4/11/2021 What is Unfolding and When to Use It?

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Folded vs Unfolded Orebody Meshes and Composites

What is Unfolding and When to

Use It?
Yaohong D. Jiang Follow
Ph.D, CTO, ThreeDify Inc. 10 0 0

Unfolding, in the context of Geo or Resource Modeling, is a space transformation technique

that transforms composites and orebody meshes to a flattened space. Interpolation happens
in the flattened space, and the interpolated block attributes are then transformed back to the
original (folded) space. This technique is best suited for folded deposits where the orebody
was folded due to tectonic pressure after it had been deposited. Since attributes are assumed
to have existed prior to folding, interpolation in unfolded space would tend to result in a
more accurate resource estimate.
The above screenshot illustrate the concept where dark blue mesh represents the original
folded orebody mesh and the dark red mesh represents the unfolded orebody. The picture
also contains folded and unfolded composites with the legend for grade intervals.
Unfolding currently is available in the Ordinary Kriging and Inverse Distance Weighted
Interpolation methods in GeoMine-GeoModeler.

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