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 Alteration modelling has quietly shifted from “geologist draws domains from logging” to “hyperspectral data informs the domains directly.” Leapfrog Geo’s implicit modelling engine (FastRBF) is the standard tool for building the 3D alteration surfaces …
Key Takeaways Clay content is a first-order driver of flotation, filtration, and tailings behavior — getting it wrong in the block model has real downstream cost. Corescan’s HCI and CSIRO’s HyLogger are the two dominant systems for measuring clay mineralogy from core at scale. …
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 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 …