Process Innovation

When gold doesn’t follow the rules, machine learning finds the clues and a folded dome reveals why your domains were lying to you all along

At the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, geologist Jordan McDivitt delivered a sharp, technically grounded presentation on how machine learning and structural geology can work hand in hand to model complexity in orogenic gold systems.

Turning brain scars into probability maps shows how geostatistics can save lives and improve resource models alike

In a keynote that seamlessly blended personal narrative with professional mastery, Mo Srivastava—resource estimation consultant and co-author of the widely used An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics—stood before the audience at the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth and delivered what may be remembered as one of the most interdisciplinary and thought-provoking presentations of the event.

Kriging is cheating, the best estimate is a myth, and it's time resource modellers embraced uncertainty to do it right—and ethically

In a rousing keynote at AusIMM’s 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference, Dr Clayton Deutsch—director and professor at the School of Mining Engineering, University of Alberta—challenged the audience to confront a fundamental flaw in how mineral resource estimators approach their craft.

Less clicking, more thinking: Why the future of resource estimation is probabilistic, Pythonic—and still needs a geologist’s gut

At the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, a standout panel of industry leaders took the stage to discuss a question at the core of the discipline: where is resource modelling heading, and how should practitioners prepare? The answers revealed a field in transition—balancing powerful new tools with enduring geological fundamentals.