Course Outline:

• Introduction – flow of tasks, key Surpac concepts
• Data quality – using Surpac to perform validation checks on input data
• Geology and Domaining – geology of a real-life data set, basic wireframing techniques and validation, assigning domain codes to drillholes
• Data preparation – compositing within domains, validating composites
• Statistics – understanding and reporting statistical parameters, topcutting
• Continuity – understanding and modelling variograms, using variogram maps to develop anisotropy ellipsoid parameters
• Estimation – understanding different techniques, using Surpac to perform estimates, optimising estimation metrics (e.g. block size, number of samples)
• Validation – using Surpac to validate a model against input data
• Post-processing – understanding change of support and recoverable resources
• Classification and reporting – understanding the Codes, using Surpac to assess and assign classification categories
• Risk and uncertainty – understanding the basics of simulation, and when it is useful
• Reconciliation – using Surpac to validate a resource model against grade control data

During the course you will:

• Understand the workflow required to create, validate, and classify a resource in Surpac
• Learn how to use Surpac to create and validate geological domains
• Understand how to create composites from raw sample data in Surpac within a domain
• Learn how to report and analyse statistical properties of a data set with Surpac
• Use Surpac to identify and perform topcuts
• Understand how to use Surpac’s variogram maps to define anisotropy ellipsoid parameters
• Use Surpac to perform several different types of estimations
• Learn the many ways to validate a resource model using Surpac
• Appreciate the key criteria for resource classification, and how to use Surpac to assign resource categories

You will need to bring your laptop and Surpac dongle to the training.

If you would like to register on this course, please email Sam Robinson our Training & Project Administrator:  training@snowdenoptiro.com

In-house /Online or Onsite training is a cost-effective way of getting your whole team trained. Please email Diana Ross our Training Manager training@snowdenoptiro.com for a quote or further information.