SAMREC/SAMVAL Companion Volume Conference 2016

Z* (Sean and Andy) co-authored a paper with De Beers for the SAMREC Companion Volume Conference that was held in Johannesburg on the 17th and 18th of May. The conference was well supported by the mining fraternity with representation from gold, diamonds, gemstones,...

DatamineTM Africa Conference

During May Cuan attended the DatamineTM Africa Conference which was held over three days at Misty Hills outside Johannesburg. The presentations included topics such as dealing with outlier, uniform conditioning, stratified orebody modelling and sampling. The focus of...

SEG Estimation Course

Just before the start of the 2016 Mining Indaba in Cape Town Z* presented a one day introductory course on mineral resource estimation. Sean presented the workshop which was held under the auspices of the American Society of Economic Geologists and UCT. The event took...

JANUARY 2014: ONGOING EDUCATION

Congratulations to Cuan Lohrentz who successfully completed the Citation Course on Applied Geostatistics during 2013. The course was presented by Professor Clayton Deutsch of the University of Alberta. Cuan’s view: “The citation course provides a great understanding...

Introductory courses in mineral resource estimation for graduates

Following the success of the introductory course on mineral resource estimation presented to geology honours students at Stellenbosch University in 2012 a similar course was presented to the UCT honours group in January 2013. This year the Stellenbosch course is...

Z* Presents A Course At Stellenbosch University

In June this year Z* presented a one week introductory course on mineral resource estimation to geology honours students at Stellenbosch University. The course is aimed at exposing students to mineral resource estimation and classification as well as introducing them...