The business of minerals exploration clearly needs change, our probability of success in Greenfields environments is less than 1%. Of course there are many factors impacting that but one of them is that at the moment geologists, whether in the office or standing at the rig are forced to make critical decisions without much of the data they need. If at the rig, they can see and touch the rocks but they often don’t have any access to robust quantitative information on the properties of the rock or indeed the direction the drill hole has gone.
Furthering this challenge, increasingly the geologist at the rig might not be the final decision maker, that person may be in an office hundreds of kilometeres away. As a result decisions to stop a hole or change the next hole get made poorly or don’t get made at all – geologists just revert to plan. What do geologists need to change this? Reliable data delivered with a secure chain of custody made available to them wherever they are, whenever they need it.