Mfakeyi Makayi
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What would your prediction be, and how confident would you be in your prediction?
What about across the room?
Think of any person across this room and try to predict 1,000 meters below them.
What about in the next building or the next city?
This is the vast challenge that we face.
We've only sampled a tiny fraction of rock, collected several football fields apart from each other, for which we're trying to make predictions of all the rock properties in between.
This technology has helped us move fast in Zambia, where I come from, to design and develop a mine based on our predictions for which we've only sampled a tiny fraction of rock.
Once again, there are many possibilities, all consistent with the data.
Some with a lot more metal, some with less, and the difference is a measure of uncertainties.
This enables us to know where we should collect information next, where we should drill the next hole, and when we can stop drilling and actually start building a mine.
To build the mind of the future, we continue to contend with this uncertainty.
The industry designs an entire mind based on a single model.
We're developing CoboMine, a mine design optimization tool that looks at the many possible mine designs against the many possible ore body geometries that we talked about earlier.
This enables the best decisions about how much ore we're going to mine, how much waste we're going to produce, how much water we'll use, the cash flows and so on.
This enables the best mine planning decisions about where to put permanent infrastructure like a shaft.
where the traffic and the tunnels will be placed so we can make efficient decisions, and also how we can maximize the ore and the metal we get and minimize the waste.
This technology will move into mine operations to help guide day-to-day decisions for efficiencies.
Better predictions don't just mean profitability.
It means a safer mine, knowing where the rocks are weaker.
It means an environmentally sustainable mine so we can lessen our impact on the environment.