Key Takeaways There’s no dedicated “geotechnical reporting” AI product — most sites build BI dashboards on top of their existing modelling platform’s data. Power BI and Tableau on top of Datamine or Deswik data is the common, pragmatic path. Cancha is worth a look if you want …
Key Takeaways Grinding (SAG/ball mills) is one of the single largest energy consumers on a mine site — comminution overall is roughly half of total plant energy use, so small efficiency gains are worth real money. Closed-loop AI controllers now write mill setpoints directly, rather than just …
Key Takeaways Ground water models still rest on MODFLOW 6 or FEFLOW as the actual flow-simulation engine. PyHydroGeophysX, published in 2026, is a new open-source Python platform that bridges hydrological models (MODFLOW, ParFlow) with geophysical inversion tools like pyGIMLi and SimPEG. That bridge …
Key Takeaways Field-portable XRF is mature hardware — Evident (formerly Olympus) Vanta Max and Bruker TITAN are the two names you’ll see everywhere. The AI angle is onboard chemometric calibration and signal processing (e.g. Evident’s Axon technology), not a separate AI product you buy. …
Key Takeaways MODFLOW 6 is the USGS-maintained, actively-updated standard groundwater flow engine (v6.7 shipped February 2026) and the default starting point for any new hydrological model. FloPy wraps MODFLOW in Python, which is what actually opens the door to ML integration — scripted, …
Key Takeaways Two flavors exist: handheld point spectrometers (fast, spot checks) and full-core imaging scanners (slow, exhaustive, image-based). The core technology (VIS-NIR-SWIR reflectance spectroscopy) is mature and commercial; the “AI” part is mostly in the automated …
Key Takeaways Portable VIS-SWIR spectrometers like the ASD TerraSpec Halo (Malvern Panalytical) identify minerals in the field or on core in seconds via spectral-library matching. Note: as of this writing, the TerraSpec Halo itself is listed as no longer …
Key Takeaways Corescan and CSIRO’s HyLogger are the two systems that dominate this space — there isn’t a fragmented field of competitors to evaluate. CSIRO’s MyLogger is the concrete “neural network on spectra” step that makes …
Key Takeaways “Informed” logging means the geologist (or AI system) logs new core with the benefit of prior geological/geophysical model context, not in isolation. Datarock Core and Seequent Central’s logging module both support this by surfacing existing model context alongside …
Key Takeaways LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) detects light elements — lithium, boron, carbon, sodium, fluorine — that handheld XRF simply can’t see. The SciAps Z-300/Z-903 is the standard handheld unit, covering the full periodic table from hydrogen to uranium. No X-rays means no …