Applied Geostatistics:
Resource Estimation and Business Risk Implications
3 Day Professional Development Course
Course Leader: John Vann
Objectives of the Course
This course is an introductory or refresher resource estimation course for mining industry
professionals. Although the framework of the course is to present the geostatistical approach, nongeostatistical methods are fully explained. This three-day course is sharply focused on concepts and
(especially) the connection between characterisation and management of resource risk and improved
business decision making, in the context of the value chain. Participants will discuss problems of
interest and assess the relevance of alternate techniques to their situations. Time will be allowed for
participant questions and group discussions.
Who Should Attend?
This program is suitable for geologists, mining engineers, and metallurgists either involved in
resource and reserve evaluation or requiring a sound understanding in order to either manage such a
process, use the outputs or provide data inputs.
Program
Day 1 Fundamentals •
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Day 2 Spatial Variation •
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Day 3 Domaining and Stationarity Building Geological Models Variograms and Variography Block Size, Drill Spacing, Kriging •
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Introduction & Framework Overview of Resource Estimation Crash Course on Sampling Statistical Primer Block Size, Support and Selectivity Estimation Variance and Drill Spacing Kriging Beyond Kriging A full set of PowerPoint slides will be provided to each participant. Additional reference materials
will also be provided electronically.
Course Leader: John Vann
John Vann is a geologist and geostatistician with over 20 years experience most mineral
commodities (including precious metals, copper, lead, zinc, iron, coal, manganese, bauxite, uranium,
mineral sands, nickel and tin). John has an international reputation as a teacher of geostatistics and
resource evaluation, having taught over 150 short courses and seminars on resource estimation,
geostatistics, sampling and risk topics since 1993 in Australia, the USA, Canada, Chile, South Africa,
UK, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Laos and PNG. He is a Director of QG and holds degrees in geology from
RMIT and the University of New England and geostatistics from the University of Leeds. John is
Adjunct Professor of Geology at UWA, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Geostatistics at the University of
Adelaide and was a member of the JORC Committee for 11 years. Since 2006, John also has taught
10 advanced programs for senior Rio Tinto personnel in Australia, Africa and North America as
invited faculty for Duke Corporate Education, NC, USA.
In addition to public courses in Australia, the UK, the USA and Canada in past years, John has run
many in-house courses, some recent examples are listed below:
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December, 2008 – Applied Geostatistics for Porphyry Systems – Resource Estimation and
Business Risk Implications – Rio Tinto Andes Exploration Group, Santiago, Chile
August 2008 – Applied Geostatistics for Geologists and Engineers – Resolution Copper
Company – Arizona, USA
July 2008 – Applied Geostatistics for Mining and Exploration Geologists – Goldfields, St.
Ives Gold –– Kambalda, Western Australia
June 2008 – Geometallurgical Modelling Workshop Course – BHP Billiton, Adelaide, South
Australia
May 2008 - Applied Geostatistics for Mining Geologists – BHP Billiton, Olympic Dam Mine,
South Australia
May 2008 – Sampling and Resource Evaluation – Oxiana Ltd. (now Oz Minerals) – Perth,
Western Australia.
March 2008 – Applied Geostatistics for Coal Geologists and Mining Engineers – Anglo Coal,
Brisbane, Queensland
February 2008 - Sampling and Resource Evaluation – Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Perth, Western
Australia.
Participant Feedback
Participants are invited to provide feedback and rate the performance for every QG course.
We use a 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) rating system to evaluate the quality, relevance and clarity of our
programs.
The Applied Geostatistics program received an overall rating of 4.8 in its last session. Some of the
participant feedback includes:
“Course content was exactly what I was looking for and was presented clearly and concisely. John
Vann was one of the best course presenters that I have ever seen”.
“Brilliant! It was good to go off on asides and discuss work-relevant issues freely. I was pleasantly
surprised by this course as I wasn't sure what to expect. More mining engineers need to do this
course!!”
“Good introduction and understandable for someone who hasn't had any statistics training before the
course.”
“It was perfectly tailored to my needs, skills and interests. I could not improve on it”
“You have filled in the gaps and made me understand the ‘why’ of geostatistics! I will be using as
much of the training as possible to help my operation have a better and more understanding grade
control system.”
Further enquiries: info@qgroup.net.au and see also www.qgroup.net.au
QG Professional Development Programs 2009
Please complete and return to:
Donna Edwards, The AusIMM
PO Box 660, Carlton South, Victoria, Australia 3053
Telephone: +61 3 9658 6165; Facsimile: +61 3 9662 3662
Email: dedwards@ausimm.com.au
ABN 59 836 002 494
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REGISTRATION
FEE (Non
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REGISTRATION FEE
(AusIMM Members
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Perth, 26 – 27 March 2009
A$3,300
A$2,640
Sampling and Quality Management
Perth, 30 – 31 March 2009
A$3,300
A$2,640
Geostatistics, Resource Estimation and Risk
Perth, 1 – 3 April 2009
A$4,950
A$3,960
Geometallurgy and Modelling
Perth, 6 – 7 April 2009
A$3,300
A$2,640
Experimental Variograms and Variogram modelling
Perth, 6 April 2009
A$1,650
A$1,320
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