Five Drill Rigs – Managing the process with MX Deposit, IMDEXHUB-IQ, Seequent Central, Leapfrog Edge and ioGAS Link

This presentation was recorded at PDAC 2020.

Overview

Video Transcript

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<v ->And what we want to give you is a demonstration</v>

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of some of the tools that Seequent uses

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and the tools that we use in our day-to-day business.

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So from the start of this year

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we’ve had five drill rigs going

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and now we’ve got two rigs going

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and we want to talk about the process,

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how we go and actually manage that.

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And hopefully live here will actually work.

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So if you see me run over to the bar,

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then you’ll know how it’s going but let’s see.

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So first up the tools that we are going to look at is

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Leapfrog and Leapfrog Central.

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And I don’t know if you know

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but now the dongles have been recently got rid of this year.

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So for us in a business that works around the world,

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we actually get 24 hours use of a single seat

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by being able to log out and somebody in Australia

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can log back into the same seat.

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So that’s a real bonus in terms of our view of the world,

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as long as you remember to log out.

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So here’s our upfront screen

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when we’re logged into the system.

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And you might see up there,

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it says it was updated on the third,

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which I think is actually today.

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So what we’re going to do for a start is we’re going to download

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the current file that was worked on

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during the last eight hours in Finland.

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And then we’ll come back to that.

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So first up, all we actually have to do,

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if we’re logged into the internet is double click on this

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and it will download the project.

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Now it downloads not all of the project

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because this project is actually a 1.4 gigabytes.

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And so it looks at the projects that I’ve already downloaded

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and will only up update what’s required.

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And you’ll see our staff in Finland has been very good

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down the right hand side and have written the metadata

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as to what we’ve actually done here

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on each update of the file.

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So it’s already at 19%.

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So what do we do on a daily basis?

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Well, we have five drill rigs going

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and they run 24 hours a day.

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And so the drill core gets delivered

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at around seven o’clock in the morning.

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And the guys come in and strangely for Australians,

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the first thing that happens is you unfreeze the drill core

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because learning about putting water on frozen drill core

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was the first experience for me in Finland.

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And we produce a quick log

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and it’s actually quite a simple quick log.

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We have just a few codes that we use,

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and that quick log is made just as a CSV file.

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And there’s a couple of real advantages with that.

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It’s easy to copy and paste

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and we run a simple little notion system

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to describe each hole and that allows us to compare the data

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around the world.

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Now the hole I’m largely talking about is,

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it’s called number 213,

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we had the last assay back at 2:00 a.m on Thursday morning,

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we published our press release on Friday and it includes,

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I think it’s 17.7 meters at 3.8 grams

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followed by another six meters at 9.2 grams of gold.

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And it was drilled around 100 meters or to 120 meters

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below the previous resource.

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So we’re happy about that side of the world.

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So we produce a quick log almost straight away.

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And the advantage with producing a quick log

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is that we can actually go straight into Leapfrog

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and we can go refresh on that CSV file.

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So five minutes after the quick log is finished,

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it goes in, updates the log in our Leapfrog project

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and we can see in 3D what’s going on with our drill holes,

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because that’s particularly important

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obviously when you’re trying to manage five drill rigs.

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So this is all being downloaded here.

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Now, our main logging system is called MX Deposit

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and David’s the guru over in the background there

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with an almost empty glass of beer.

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And we went and reviewed lots of different systems

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when we went to this and we actually liked this

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because of the flexibility in design.

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And we have all sorts of our own survey sheets

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from standard header sheets here.

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When you log the samples, put in all the notes

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and reproduce an Excel file

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that then goes straight for the lab.

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We have alteration, key minerals,

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and all of those things can be exported straight out of here

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and used very quickly within Leapfrog.

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Now, to give you an idea,

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so here’s our sample results column.

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And if I just go regional,

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that will get rid of that filter,

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will get rid of some of the other material,

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some of the other…

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To go to the far side to gold.

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So I might scroll down here

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and see if I can find some gold in this drill hole.

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So that for example is a set of assays.

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Now, we received the lab sheets back

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and it took me two minutes to match it up in the database.

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So one of the key things that people such as me

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find very useful is if I get the samples

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during the middle of the night

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when the Finnish guys aren’t working,

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I can load the assays straight in here, check for fails,

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and within minutes I have all the data in the system

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ready for use elsewhere.

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So this side of the business has been particularly good.

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And now we’re moving towards time

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where we’re actually going to start collecting different data

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on our drill holes,

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including hydrogeology and things like that.

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So we will simply make another table here within this

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that will record hydrogeological details

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for the drill holes.

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So being able to build the sort of system you want

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and assign color charts is particularly useful.

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So these guys, they won’t be logging now

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because it’ll be middle of the night,

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but I could be logged in here and you can see them

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actually writing the logs live on the system

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in our core shed.

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So lots of flexibility,

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we really like this part of the system.

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Here we go, Leapfrog here is,

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over here you will see it says version two,

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so we can open up the project file.

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So we all want to be able to control the drilling

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and make sure we know where we’re going.

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Now, one key thing that isn’t related to Seequent

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is we actually use this PAL 1000 technique,

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which takes a kilo sample for our gold

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rather than fire assay.

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So that kilos sample goes into a pot

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with oxidizing agent with cyanide and steel balls,

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rolls around for now and then gets a flame AIS.

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And we typically get a five day turnaround

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on our gold assays, far cheaper than fire assay.

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And that of course is exceedingly useful

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when you’ve got madly going with five drill rigs

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because you don’t often see the gold

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and it really helps to control

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on where you’re actually going.

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So when you see us start producing results

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that are a week after the drill hole

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or two weeks after the drill hole,

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that’s because we have that sort of capability

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with the lab just a couple of kilometers

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or 200 kilometers down the road.

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So here we have two big files,

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so it’ll take a little while to open up

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but the thing about doing a quick log and having a system

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such as this, I haven’t actually seen

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how this was going to open up because it’s a brand new file.

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So bear with me a sec.

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I push D and those look like gold intersections.

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Okay, we’ll check the, yes.

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So this, you will see over on the right hand side here,

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this says ranked SI export.

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So what we’ve actually done with that David from MX

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is design our own priority lists for exporting data.

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So if we have a fire assay that would get priority

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over a different gold technique,

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or if we have ICP EMS for acid digest,

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that might have a greater degree of certainty

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over another method.

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So when we export the data,

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we just get one set of data per element,

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which is particularly useful because it saves you

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going through marking around with all the columns.

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Now, if I was going to update the quick log,

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go over to the right here,

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I would simply go to the right

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and push the right hand button here and go, if I can see it.

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Reload data and that would go to the same quick log file

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that the guys use.

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So as soon as they’ve finished the CSV file,

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somebody can push that

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and straight away the same color tables get applied.

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So we have that 3D data available to us immediately.

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And as soon as the guys upload the project,

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I get to see it in Australia when I wake up

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or they go to sleep, whichever.

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So this whole integration across the system

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and across the platforms has been really useful.

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Now in the background of course,

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there’s other parts to the system,

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including the Central browser.

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Now we started the season with drilling

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a nearly 900 meter hole from…

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We had a restricted area and we drilled from outside

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and we use directional drilling.

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Now we put down the Reflex IQ sprint tool.

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And the advantage from that with five rigs

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and two different companies is that

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we actually rented the tool

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and it was shared across all the companies.

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And that tool basically comes straight out,

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is matched with Bluetooth, with the data in the IMDEX Hub.

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And as soon as you approve it, you can load that across

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to the browser, to the Central browser here.

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And the advantage with that is,

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and you can see the bends, for example in this hole here.

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And so we would get the survey data,

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it will be uploaded straight away,

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and we could straight away work out

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what to do with the drill hole.

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Now, geologists are often kidding themselves

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as to actually knowing where the mineralization is,

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but we at least did have a target where we were aiming for.

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And so we were heading down to what is essentially

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the extensions of the mineralization at this prospect here.

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Now, this is just the quick logs in here

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with a couple of drill holes,

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but the advantage with Central

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is you can make that as simple as possible.

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So if you want to see stuff straight away and quickly online

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while the drilling is going on

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and while the surveying is going on,

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it’s much, much easier to control.

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So going back here, we have for example, our resource area,

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these are resource blocks that were in

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from the 2018 resource.

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And what we’ve been trying to do is extend the drilling

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basically down plunge

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and pretty much double the size of the resource.

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And this tool, Leapfrog has been absolutely fantastic

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for basically how we operate.

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We are now at the stage of going back to all the data

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and going back to build our 3D model

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and update the resources.

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So we will be handing to our resource people,

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who are external consultants, a 3D model of what we expect

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the geology to look like and what we expect

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the gold distribution to look like.

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And one thing about this and having Edge

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and the other tools in here is we can actually do it

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all ourselves because I don’t think anybody

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sort of trust the situation where you just hand over

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all the data to a resource consultant and expect them

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to get it right without geological input.

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And one of the key things here is that

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we’ve been able to do this.

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Now, in many ways I’m a traditional geologists,

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so having all these flashed stuff on a computer

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is not really how I work,

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because if you look at my notebook

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there’s a lot of hand drawn sections

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and we actually liked drawing sections by hand.

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So we really encourage our staff still to do some of that,

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to build the section and to think about them

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but then we scan them and actually put them

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into the system here.

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So we have lots and lots of hand-drawn system stuff in here

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to just check how we’re going in terms of,

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I suppose a sense of realism for the geology in the system.

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Other things you can do in these tools are to,

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for example, if anybody here is a fan of this geochemistry,

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where are we?

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There’s ioGas, you can for example get data out of…

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How many people here use ioGas?

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So Dave, Laurie and the guys at IMDEX, Reflex,

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whatever you want to call them,

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have built what I consider the best geochemical tool

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in the business.

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And the real plus with this is you can think about

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what minerals you are seeing.

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You can build the geochemistry,

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you can circle the populations

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and that’s all very well because,

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so what, you don’t really care

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if dots are green or blue or anything.

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But the thing we do all the time

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is having created that dataset,

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we actually export it back into our 3D model.

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So we’ll export our ioGas

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and there is a link that allows you to do that live.

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Maybe we’re too cheap and we don’t want to pay for that link

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because it only takes us a few seconds to do it manually,

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but we export that data out

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and produce three dimensional models

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on our theoretical geochemistry.

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So we might have a tool, for example,

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that picks the reduced horizon in our Seequent,

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which is critical for the gold mineralization.

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It takes us about two minutes to export that data

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out of ioGas and to put it straight into Leapfrog.

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And from there you have tools

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where you can actually start comparing it

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and build 3D models from that data.

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So I suppose that’s the story in a nutshell.

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So at the moment, we are excited in showing

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our dual core over there.

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We’ve got about 2000 meters to go.

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I’m not sure whether it’s going to be

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our most successful season, but in faint terms

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we’ve putting in 30 kilometers of drilling

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since we upgraded our resource

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when we produced our first resource in December, 2018

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and we’re looking to double it or more,

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but let’s see how we go with the modeling

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in the next short while.

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So if you’ve got questions of me

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about how we use it practically,

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or the Seequent guys and MX and the Reflex guys,

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there’s Christian here from IMDEX or Reflex,

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or one of those names,

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AMC, depending on what day it is.

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By all means, ask them how will these tools integrate

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because it has made our life, I suppose, predictable

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and much easier in terms of operation and really allows us

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to not spend too much drilling in the wrong place

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because we can see the 3D controls

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on the gold mineralization.

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So, beer or any questions?

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One of the two, thank you.

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(applauding)