What we deliver
We build a 3D model of your structure and model the distribution of grade within it. The controls for plunges and shoots are identified based on review of your data and consultation with your geology team. The result is a defensible, effective method for evaluating the critically-important higher grade portions of these systems. The best part is, it’s yours to keep and maintain. We show your team how to update the expand the model, and they’ll be set. If you need more support, we’re available for that too.
Our clients deliver results that impress technical due diligence teams and take them from “someone to watch” to “we want in”.
How it works
Veins and shear zone hosted deposits tend to form fairly continuous sheet-like bodies in 3D, but their grade is anything but simple.
The best practical published work on plunge and shoot formation and outlines a system of three levels of control (Hronsky, 2020):
- The overall deposit itself (the vein, in this case)
- The plunge level (usually steep, wider, and of consistently elevated grade relative to anomalous background)
- The shoot level (usually narrow, linear, and of bonanza grade relative to the rest of the structure)
These features have predictable, identifiable controls that you and your team have likely identified already. What your missing is to actually put that to work with a 3D model of what your grade is actually doing in the structure.
The reality is this is the oldest trick in the mining book, but for various reason I’d love to rant to you about, the big consultancies are afraid to do it or in many cases don’t know how. Come to the right place, get the thing you want.
What it looks like
