ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MINERAL EXPLORATION

There must be a number of good mines hidden away in written reports gathering dust on
various library shelves. A big challenge is how to get this information into a form that a
computer can start to work with.

Hey Watson! Is there gold in them thar hills?

Geologists start to drill into artificial intelligence.

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Thomas Sant They are looking for ore but training Watson to think like an
engineer... I suppose getting it to think like a geologist is just too advanced for its
current abilities!

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Debbie Thornton there is Michael I've been scanning them for the last couple of months
chasing an opportunity.


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Arturo Rochefort Rojas Hi Every One. We have been working on this task for the last 4
years in Chile, my company is called Mineral Forecast. Of course is totally complex to
think like a person, but what really is all of these about is to find pattern

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Rabinarayan Mishra Mining.com reports that Vancouver-based Goldcorp took a

technological leap to become the first company in the mining sector to go public about its
intentions to harness artificial intelligence being deployed across the mineral industry.

Venkat Reddy Dharmapuram Geological in puts requires to understand basically

formation of ore/mineral deposit-We have to understand status of geological process resulted
and present status of mineral deposit.All exploration techniques suggest us /guie -to find out
mineral deposits-intelligence interpretation computer aided -techniques will guide further in
puts
Nature is great -for hiding mineral deposits.Geological interpretations field checks and repeated
interpretation will give clues for finding mineral deposits
Prof DVREDDY-Editor in Chief Int Journ of Earth Sciences and
Engineeringdvr1952@gmail.com


s m k kazimi True but that age is gone.now it is data only and its dynamics
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Cain Saint Merat Soon we will look back and realize that Watson is not much more than
Hell9000's great grandfather. With the progression of quantum computing and potentially first
institute sales of these devices and their complex algorithm neural webs may potentially rival
wiring of the human brain, but with pure logic and reason. If the initial algorithms can be
designed to recognize garbage in, garbage out and work with minimal data say to target
generate a greenfields project then you may just need geos to conduct the programing and a kill
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Cain Saint Merat Arturo Rochefort Rojas -I quickly checked your site and realize you have
Anglo involved. I would be interested if your algorithms could pick a real grass roots region
completely remote of any brownfields data. This would be a true testament of your 4 years
work.
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 Arturo Rochefort Rojas Cain Saint Merat I agree with you, we only need the data to try
this. If you are really interested send me an email arochefort@mineralforecast.cl. we can talk
from here.
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Bob Findlay Well, I for one enjoy reading. And fossicking through old reports, and if one
uses one's brain one can separate, assimilate and evaluate information quickly. .Have we yet got
to the stage where computers have imagination? What is needed is the ability to see between
the lines of "all available data" and to recognise what is possible and even probable when we
haven't got all the data. Mostrar menos
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Michael Potter Dear Bob, I agree with you wholeheartedly, and some of those old reports
are not only scientifically very sound, they are works of art.
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Arturo Rochefort Rojas I totaly agrede with Bob, all the programs and algorithms will
learn on the available data so there should be always a gelogist making the decitions.
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Susan Webb Not just library shelves - but companies that close down - often these data
become orphan data!!
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Matthew Booth One possible issue that people overlook is the quality of the data being
recorded. Visual logging data isn't perfect (alteration is often poorly logged especially when
you compare it to Core Scan), and there have been significant advancements in analytical
methods and digests that may make old data essentially obsolete as they will not have had the
low detection limits to accurately determine the geochemical footprint of a deposit.Mostrar
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Bob Findlay Whatever one does to old data with a computer, it remains old data, and without
doing more fieldwork and drilling, old data in legacy reports is what we have to deal with when
we are planning new fieldwork and new drilling. That is perhaps where a geologist's intuition
may become important; something about that old geological map just doesn't "smell" right and
hence it becomes a target for investigation. That said, I am all for technological developments
that enhance data-collection. As for companies closing down; they should be compelled by law
to pass on their data to the local Geological Survey/Mines Department. And all too often, a
company's Final Report or Annual Report is presented, often quite deliberately, far too
skimpily.

Neels Le Roux Not only the Historical reports but also the pool of knowledge in the Human
Capital should be documented. Skill and knowledge lost for ever
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William Mansker Based on my age and experience, I have much of this info in my head . . .
just difficult to 'mine'. BTW: I am so old that I don't even buy green bananas anymore!
(HAHA!)
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Hugo Dominguez Read my M.Sc. Thesis.



Tony Simon There is no doubt that a huge amount of potentially valuable information is
socked away in filing cabinets of old geologists or the companies that employed them.
All this information should be centralized and digitized.
There is a huge advantage in doing so because all reports can be organized according to Lat-
Long.
I am putting a proposal together for Google (the only company I can think of that will do this
properly)
Anybody interested in helping provide credibility?
Tony Simon ts@seguroprojects.comMostrar menos
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Steve Gray A company called "Gold Spot" has a nice jump on the " computer learning
algorithms " competition. They were one of the top 5 finalist at this year's #Disrupt mining
contest at PDAC.

Jane Hammarstrom The Anaconda Company's collection of data resides at the University
of Wyoming - this is a great resource and might be a good place for others to dump old
data,Seehttps://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/anaconda/
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Rabinarayan Mishra I thought the word ARTICIAL could have been ARTIFICIAL. Let
some one correct me if I'm in the error.
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Bob Findlay Organising old reports in a GIS according to latitude and longitude is fine but it
helps to know which geoid was in use at the time. This is a bugbear of legacy company maps.
Which projection was being used when the map was drawn? This is a rarely seen piece of
information and yet critical for putting layers together in databases. And likewise legacy
company maps. How often do they use a mine grid and give no conversion? Or even no
coordinates at all? One is left fiddling around trying to establish points for georeferencing by
using the sites of huts, railway lines, road junctions etc etc and it is very hard to get the type of
accuracy one now expects of the average hand-held GPS

As for Google being the repository; perish the thought. It's a job for the UN via the IUGS, an
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Sandy Figuers the name says it all.

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Warwick Anderson Don't get me started on that Bob- Mt Chalmers is still a nightmare with
its local grids and lack of information!
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Bob Findlay Hi Warwick; yes!
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Bill Feyerabend An equally big challenge to discovery is teaching young geologists to park
the vehicle and put on their boots.
I know there are success stories using big data like the Red Lake district, but I have been
pleasantly surprised by how useful it can be on low tech MapInfo to separate each component
on a geologic map and really think thru what geology is telling you. Doing that has led me to
re-focusing a dog porphyry gold model on a property in Mexico to epithermal and amazingly
revitalize it. I also used it on lithium brines to, first, focus on the property and, second, select
the drill sites. I am thinking about writing an article about discovery by de-
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Satrianto Utomo maybe it is better for future geologist try to explore under sea for new gold
economically prospect area.. ;)
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Sandy j Gala (jewl) There is a secret. that will never be discovered by a computer. It is
secret and hidden will never be located by any type of machine . there's the clue. It is an
 invisible force but defined as a fact . . their my friend is where a world of treasures are hidden
at . .
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Satrianto Utomo it will be always man behind the gun..

Daniel Muller It is called data mining! :-)

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Rabinarayan Mishra Monarques Gold Corp. will use DIAGNOS Artificial Intelligence
tools to optimize exploration of Croinor Gold.
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 Rabinarayan Mishra BROSSARD, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Dec. 21, 2016) -

DIAGNOS Inc. ("DIAGNOS" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:ADK), a leader in
applying Artificial Intelligence in data mining technical services, announces today the signing
of an agreement for the use of CARDS (Computer Aided Resource Detection Software) to
generate mining targets on the Croinor Gold property owned by Monarques Gold Corporation
("Monarques") (TSX VENTURE:MQR).

"The use of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is rapidly growing in all spheres of our lives and the
mining exploration sector definitely needs new powerful tools to optimize the use of its capital
to discover new mining deposits. The few new discoveries in the mining world is concerning.
In 2016, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM have exposed us to AI. Diagnos uses and perfected
artificial intelligence since 2000 and is positioned as one of the pioneers in this industry," said
Mr. Michel Fontaine, Vice-President, mining of DIAGNOS.
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Rabinarayan Mishra "This agreement will allow us to complement and optimize our
drilling campaign, thanks to the powerful algorithms of DIAGNOS on our huge database. Over
the years, we have accumulated tons of data. This objective targeting using complex algorithms
allows a non-biased geological, statistical and stochastic approach. CARDS will help our
geologists optimize geoscience data and identify potential gold-bearing targets in a 2D
environment in a short time on our Croinor Gold property," said Mr. Jean-Marc Lacoste,
President and CEO of Monarques."Mostrar menos
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Juan Vera Michael, you are right. There are so many old mining reports hidden on library
shelves; projects were not minable in such ancient times; but today, because an increase on
metal prices they are profitable right now; most of them are small-scale mining projects in
Mexico.
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Kema Salome Ashiyana I must say this is a very interesting topic, i enjoy these insightful
posts. Thank you all.
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s m k kazimi Any data needs a review and preferably from different angles and old reports
certainly needs a one to one talk between geol.grophy.geochem and mining professionals aided
by data analysis experts.
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Nicholas O'Reilly A spin-off of the British Geological Survey, IGS International already
provides a mineral exploration artificial intelligence offering called IGS Xplore.
See http://www.igsint.com/igs-xplore/
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Matt Jackson I am very excited about the potential for AI to assist with targetting however I
suspect that what Goldcorp are proposing will not have much application in prospecting. Also,
I suspect that what IGS is doing is not AI (I am happy to be proved wrong) because they say
that they are not using statistics. AI is statistics on steroids. If us geologists are going to
genuinely use AI, we need to stop being so scared of stats. Rather than throwing around AI as a
way of pushing up their share prices, companies could even try some relatively simple
statistical modelling methods such as Monte Carlo Simulation...Mostrar menos
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Edward Lewis Hi Matt Jackson, there are many routes to AI, IBM Watson and the IGS
Xplore system both use semantic technology which allows computers to understand (a
philosopher may argue) the data they store whether its qualitative or quantitive and query these
datasets sometimes using stats sometimes not. Stats don't require AI - it's only computing, data
mining of reports and maps is where the AI offers clear advantages in time, efficiency and
limiting bias.