| 11.30 – 13.00 | Session 6: Intelligent exploration – improving mine discovery efficiency | Sary Arka Hall 1 |
| · Going deep – use of 4th generation ground-scanning of geological structures.
· Mobile analytical geochemical laboratories – savings time and money of geological exploration. · Use of unmanned aerial vehicles in magnetic survey. · Present and future of satellite imaging in geological exploration. · Precision drilling – new technologies. · Increasing orebody value – bridging the gap between geology and metallurgy. |
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| Moderator: Che Osmond, Technical Director, Wardell Armstrong International Ltd | ||
| Presenters: | ||
| 11:30 | Modern Advances in Mineral Exploration – Leveraging Technology in the Discovery of New Deposits.
JAMES GILBERTSON, Principal Exploration Geologist, SRK Exploration Services |
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| 11:45 | Intelligent Exploration – Going Deeper with IP and EM
CHRIS NIND, Vice President – Business Development, Abitibi Geophysics / AGT / Nomad Geo Services |
| 12:00 | Geochemical Exploration for Buried Deposits. RUSSELL BIRRELL, Principal Geochemist, GLOBEX Solutions |
| 12:15 | Geometallurgy – Introduction to a cross-discipline approach to mineral project evaluation.
Che Osmond, Technical Director, Wardell Armstrong International Ltd |
| 12:30 | Examples of the use of Geotech airborne geophysical technologies in the exploration and study of various mineral deposits.
Timur Karsenov, Deputy director, “KazGeoTech” LLP |
| 12:45 | Forecasting of sulphide mineralisation based on the results of electromagnetic sensing and induced polarisation
Yuri Davydenko, CEO, Gelios |