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 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: …
Key Takeaways Choosing and interpreting geochemical analytical methods (aqua regia vs. multi-acid digestion, ICP-MS vs. XRF, etc.) is increasingly software-assisted rather than purely analyst judgment. ioGAS (IMDEX) is the industry-standard platform for exploring and interpreting multivariate …
Key Takeaways High-resolution automated core photography is the raw data source that most downstream AI core-analysis tools depend on. Corescan (now Epiroc), Datarock Core, and Minalyze all offer automated core photography systems designed to feed AI extraction pipelines. This is a “Yes” …
Key Takeaways Hyperspectral core scanning captures mineralogy and alteration information invisible to the naked eye, and it’s one of the most mature AI-adjacent technologies in exploration geology. Leading systems: Corescan HCI-3, CSIRO/Epiroc HyLogger 4, and Minalyze MCore. HyLogger 4 is the …
Key Takeaways Physical density testing (water immersion, wax coating, gas pycnometry) has no dedicated software of its own — it’s a bench measurement, not a computational one. The AI opportunity is predicting density from cheaper, faster proxy measurements instead of running the physical test …
Key Takeaways Envirosuite (EVS Industrial) is the leading environmental intelligence platform used by mining operations, now owned by Ideagen. It combines device-agnostic sensor integration with weather forecasting to predict dust, noise, vibration, and blast-fume impacts up to 72 hours ahead. A …
Key Takeaways Fracture spacing/frequency logging is one of the best-validated AI applications on the whole poster — it has a published head-to-head comparison against expert human logging. Datarock Core (part of IMDEX) uses a neural network to detect and classify fractures directly from core …
Key Takeaways Geochemical proxies — patterns in multi-element data that stand in for the presence of mineralization — are one of the clearest “AI already works here” stories in exploration. Platforms like VRIFY DORA, GeoVista AI, and OreFox train ML models on known-deposit geochemical …
Key Takeaways The raw geophysics (magnetics, gravity, EM survey acquisition) is still classical, mature science — AI enters at the interpretation stage. AI prospectivity-mapping platforms like VRIFY DORA fuse multiple geophysical layers with geochemistry and geology to rank exploration targets …