, no argument there…except, how come it is almost always done incorrectly due to faulty formulas, faulty...
by dcameron | Dec 30, 2017 | All, Exploration, Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources, Sampling
How do your samples stack up against the ones taken by your Great Grandfather? Rickard, 1903: “No ground that can be mined in the ordinary way, that is, by drilling holes and charging them with an explosive, is too tough for a moil struck by a double-hand hammer,...
