Abstract
In the mining industry, legacy hardcopy and digital exploration data are central to due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and are the basis for planning future exploration programmes. Alpha-numeric data may be checked algorithmically for consistency and obvious errors. This is essential, but misses the critical understanding and confirmation that comes from field validation, the re-collection of data and their rigorous use in (re)interpreting deposit geology. Data rescue and validation are precursors to data up-cycling with the over-arching aim being the construction of a 3D model matching geology and grades. This paper comments on todays’ trends in data management, using a recent case study where digital and non-digital data were used in combination with new techniques and technologies to identify the fourth-largest tungsten Resource (with JORC-code compliant announcement). This was achieved without direct drilling costs, making it perhaps one of the cheapest Resource announcements ever. Importantly, none of this could have been achieved by office-bound data inspection or translation.
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