Geological data interpretation at the stage of operational exploration of gold-bearing ore deposits

Increasingly more ore deposits with complex structure are being entered in commercial development at the moment. In this connection and in view of the advanced technology and equipment available for information acquisition in the recent decades, new methods are required for interpretation of geological data. The operational exploration results acquire higher importance in handling problems connected with cost-saving in mineral mining and processing towards efficient subsoil management. At some deposits, it is possible to introduce indirect methods of geological information acquisition. The differences in properties of mineral formations, determined during preparative processes before mining, allow adjustment of boundaries of ore bodies as well as assessment of their structure and composition. For instance, the dedicated hardware/software systems collect data during drilling-and-blasting and, based on the differences in physical and mechanical properties of rocks, identify the boundaries of lithological varieties. This allows adjustment of ore body boundaries. A geological environment is an extremely complex system formed under the influence of numerous factors of different nature. Thus, interpretation of the primary information is one of the top-priority tasks, and the quality of this task solution governs both accuracy and reliability of modeling, and the overall performance of a mine. Many current methods of geological data interpretation neglect the structural features and composition of rock masses. R&D results obtained by the authors allow adjustment of ore body boundaries under difficult geological conditions based on statistical processing of data obtained in the course of drilling-and-blasting. Specification of the geological model, in its turn, can be of assistance in design of more effective systems of sampling during operational exploration and, thereby, in reduction in total cost of production per unit product.

Keywords: mining, geological support of subsoil use, statistics, data processing, operational exploration, blast holes, data rating, ore body.
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Smirnov P. A., Vorotyntseva I. A., Barabanov N. N., Lagutina A. A., Lozhkin M. O. Geological data interpretation at the stage of operational exploration of goldbearing ore deposits. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2021;(7):29-41. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2021_7_0_29.

Acknowledgements:
Issue number: 7
Year: 2021
Page number: 29-41
ISBN: 0236-1493
UDK: 550.8.053
DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2021_7_0_29
Article receipt date: 27.05.2020
Date of review receipt: 02.07.2020
Date of the editorial board′s decision on the article′s publishing: 10.06.2021
About authors:

P.A. Smirnov1, Graduate Student, Technical Support Engineer, Orika CIS JSC, 125315, Moscow, Russia,
I.A. Vorotyntseva1, Graduate Student, e-mail: irina.vorot@yandex.ru,
N.N. Barabanov1, Graduate Student,
A.A. Lagutina1, Graduate Student,
M.O. Lozhkin1, Graduate Student,
1 National University of Science and Technology «MISiS», 119049, Moscow, Russia.

 

For contacts:

I.A. Vorotyntseva, e-mail: irina.vorot@yandex.ru.

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