Better roughly right than smoothly wrong? Dr Marcelo Godoy urges miners to ditch comfort models and embrace uncertainty for real planning power

AngloGold Ashanti’s CTO Dr Marcelo Godoy called for a shift from deterministic models to stochastic mine planning, urging the industry to treat uncertainty as a strategic asset.
Jamie Wade
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Content By Jamie Wade on May 10, 2025
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At the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, AngloGold Ashanti's Chief Technology Officer, Dr Marcelo...

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