IX International Scientific-Practical Conference ‘Subsoil Use in Ukraine. Prospects for Investment ’
On 8-10 October, Lviv hosted the annual conference ‘Subsoil Use in Ukraine. Prospects for Investment’, which was attended by over 300 experts from the exploration and mining industries of Ukraine. The conference presented over 85 presentations on reforming the subsoil use sector, mineral resources management, including critical ones, investment potential of Ukraine’s mineral raw materials base, methods and practices of geological and economic assessment of mineral deposits, etc.
Nina Safronova’s presentation ‘Innovative Micromine Tools for Geological and Economic Assessment of Mineral Deposits’ highlighted the importance of the latest tools at each stage of geological and economic assessment of mineral deposits, including:
- – collection and analysis of historical geological exploration data;
- – geological exploration – drill hole design, field geological data collection, quality assurance and quality control analysis (QA/QC);
- – geological structure investigation – wireframe, implicit and stratigraphic modelling;
- – mineral resource estimation – statistical and geostatistical analysis, block modelling, interpolation, resource reporting and verification of modelling results;
- – feasibility study – resource optimisation, mining design and planning.
Nataliia Bariatska’s presentation ‘Artificial Intelligence for Mineral Resource Estimation’ focused on the chronology of artificial intelligence development and the key areas of application for geological exploration and mining. Examples of categorical (lithological) and numerical (resource) block modelling using the innovative Micromine Grade Copilot tool are provided. A comparison of the results of resource estimation using machine learning and neural networks with those of geologists demonstrated the ability of artificial intelligence to generalise the expert experience and reproduce it for similar tasks.
Watch the full recording of the conference here.