WB ORE TYPE DETERMINATION

STRUCTURE INTENSITY
-Air Photo interpretation
-Landform
Method
-Lineament
-BOULDER SIZE
-Core physical properties
-RQD
-FRACTURE DENSITY
-WEATHERING

ORE TYPE

Mine Planning Design

Equipments
Mining recovery
Grade Control

Disadvantages ; - 100 m spacing core drilling.

- Not enough penetration into “ real “ bedrock.
Rock type Determination
 Outlining Ore Type of WB from Coring Data

Air Photo Core Logging Rec Dry Ore/ Wet Insitu

-Lineament Interp. -Boulder size
-Morphology/topography -Fracture density
-Serp. Degree
-Core Photo
Outlining by GIS
Outlining by GIS Outlining by GIS

Compilation
Weight of evidence Method

Final Map

Grade Control MRI Mine Planning

 Boulder Density

Boulder density is calculating percentage of length of boulder

> 1 meter divides total length of boulder in 1 hole in saprolite
zone per hole from logging data and photo core.

% Boulder = Length of boulder > 1m x 100 %

Total length of boulder in 1 hole

The classified of rock type from Boulder density are:

-                     0 – 25 % = Fractured area (Type 3)
-                    25 – 50 % = Medium fractured area (Type 2)
-                    50 – 75 % = Type 1
- 75 – 100 % = Unfractured Area (Type 1)
 Rock Quality Designation (RQD)
This based on the percentage of core recovered,
counting only the pieces of intact core 10 cm or
longer.
RQD =  Length of core pieces > 10 cm length x 100
Total length of core

RQD % Quality
0 – 25 Very Poor
25 – 50 Poor
50 – 75 Fair
75 – 90 Good
90 – 100 Excellent
 Example :
Total length drilled = 100 cm
Total core recovered : 80 cm
Core recovery =80/100 = 80%
Summed core lengths greater than 10 cm =75 cm
RQD = 75/100 = 75 %

RQD for sample in photograph below = ((85/100)+(85/100)+(70/100)+(50/100)+(90/100))/ 5 = 76 %

Sample identified as Type 1

25cm 30 cm 20 cm 15 cm

50 cm

20 cm 15 cm
35 cm

15 cm 15 cm 35 cm 20 cm

40 cm 30 cm 15 cm

Only coherent fresh rock is considered ; a length of soft and highly weathered core
Would have zero RQD value. RQD can be recorded by geologists while they are logging
in the sample house.
 Descriptive indices of iscontinuities (Comment RQD)
Consideration should be given to type, number of discontinuities, location
and orientation, frequency of spacing between discontinuities, separation
or aperture of discontinuity Surfaces, persistence and extent, infilling and
nature of the surface

Sound RQD Rock material has no joints or cracks, size range > 100 cm

Fissured RQD Rock material has random joints. Cores break along these
joints. Lightly broken. Size range 30 – 100 cm

Jointed RQD Rock material consists of intact rock fragments separated

from each other by joints. Broken.Size range 10 – 30 cm.

Fractured RQD Rock fragment separated by very close joints. Core lengths
< twice NX core diameter. Very broken. Size range 2.5 – 10 cm.

Shattered RQD Rock material is of gravel size or smaller. Extremely Broken.

Size range < 2.5 cm.
 Fracture Density

Fracture density is calculating percentage of summary joint

and fracture divides total length of core

Frac. Dens =  Joint and fracture x 100

Total length of core
 RQD & Fract Density For Type 1 Area (Watulabu, Delaney, Manggali),
Medium Fractured (Pongsesa) and Highly Fractured (Manggali SW)

45
Highly fractured Area
(Type 3)
40 RQD 0 - 25,
Fract Dens >15
Med Fract Area
35 (Type 2)
Fract Density /m

268 Datas
RQD 25 - 50
30 Fract dens 10 - 15

25
Type 1 Type 1
RQD>50, Fract dens <10
Pongsesa
20 Unfractured Area
(Type 1) Manggali SW
15 RQD>75, Fract dens
<=5

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100

RQD / m