This week's 30 Seconds of Info comes from Ian Glacken - Director of Geology: Always look at a range of top-cut (capping) techniques: There is no single ‘magic bullet’ technique for top-cutting a set of data; the top-cut chosen will depend upon the nature of the data, the support of the data and the location of the sample points...
Blanks should never be inserted at regular intervals within the sample stream: It is always much more easy for automation of the QAQC process that blanks are inserted at regular intervals, but this is not optimal and is in fact…
Here is the Optiro summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for week 16 – 22 January. 109 new technical reports were published: 11 mineral resources 1 maiden resource 89 exploration / drilling (28 more than last week and highest…
This week’s 30 Seconds of Info comes from Ian Glacken – Director of Geology. Grabbing samples from ore passes: Deriving grades from underground ore passes, especially in precious metal mines, is a hit-and-miss activity at best, and may give a…
Here is a summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report for 9-15 January. Reports published: 79 new technical reports 10 mineral resources 3 maiden resources 61 exploration / drilling 4 environmental reports 29% used JORC Code 67% used NI43-101…
Optiro's summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for the week 2-8 January 2017 gives you: the types of reports; the Reporting Codes used; the location of the projects; the project commodities; the most popular Consulting Groups; and the top 3 drill intersections.
This week’s 30 Seconds Of Info comes from Ian Glacken – Director of Geology: iglacken@snowdenoptiro.com Reconciliation best practice: No subjectivity; a robust industrial-strength database at the heart of the system; no spreadsheets for mission-critical data; charts and colours make understanding…
