by dcameron | Aug 15, 2025 | All, Bulk Density, Exploration, Geo Logic, Measurement Systems, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources, QA/QC, Resource Classification, Sampling, Significant Figures
This is going to be a really boring read for any but the most habitual miners in the miniscule audience. Even if most of us economic geologist types will agree that rock bulk density is a neglected subject in all facets of exploration, mineral resource estimation and...
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 | Feb 8, 2022 | Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources
The mining industry has lost one of its best mining engineers with the death of James S Knowlson V this last January 2, 2022. Jim was the Chief Engineer at Anaconda’s Butte, Montana operations, starting there as an underground sampler in the late 60’s while he worked...
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,...
