The mining industry must undergo a sustainability transformation to operate in a world that hopes to decrease humanity’s impact on the environment. Even more importantly, it is a key enabler for the broader move to a green economy - much more minerals and metals need to be discovered and mined to meet the demands of the new sustainable technologies. To do that, mining has to become more efficient and green. Another issue are the workforce shortages - especially for positions that are dangerous or demand being dispatched to remote sites for long periods of time. The industry has come to the realization that digitalizing its operations and introducing AI is necessary to enable change.
Drill core logging is used as important input for financial projections and planning of the mining operations - immense investments that influence regions and local communities for years to come. The legacy method of manual mapping is subjective, as well as time- and resource-consuming but no alternative has been able to replace it so far.
Our solution is the first complete AI-driven drill core logging solution. It will use data gathered by a non-destructive sensor to provide the user with not only raw data, but also with automatically generated geological mapping. Digitalizing and automating this part of workflow will increase objectivity and consistency of sample analysis, as well as decrease the amount of manual work required by a geologist.
This will translate into significant time savings for our customers: they will have access to a complete drill core log 90% faster, and will be able to start their operations 50% faster. The accurate and detailed data will enable targeted mining which means better access to the minerals in demand, better knowledge of deposit composition, and better waste utilization. Human oversight will be needed for quality control only which will change the workflows and make them more worker-friendly.
This will be the next step in the Minalyze-led transformation of the mining industry.
SensAI is a new product developed by Minalyze. It will utilize the unique positioning of our company’s portfolio of existing products - the datasets from Minalyzer CS, the patented advanced drill core scanner, and the online access to drill core visualization offered by the Minalogger, our web based software. It is however a completely new solution, based on AI algorithms, trained to identify and log rock types with the highest level of precision and confidence.
Minalyze is a leader in developing innovative technologies for mining. We have proved that by delivering Minalyzer - the first sensor capable of providing highly detailed data on chemistry, structures, density and high-resolution images of samples, without destroying them in the process. We have already shortened the time needed to have the raw data on samples from 3-7 months to ca. 5 hours.
The next step is to introduce AI and machine learning to automate the next step within the process - geological mapping of the drill cores. SensAI’s innovativeness is based on: 1) providing objective results and prognoses with high level of accuracy; 2) shortening time to exploitation and lowering financial as well as environmental costs; and 3) providing access to relevant data from anywhere in the world, without the need for lengthy dispatch of geologists to remote sites.
