Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro
News and information from the world of geology and mining, Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro provides a new perspective on the mining industry and seeks to educate on best practice.
Snowden Optiro is a resources consulting and advisory group that provides independent advice, consulting and training to mining and exploration companies, their advisors and investors.
We help mine developers to advance their projects, mining companies to improve their operations and their professionals, and investors to derisk their investments by the provision of quality advice, training and software in the field of Mineral Resources and Mineral/Ore Reserves.
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Snowden Optiro Mining Advisory Consulting, Software and Training.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 125
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
5 - Reconciliation
Getting reconciliation wrong can lead to dire consequences for miners. Mine reconciliation is the practice of comparing the tonnage and grade of material processed by the mill with the tonnage and gr…
4 - Politics and Ideology of Resource Estimation (part 2)
Mineral resource estimation produces a model of deposits for extraction and is made up of various complex processes. In part two of this two-part series, Optiro's Director of Geology Ian Glacken disc…
3 - Politics and Ideology of Resource Estimation (part 1)
Mineral resource estimation produces a model of deposits for extraction and is made up of various complex processes. In part one of this two-part series, Optiro's Director of Geology Ian Glacken disc…
2 - Reasonable Prospects of Eventual Economic Extraction
Reporting the right information to investors is critical. The three main codes around the world that govern resource estimation and reporting to the market all contain references to RPEEE, or Reasona…
1 - Top Cuts
When you're creating a resource estimate you need to be sure that you haven't relied on outlier samples. Top cutting (or capping) is a method you can use to reduce the impact of individual samples an…