Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
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News and information from the world of geology and mining, Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro provides a new perspective on the mining industry and seeks to educate on best practice.
Snowden Optiro is a resources consulting and advisory group that provides independent advice, consulting and training to mining and exploration companies, their advisors and investors.
We help mine developers to advance their projects, mining companies to improve their operations and their professionals, and investors to derisk their investments by the provision of quality advice, training and software in the field of Mineral Resources and Mineral/Ore Reserves.
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Ep 140: Sandwich Conveyors Explained: high-angle haulage up to 90 degrees
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Ep 137: From Tea Bags to Ore Bodies: Ian Glacken's Mentoring Journey
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Ep 139: IPCC or Strategic Conveying – what are we really talking about?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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EP 136: Why Smart Geologists Script Their Way to Better Estimates
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ep 134: The Interface Challenge - bridging the gap between geologists and mining engineers
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ep 138: From Scoping to Feasibility: How to nail cost estimation at every stage
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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EP 135: Fast-Tracking IPCC Feasibility: A Smarter Way to Evaluate In-Pit Crushing and Conveying
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ep 131: Grade Control - at the heart of every successful mine
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Ep 130: Comminution Circuits Explained: Maximise Throughput, Minimise Costs
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Ep 129: Streamlining Mineral Resource Workflows: Smarter, Faster, Better
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Ep 128: Sampling mistakes that could cost millions
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Ep 127: AI in Mining: Hype, Reality, and What's Next
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Ep 126: The Hidden World of Silica Sands
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Ep 125: Inside the Black Box: essential guide to plant sampling
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Ep 124: Stochastic Mine Planning - Evolving approaches to manage uncertainty
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Ep:123. Why Sampling Can Make or Break a Mine - Part 1 of 3
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Ep 122: Mining the Margins - What makes nickel laterites so complex
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Ep 121: Power Shift: Why the Mining Industry Is Going Electric
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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EP 133: Cleaner, Quieter, Safer: Why Underground Mining Is Going Electric
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Ep 132: Grade Control - the key to reliable reconciliation
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Ep 120: How Final is Your Final Pit?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Ep 119: The Dangerous Comfort of One Mine Plan
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Ep 118: Resurrecting Gold Projects - The Data Dilemma
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Ep 117: The Hidden Number That Changes Your Mine Plan. Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Ep 116: From Models to Money: Getting Resource Estimates Right
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Ep 115: What Resource Geologists Need to Know About Mine Planning. Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Ep 114: The Cutoff Grade Strategy That Can Boost Your NPV by 20%
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Ep 113: Measured? Not so fast! Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Episode 112: Financing Mines: The Investment Bank Role. Part 2
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May 28, 2025 |
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Ep 111: Reading Between the Lines. Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
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May 21, 2025 |
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Ep 110: Financing Mines - what banks really look for
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May 15, 2025 |
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Ep 109: Part 2 - Resource Classification in Practice
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May 07, 2025 |
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108: Processing the Risk: Metallurgy in Mining Due Diligence
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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107: Unlocking Gold - tackling refractory ores
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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106: Practical Realities of Resource Classification
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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105: The Hidden Lever in Mine Planning
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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104: Cut-Off Grades - Small Number Big Impact
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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103: Tin, Copper and Cornish Ingenuity
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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102: Cleaner - Quieter - Safer
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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101: Machine Learning - Case Study
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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100: A thorny and divisive topic!
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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99: Modelling & Managing Resource Depletion
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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98 - Pre-Feasibility Studies
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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97 - Recoverable Resources versus Recoverable Reserves PART 2
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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96 - Geometallurgical Sampling
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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95 - Recoverable Resources versus Recoverable Reserves PART 1
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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94 - Inside Large Open Pit Mine Planning
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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93 - Panel Discussion on Mine Electrification – its impact on strategic mine planning
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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92 - Detrending
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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91 - Declustering Techniques
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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90 - Trolley Assist
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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89 - Managing mining studies
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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88 - Underground Mine Electrification
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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87 - Cut-off Grades - PART 2
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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86 - The Importance of Pit Phasing in Open Pit Mine Planning
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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85 - Cut-off Grades
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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84 - Geometallurgical Modelling. Fresh Thinking Podcast
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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83 - Key Insights into the Mineral Resource Review Processes - Part 2
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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82 - Review of Mineral Resources - Overview
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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81 - The History and origins of Geometallurgy
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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80 - What Mining Engineers Need to Know About Resource Estimation
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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79 - Key Considerations for Resource Geologists Delivering Models to Mine Planners
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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78 - Commodity Series: Hard Rock Lithium
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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77 - Draft JORC Code Update: Competent Person Changes
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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76 - Mineral resource & reserve reporting for JSE-listed companies
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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75 - The real role of a mine geologist
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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74 - Mining the truth
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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73 - Reconciliation Insights: Navigating the Draft JORC Code
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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72 - Open pit mining model preparation
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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71 - Commodity Series: Nickel Sulfide
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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70 - Decoding Compliance: JORC vs. SAMREC
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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69 - Exploring African Mining: Insights from Local Presence
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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68 - Commodity Series - Gold Deposits
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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67 - Mining Geology and Ore Control - Part 2
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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66 - Underground Mine Planning Process
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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65 - Commodity Series - Gold
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May 30, 2024 |
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64 - Mining Geology and Ore Control
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May 21, 2024 |
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63 - Commodity Podcast Series – Tin
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May 14, 2024 |
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62 - Open Pit Mine Planning Process
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May 08, 2024 |
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60 - Commodity Podcast Series - Copper
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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59 - Commodity Podcast Series - Tungsten
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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57 - Top Cutting Strategy for Resource Estimation
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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58 - Technical Due Diligence for Mining
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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56 - Electrification of the Mining Process. Fresh Thinking Podcast
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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55 - Applications of Conditional Simulation - PART 2
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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54 - Applications of Conditional Simulation - PART 1
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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53 - Conditional Simulation: What It Is and Why It Is Important.
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Technical Due Diligence for Geology and Mineral Resources
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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52 - Validation of Mineral Resource Models
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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51 - MIK Localisation - Gold Deposit
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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50 - The Closure Problem–greater than the sum of its parts?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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49 - User Perspectives on Supervisor and Isatis Software
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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48 - Data transparency across the mine value chain
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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47 - DOM: Declared Ore Mined
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May 18, 2023 |
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46 - Reconciliation and Moisture
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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45 - Reconciliation vs Rescaling
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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44 - Reconcilor 20 Year Anniversary
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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43 - IPCC - Inpit Crushing and Conveying - Part 2
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May 24, 2022 |
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42 - IPCC - Inpit Crushing and Conveying
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May 13, 2022 |
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41 - Economics of Project Development
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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40 - Increasing productivity – a case study
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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39 - Part 2 of 2 – Multiple Indicator Kriging (MIK)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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38 - Categorical Kriging - what is it and when does it work? Part 1 of 2
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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37 - Classifying mineral resources
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May 25, 2020 |
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36 - ASX Market Releases
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May 11, 2020 |
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35 - Table 1
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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34 - Metal Equivalents
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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33 - RPEEE: is all hope lost?
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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32 - The resource model "sniff test"
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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31 - From data to resource model
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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30 - Bulk assaying techniques
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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29 - Bulk Sampling for Resource Validation
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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28 - The travels of a geologist (part 4)
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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27 - The travels of a geologist (part 3)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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26 - The travels of a geologist (part 2)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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25 - The travels of a geologist (part 1)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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24 - Geological interpretation and modelling
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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23 - Recoverable resources (part two)
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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22 - Recoverable resources (part 1)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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21 - Underground grade control and sampling
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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20 - Coarse gold sampling and assaying
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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19 - What is geometallurgy?
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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18 - Relationships matter
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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17 - Due Diligence Tips and Traps (part 4 of 4)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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16 - Due Diligence Process (part 3 of 4)
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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15 - Scoping Due Diligence (part 2 of 4)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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14 - Due Diligence - What is it? (part 1 of 4)
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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13 - On the same page with reconciliation dashboards
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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12 - QAQC - going deeper on accuracy and precision (part 2)
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May 28, 2019 |
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11 - QAQC - going deeper on accuracy and precision (part 1)
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May 14, 2019 |
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10 - Seven rules for report writing
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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9 - Sampling - the critical decisions
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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8 - QAQC - quality is everything! (Part 2)
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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7 - QAQC - quality is everything! (part 1)
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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6 - Declustering - what is the true grade?
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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5 - Reconciliation
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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4 - Politics and Ideology of Resource Estimation (part 2)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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3 - Politics and Ideology of Resource Estimation (part 1)
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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2 - Reasonable Prospects of Eventual Economic Extraction
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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1 - Top Cuts
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Jan 09, 2019 |