geostatistics
Henry Dillon, Global Customer Success Manager - Geoscience at Maptek, used his time on stage at APCOM2025 in Perth to challenge one of the industry’s most entrenched habits - treating resource models as static snapshots.
For decades, mine planning has leaned heavily on deterministic models - tools that simplify the earth into a single version of the truth.
At this year’s AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference (MREC2025) in Perth, one presentation stood out not just for its rigour, but for its challenge to long-standing assumptions in resource modelling.
In a bold shift from business-as-usual block modelling, a team of geologists has turned their attention to the part of the orebody most often ignored — waste — and what they’ve uncovered could reshape how mining operations plan for ESG risk.
When Laércio Bertossi took to the stage at AusIMM’s 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, he didn’t unveil a new machine learning model or simulation breakthrough.
What if resource estimation wasn’t just updated, but completely reimagined? At the AusIMM 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, two respected voices in the field—Jacqui Coombes and Paul Hodkiewicz—stepped away from PowerPoint slides and into a candid, thought-provoking dialogue that challenged the mining industry to rethink its most foundational assumptions.
At a time when the mining industry is grappling with increasingly complex ore bodies, evolving digital toolsets, and growing demand for speed and precision, one standout case study is helping reshape how we think about resource modelling.
At the AusIMM 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference, Dr Oscar Rondon, principal geostatistician at Datamine, tackled a question that has dogged mining professionals for decades: Is estimating recoverable resources still hopeless?
The talk revisited a decades-old challenge in resource estimation, combining Rondon’s clear communication with Assibey-Bonsu’s extensive experience in the mining industry.
In a standout session at the AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference, six of the industry’s most experienced and outspoken minds came together for a dynamic panel discussion titled “Myth-Busting.
Southern Cross Gold is rapidly redefining the prospectivity of Victoria’s goldfields, with its flagship Sunday Creek project now recognised as one of the highest-grade, undeveloped gold-antimony deposits globally.
