EIT RawMaterials Exploration workshop 2018

The improved success rate for the mineral exploration industry requires improved models of the subsurface. A better understanding of the geology and geological models reduces the exploration risk by focusing investments to address outstanding questions or missing data that matter the most and, ultimately, support decision making.

Employing a Mineral Systems approach requires that many kinds of data are captured, compiled and visualized in 3D, including geophysical data (e.g. magnetics, EM, gravity, radiometric and seismic), geological maps, outcrop data, structural data, geochronology, borehole logs, structural models, geological models, mineralogy, alteration mineral assemblages, metamorphic mineral assemblages, spanning scales of observations from micrometer to kilometers laterally and vertically. This, in turn, requires a methodology and software development that can handle both the data capture and visualization with constraints that are determined from e.g. analogue studies etc.

This Mineral Systems concept, integrating geodata at a range of scales, has been around for more than two decades, and meanwhile, the bodies of available geodata for many countries have grown, yet this has not resulted in a significant increase in discovery rates.

Therefore, the workshop will seek to define which missing data is crucial for a given exploration model and assess how to make the most use of available geodata. The workshop starts by setting the scene for mineral exploration as an industry and will then go on to discuss new initiatives under the EIT RawMaterials Innovation Community. The second day will mainly concentrate on discussing the role of remote sensing data – primarily geophysics and how such data can be integrated into the geological model that, in turn, defines the basis for the exploration rationale and the quality of which defines the success rate.

Style: plenary presentation sessions with time for discussions and separate networking opportunities. Informal style.

Workshop Committee

Responsible for organising the workshop including the content

• Tony Hand, EIT RawMaterials
• Per Storm EIT RawMaterials
• Morten Rolsted, Henrik Morgen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
• Stefan Bernstein, Diogo Rosa, Bjørn Heincke, Marianne Vestergaard, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

For the event programme and registration please follow the link.