https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Geovariances launches new resource estimation software program

NEW SOFTWARE PROGRAM
Minestis provides for geological domain modelling and resource estimation through a geostatistics-based workflow

NEW SOFTWARE PROGRAM Minestis provides for geological domain modelling and resource estimation through a geostatistics-based workflow

18th September 2015

By: Ilan Solomons

Creamer Media Staff Writer

  

Font size: - +

Software developer and reseller Geovariances launched its new easy-to-use software package for mineral resource estimation, Minestis, at a seminar in Johannesburg last month.

Minestis provides for geological domain modelling and resource estimation through a geostatistics-based workflow.

It has been designed for geologists, mining engineers and auditors, all who require quick production of quality models, explained Geovariances resource evaluation consultant Christophe Bessin at the event.

He said that Minestis provides the geostatistics needed for reliable domain and resource modelling through a simplified and secure approach.

“It makes the recommended resource evaluation techniques, such as uniform conditioning or conditional simulations, easy to implement by nonexperts in geostatistics,” Bessin pointed out.

He said Minestis provided a workflow that took the user through every step of its resource modelling project.

The software starts with the loading of already built grade shells or geological surfaces and verifies that geological domains are coherent with each other. It continues with a geostatistics-based estimation process, which provides users access to the only parameters they need to control through a smart user interface.

“It quickly ends up with the production of the recoverable resource figures required for subsequent resource classification,” Bessin pointed out.

Minestis implements parallelised geostatistical algorithms, such as kriging, conditional simulations, uniform conditioning and localised uniform conditioning.

Additional tools such as automatic variogram fitting or kriging neighbourhood analysis, combined with a modern interface, facilitate software use and parameter setting.

Bessin stated that early users of the program also reported that Minestis was “fast and visual”.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

Article Enquiry

Email Article

Save Article

Feedback

To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here

Showroom

EKATO Africa
EKATO Africa

Established in 1933, EKATO is the world leader in agitation technology, supplying agitators for processes and applications such as chemicals and...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Multotec
Multotec

Multotec, recognised industry leaders in metallurgy and process engineering help mining houses across the world process minerals more efficiently,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







301

sq:0.044 0.918s - 122pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now