Key Takeaways Acid-base accounting (ABA) itself is a standard, decades-old static/kinetic lab test — there’s no AI in the test protocol. PHREEQC, the free USGS geochemical modeling engine, is the standard open-source tool for extending raw ABA results into predictive geochemical models. The …
Key Takeaways Autonomous and semi-autonomous blast-hole drill rigs — Epiroc Pit Viper and Sandvik AutoMine — are the current commercial reality of “advanced drilling.” Autonomous drilling achieves roughly ±5 cm positioning accuracy at planned collar locations, versus roughly ±30 cm for …
Key Takeaways “Advanced sensing” on the grade-control floor is really an umbrella for three mature field/lab instruments: portable XRF/XRD, hyperspectral core scanning, and LIBS. None of these are AI tools by themselves — the AI value-add comes from the software layer that turns their …
Key Takeaways Textural analysis, grain size analysis, and mineral mapping run on the same automated-mineralogy and hyperspectral imaging stack: TESCAN TIMA, Zeiss Mineralogic, and Corescan for core-scale hyperspectral work. These platforms increasingly use …
Key Takeaways TIMA, MLA, and QEMSCAN are all SEM-based automated mineralogy platforms — they scan a polished sample, fire an electron beam, and classify every mineral grain from its X-ray spectrum, at rates up to ~100,000 grains/hour. All three now lean on …
Key Takeaways Baseline topographic survey and 3D terrain modelling are now largely drone/LiDAR-driven, with AI showing up in two distinct places: autonomous SLAM navigation during capture, and implicit-modelling interpolation once the data lands. Emesent …
Key Takeaways Lithology, structure, alteration, ore/minezone, and geotechnical domaining are all built in the same implicit-modelling suites — Leapfrog Geo, Datamine Studio RM, and Vulcan — so the AI story for all five …
Key Takeaways Strayos uses drone photogrammetry and ML/genetic-algorithm optimization trained on historical blast outcomes to recommend burden, spacing, and timing before you drill. O-Pitblast and Deswik.Blast are established commercial alternatives with …
Key Takeaways MineMax by NTWIST is explicitly AI-driven — it sits as a supervisory layer over existing mine and plant systems, continuously learning from operational outcomes to make real-time blend and feed recommendations. Deswik Blend, BOLT, and GO are the …
Key Takeaways Airborne total magnetic intensity (TMI), gravity, and magnetometry survey processing is classical geophysics — Geosoft Oasis montaj (Seequent) remains the industry-standard processing software. The AI layer is additive, not a replacement: …