Interestingly Ken, although lots of technology was discussed at the AMIRA Exploration Managers Conference, nearly half the discussion on the last day was about people - skill sets, training, mentoring, encouraging change and adoption of new technologies, etc. So you're very right, Ken, just making new technology available is not the answer. Getting it used, and used correctly, and integrated with workflows is the important part.
Cheers, Chris From: SEGMIN [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Witherly via SEGMIN Sent: Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:47 To: [email protected] Cc: Ken Witherly Subject: [SEGMIN] Where we are? View from Down Under Dear Colleagues- The world's chronicler of exploration performance, Richard Schodde, has produced another "score card", done as part of the latest AMIRA 12th Biennial Exploration Managers Conference held last March. As normal, Schodde deals mainly with the "what" and not the "why" of the situation, leaving his audience to apply their assessment of what the figures actually means. I have attached one figure from his presentation which shows a summary of exploration techniques which resulted in making what Schodde terms the 'project' scale decision; this he considers the reason as to where claims are first staked. The next scale down is the prospect , which considers the techniques used to make the first drilling decision. While drill targeting is important, we need to consider the project selection phase as arguably critical, especially when overall discovery rates are declining as Schodde outlines. The most important factor in project generation is identified by Schodde as working around areas with know mineralization; clearly an easy and seemingly safe approach but one which is increasingly yielding few and few outcomes of importance. Schodde's PPT is available at: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/RGd2en7bJU<https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/RGd2en7bJU> The AMIRA meeting is summarized on LinkedIn: Day 1-https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amira-internationals-12th-biennial-exploration-managers-joe-cucuzza/<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amira-internationals-12th-biennial-exploration-managers-joe-cucuzza/> Day 2-https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amira-internationals-12th-biennial-exploration-managers-adele-seymon/<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amira-internationals-12th-biennial-exploration-managers-adele-seymon/> Lots of technology is discussed. But as the last 30 years has shown, a steady stream of new technology does not appear to make a measurable impact on discovery rates. There seems to be a message there; anyone listening? Ken [cid:[email protected]] [cid:[email protected]] 2019-Condor's 20th Anniversary Condor Consulting, Inc St 150 2201 Kipling St Lakewood CO 80215 USA T: 303-423-8475 Condor North Consulting St 1112 1030 West Georgia St Vancouver BC V6E 2Y3 T: 604-630-8334 E: [email protected] C: 303-520-5732 Skype-ken.witherly1 www.condorconsult.com<http://www.condorconsult.com>
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