Second circular and Welcome to the course!
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The best way to enhance your geochemical (and structural) dataset analysis
On-line course delivery via Zoom
Week commencing Mon July 20 (set-up Monday, 3 hours/day Tues-Fri).
Presenters: Nick Oliver (HCOVGlobal)
with Fred Blaine and Dave Lawie (IMDEX),
and Nick Cook (Mawson Resources)
Organisers: Nick Oliver, Nick Cook
Technical delivery support: Nick Cook
(Mawson), Putra Sadikin and Sophie
Alexander (IMDEX)
Endorsed by: IMDEX/REFLEX, Mawson
Resources, AIG, EGRU, UQ-SMI/WH Bryan
Centre
Course general
schedule and uploading
information for Prac A
Tips:
• two screens (even three if you have them)
is best
• Ethernet connection will reduce possible lag
effects, OR try to get close as possible to
your wifi router or extender
• Don’t panic if you are falling behind – you
can use the ‘chat’ and we can try to answer
as we are going, or use the official Q&A
sessions,
• Or you can watch, use the videos we
provide later, use the help in ioGAS, or catch
up in between the days
 NickO and
NickC are here.
All times in our
schedule will
be in AEST
(GMT+10)

You are somewhere here

Getting a head-start for ioGAS novices
• On Monday (Sunday in Americas), we will at least try to get everyone
to try to download the dataset from Excel; the main purpose being to
see if everyone has ioGAS running OK, and to check on the Zoom, and
audio-visual etc.
• We strongly recommend you commence this workshop by reading
this introduction and loading up the first ioGAS dataset (Prac A), that
way we can advance quickly on Monday and Tuesday. At the very
least you should complete the steps shown in slides 7 to 11 before we
start on Tuesday with the formal part of Practical A
• For more advanced ioGAS users, it will only take a few minutes to get
though this data load up
Day 1 Monday 20 July 1100 AEST, checkup on Zoom, everyone has ioGAS working OK, and
have downloaded the Prac A datasets and instructions. Hopefully less than one hour. Load
up Prac A into ioGAS if you haven’t already.

Day 2 Tues 21 July

1100 to 1145: Introduction to geochemistry and ioGAS; brief view of overall workflow
aspect of ioGAS interface
1145 to 1230: Basic QAQC, data types, questions to ask before starting
1230-1245: break and Q/A
1245 – 1345: commence simple ioGAS assessment, of the soils dataset from Mount Isa
(Prac A). Fundamental tools and hands-on ‘how-to’
1345 – 1400: set some exploratory ioGAS tasks for the group; includes setting up Practical B
in new ioGAS project file
1400: for maybe 20 minutes if needed: Q&A session
Day 3 Weds 22
1100 – 1130, using same Prac A (Mount Isa) dataset, review some examples of products that people
generated on previous day. Questions and Answers (Q&A). Explore the Home and Data toolbars in
some depth, full explanation of the way to use the Attribute Manager. Comparison of these to
geophysical images and/or airphotos to sum up the soils data for the Mount Isa region.

1130 to 1145, How merging data can be done to generate the best possible datasets that build
around the geochemistry
1145 to 1235 Commence Practical B, which has combined structural and geochemical data from a
part of the Sunrise Dam gold deposit in Western Australia
1235 to 1250 Break
1250 to 1340 Commence Practical C, which has combined density and geochemical data from a part
of the Rajapalot gold-cobalt system in Northern Finland.
1340 to 1400+: set homework tasks – completion of Pracs B and C, load up of Prac D (also Rajapalot
gold-cobalt system in Northern Finland). Q&A session
Day 4 Thursday July 23 (will be adjusted)

1100 – 1130: Review and Q&A on the Practicals B and C.

1130 to 1230: Introduction to primary concepts in advanced analysis tools in ioGAS – “Sorting the signal from
the noise”
1230 to 1245: Break
1245 to 1330: Towards a full workflow: Stepping from diagrams and mineral nodes to advanced analysis.
Demonstration of the more advanced tools in ioGAS (within the Prac D framework).
1330 to 1400: open session – Q&A and setup for a complex analysis of alteration and metal vectoring (Prac D)
(Note: Prac D has two components: one in which we do a ‘show-and-tell’ to cover as much ground as possible in the complex parts of the
ioGAS Analysis interface, and another, mostly on the final day of the course, in which you setup and progress right through a workflow).

Day 5 Friday July 24: (still work in progress, depends on how far we get on previous Days)
Full ioGAS workflow analysis with emphasis on metal distributions, hydrothermal alteration, full system
understanding, 3D patterns, and how these all relate to decisions during the evolution of a project

Q&A, discussion, wrap-up

Starting with ioGAS
The front page of ioGAS gives you this: open file – choose
.xlsx or all file types (the default is to look for .gas files).
Browse the IOGAS PluggedIn PracA
Empty columns will ask you this….. But here we don’t have
any empty columns (you will see this for other projects)

So then you will see……

… the column
properties
startup dialogue.
If you have ioGAS has a simple 3D
visualization mode, and
(Sometimes you need spatial data in x- can export 3D outputs to
to return to this page, 1 advanced 3D modelling
you can do this under y-z format, you packages (e.g. Leapfrog,
Data toolbar) need to select Surpac, Micromine). But it
depends on having xyz
these from your (east/north/RL or depth)
input data to do this. In
columns this case we are just using
2D data
3

2 Here they have clear names, sometimes

it may not be so clear (for 3D, collar and
survey information alone will not
produce 3D drill string plots)

Sometimes you may not care about

the grid projection (e.g. if always
using a mine grid), other times you
may have to look this projection up
(e.g. same as your GIS or 3D model)
It filled in the East and North automatically (it
doesn’t always, for example you might have x and
y in your inputs and have to allocate these to East
and North here). And we choose the projection as
shown. Here we are in MGA (GDA94) UTM zone 54

Because the x-y-z are used in

several different maps and
other outputs in ioGAS, they
are not really ‘data’, usually
axes, so here we need to select
“non-plot” and the dots will
change from blue to gray (see
next page). Maybe they should
have called this ‘plot axes’ or
something

Next we have to select ‘aliases’. This is your main

geochemical data – this is because these ‘aliases’
connect to a wide range of auto-plots and
mineral and rock compositions in ioGAS
After selecting “Guess Aliases”, the green
dots means the program now thinks it can
use this data to generate automated plots
– these are the ‘aliases’. You need to
carefully check all these, especially the
green ones, because sometimes this
process will assign the wrong column. For
example here ‘LE’ should remain as blue
numerical data, because ‘light elements’
are not part of the input to any auto-
diagrams etc in ioGAS. You also have the
option of reverting to the original name or
editing the name within this list.

All of the normal geochemical data should

ideally now be green. You need to check
this entire table. Also check the units –
you can often have mistakes in ppm vs
ppb, % etc. Nick Cook will show you how
to minimize the mistake potential within
the original excel file. The example here is
pretty ‘clean’.
Let’s make the decision to remove these pXRF
error data (we will discuss this). ioGAS will
also select columns for deletion if they are
empty, or duplicates of other column
(names). In this case manually select all these
+/- data so the red crosses appear solid
Then hit the OK button at the bottom and it will
usually ask you this – usually there will be
names not aliased, e.g. downhole depth,
sample name etc (not in this case).

Here it is asking us to confirm which data we

want to remove. Check this, then select Yes

Now you are ready to go!