We’re excited to announce that the next major release of Supervisor is now available! Version 8.13 brings with it a long requested feature, Sequential Gaussian Simulation (SGS). We’ve worked closely with some of our users to test and develop this feature, and we’re delighted to make it available for commercial use today. Check out our YouTube account here to watch […]
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Interview Series: Oscar Rondon
Oscar is a Principal Geostatistician at Snowden, having worked at the company for over 6 years between roles. As one of our resident Experts, we wanted to introduce Oscar and help you get to know him. Q: Can you share a bit about you? As a skilled geostatistician and researcher with over 18 years of […]
Read moreLocal Topcut Transition Modelling – Improving estimates by “going local”
In addition to optimising search parameters Snowden’s Supervisor software now also provides a process that ensures areas supported by several higher grade samples are not unfairly overly downgraded by a global topcut. The traditional approach to resource estimation is to apply the same estimation parameters to each block and the same topcut to each sample within a […]
Read moreLKNO – An alternative approach to optimising estimation parameters.
Local Kriging Neighbourhood Optimisation (LKNO) is an alternative approach to optimising estimation parameters. The purpose of LKNO is to ensure that each block is estimated with the best possible combination of parameters presented. Block estimates are independent of one another and as such there is no reason to apply the same estimation parameters to each […]
Read moreAnnouncement: Monument Mining Ltd, 22 October 2018
Congratulations to Monument Mining Limited for announcing a Mineral Resource estimate for the Mengapur Cu-Au project in Malaysia. The NI43-101 Technical Report was prepared by Snowden and Principal Consultant, John Graindorge acted as a Qualified Person. Read the full announcement on the Monument Mining website.
Read moreAnnouncement: Podium Minerals, 16 October 2018
Congratulations to Podium Minerals Limited on announcing a maiden Mineral Resource for its Parks Reef project in Western Australia. The Mineral Resource was prepared by Snowden’s Principal Consultant, John Graindorge who acted as the Competent Person. Read the full announcement on the Podium Minerals website.
Read moreSupervisor v8.9.0.2 release
Snowden is pleased to announce the release of Supervisor (v8.9.0.2), which includes minor patches to a few known issues. We resolved the problem users were experiencing when attempting to change the displayed ‘units’ in some charts, also with the incorrect sorting of samples when running single block KNA. An issue with cross-validation has been resolved […]
Read moreSupervisor v8.9.0 release
The latest version of Supervisor (Version 8.9.0) is now available for users to download. In it we have included enhancements to the Contact Analysis feature making it easier to use and far nicer to look at! We’ve also built in more flexible licence management capability, so licence owners can match specific default behaviour for each […]
Read moreWhen should you stop Resource drilling?
When should you stop Resource drilling? Good question. Over the years, we have seen both sides of the spectrum: Those that don’t drill enough Those that drill too much Let’s consider some of the issues: Firstly, make sure that you are not drilling any material that has no potential to be economic (note that these […]
Read moreLatest Release of Supervisor v8.8
The latest version of Supervisor (Version 8.8) is now available and includes two new features, a contact analysis tool and rotation of model validation trend plots. Contact Analysis The new release includes a contact analysis tool which allows contact graphs to be easily generated for all domain boundaries. It is important to know the nature […]
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