Neste webinar, demonstraremos como a tecnologia permitiu que clientes continuassem com seus projetos de exploração em meio a uma pandemia global.

As empresas puderam continuar trabalhando porque tinham as ferramentas certas para fazer o trabalho.

O MX Deposit simplifica a forma como os dados de sondagem são coletados, gerenciados e compartilhados. Imago é uma solução de gerenciamento de imagens geocientíficas. Juntos, ajudam empresas de mineração e exploração a aumentar o valor de seus dados e imagens fotográficas. Neste webinar, você verá em primeira mão, ao vivo e em ação, com uma assinatura ativa do Imago, como pode conectá-lo à sua conta do MX Deposit e integrar as imagens armazenadas no Imago aos seus dados do MX Deposit!

Neste webinar, veremos como:

Como empresas de mineração estão usando imagens no dia a dia para agregar valor aos seus projetos
Integração de dados de furos de sondagem e fotografias de testemunho de sondagem
Desafios e oportunidades atuais que encontramos na fotografia em exploração
Como tirar o máximo proveito das fotos que você está coletando
Aumentar a velocidade de acesso às informações
Um exemplo de caso da Freegold Ventures

Apresentadores:
Santiago Cuartas, Desenvolvimento de Negócios, Seequent
Santiago Cuartas é geólogo e trabalha com Desenvolvimento de Negócios na Seequent. Como fala inglês e espanhol, ele atende empresas nas regiões da América do Norte e Latina. Santiago tem trabalha na Imago desde antes de ser adquirida pela Seequent em meados de 2021.

Kristina Walcott, Presidente e CEO, Freegold Ventures
A Sra. Walcott trabalhou em várias funções no setor de mineração e exploração mineral nos últimos 20 anos. A Sra. Walcott ocupou cargos administrativos e de campo, incluindo Gerente Geral dos Orex Laboratories, uma instalação de processamento de amostras de diamantes, e Gerente de Terras de Minas para a Pacific North West Capital e CanAlaska Uranium Limited, ambas empresas de exploração mineral sediadas em Vancouver com extensos trechos de terra no Canadá e nos Estados Unidos. Antes de sua nomeação como Presidente e CEO, a Sra. Walcott foi Vice-Presidente de Desenvolvimento de Negócios da Empresa desde março de 2005, quando foi responsável por identificar e adquirir novas oportunidades de negócios no setor de mineração.

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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Hi, everyone.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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Welcome to our webinar on uninterrupted explorations
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through a global pandemic.
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The past couple of years have been challenging
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for everyone to say the least.
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And today we’re going to discuss how one company
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was able to overcome these challenges
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and continue its exploration activities
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with the aid of a couple
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of very useful technological solutions.
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So a bit of housekeeping before we get started,
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as Sequent is now part of Bentley Systems,
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and as a public company,
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I need to briefly share this statement of confidentiality
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and disclaimer, and ask that the audience,
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please respect the intentions it expresses.
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You’ll be able to use the questions tab
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to ask questions throughout the presentation,
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which we will then ask to the presenters
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during the question period at the end.
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Also, if you can, please stick around at the end
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for a brief questionnaire
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to let us know how we did and to request more information,
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if you so desire.
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So my name is Stephanie Vanos and I’m a project geologist
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and data management specialist for Sequent North America.
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Joining me today for the discussion are Santiago Cuartas,
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a geologist with the business development team at Sequent
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and Kristina Walcott,
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president and chief executive officer
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of Freegold Ventures Limited.
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Welcome guys.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Thanks Stephanie.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So let’s rewind time a bit back to the beginning of 2020.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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What was exploration like
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for Freegold Ventures at the time?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Stephanie, in midst 5th February of 2020,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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we just started our winter drill program
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on our Golden Summit project,
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which is near Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Golden Summit is about 30 kilometers
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outside of Fairbanks.
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So it’s about half an hour,
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40 minutes drive for our drill crews.
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So the drill crew was staying in Fairbanks
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commuting to the project.
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We were using the ALS facilities for logging.
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We were using Excel and we’ve pretty much engaged ALS
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to do all of our core photography for us.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So Christina, that was kind of the process in that moment,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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but then March 2020, pandemic was declared.
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What was your initial reaction?
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Where were you at at the moment?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, I think what we’d been doing<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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in our previous programs,
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we were always taking our photos manually,
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renaming the file,
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saving them in folders that everybody’s familiar with,
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renaming box to,
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from whole number on each and individual photo.
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So we had a reasonable system that was working pretty well.
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At ALS, they were doing it much the same way.
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However, they had a better web view
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in order to view the core down hole,
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which is why initially we had them doing the photos.
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We were logging either using handwritten logs,
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transcribing into Excel, or logging straight
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into an Excel spreadsheet,
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but we always really struggle to fully use the data
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we were collecting.
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So many hours go into data collection.
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It often felt like we weren’t really honoring
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all of the data collecting
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and all the time our CIOs were putting into the logs.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, and I assume the pandemic<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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was whole a suite challenge for you not to be able
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to go to the core shack with the same frequency.
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So how did you move forward when COVID hit?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, so about March, of course, the pandemic hit,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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we were still drilling at Golden Summit.
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So we kept drilling probably till about mid March.
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It became increasingly apparent that this was a bad idea
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and we needed to shut down.
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So we actually stopped drilling partway
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through our second hole
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and really focused on getting our people home safely.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So there was a period in time where you were trying<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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to log with the masks.
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And then how did you,
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what was the main motivation for looking for a solution
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like MX or IMAGO at this point?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, it was interesting<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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because we had already started
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to look at different logging software.
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So we were fortunate to have actually done
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a bit of investigation
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into the different ways we might be able to do things.
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So I think it’s fair to say in our wildest dreams,
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we never thought it was going to turn out like this.
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So we had a lot of challenges to get wrapped back up.
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After we shut down, we spent a lot of time
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developing community safety plans,
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but I think over the last year and a half,
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we’ve really streamlined our information gathering
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and improved our efficiency and utilization
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of the data tremendously.
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And that’s largely been as a result of using the MX
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and the IMAGO systems.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So to this specific solutions that you identified,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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but can you tell us a little bit more about the story
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of how did you become aware of the solutions
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or how this conversation started?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So, as I mentioned,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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we were drilling at Golden Summit in March,
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RVPs and myself.
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We were down at PDAC I guess, early March.
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And we had already been interested in trying to improve
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our logging systems.
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We had demoed another different,
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a lot of different software products,
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but they weren’t exactly what we were looking for.
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They just didn’t have the flexibility
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or they were too expensive.
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So we actually arranged a demo FMX.
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We bought our first license actually,
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whilst we were at PDAC.
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The guys that I met for super,
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they onboard us right away.
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By the time we left PDAC we were fully onboarded into MX.
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So what we started with the initial idea was we wanted
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to bring all of our historic logs into MX
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and then expand on that.
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I think if I was going to do it differently,
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now I would have just started using MX
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and left the historical for later on.
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By about may,
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we were starting to look at what we were going to do
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with our Shorty Creek project.
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That’s another project we’ve got, our partner is South 32.
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Again, here, we were trying to improve our access to data.
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We had a significant number of photos uploaded
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in the same individual folders
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and sharing this data had proved
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to be quite frustrating.
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So I guess it was May, I reached out to Frederico at IMAGO
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after reading about their system.
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And we worked with them
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to have all of the historic core photos
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from Shorty Creek incorporated into that IMAGO platform.
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Of course, that’s when I first met you Santiago as well.
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So anyway, at the end of that, that meant both us
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and South 32 just had great access
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to all of the post oratorical photos.
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By June, we started to ramp up our program at Golden Summit,
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our primary focus to be fair,
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was really trying to execute the project safely.
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There were new protocols.
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We had some difficult drilling conditions
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which really occupied us for the first little bit.
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We began to use MX on the project
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and then we really started to tailor it,
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to figure out how we wanted to use it on our project.
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And I’ll say
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it was a pretty incredible transformation for us.
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We no longer were having our geos email the drill log down
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to us nightly.
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We were suddenly able
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to just instantly access the drill logs
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and see what we wanted to see when we wanted to see it.
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Sorry, Santiago.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />No, I was going to say<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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that I love the example of collaboration
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with South 32.
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Where are they based out of Australia or where were they?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />They were based out of Australia.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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So we were working with their team primarily
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out of Australia.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Wow, that’s awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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(radio interference drowns out speaker)
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And it was just really easy to do.
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And so we still had ALS taking our core photos for us,
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but what we wanted to do then
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is having seen what was possible with the old photos
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from Shorty Creek was trying to see
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if we could do that real time at Golden Summit.
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So again, we reached out
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to you guys and this time we purchased the system,
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so a couple of back and forth conversations,
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we were able to get a system built for us
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that really worked well for us.
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And we had it shipped up to Alaska
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and after reasonably quick training, we were up and running.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Oh, that’s great.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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So fast forward, you have now implemented both systems
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and now you have them in functioning in the core shack.
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So you and your team prepared a video
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to share with us today.
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Should we play it now?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, I think that would be great, Santiago.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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Just a reminder to everybody watching here,
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you may need to turn up the volume to be able to hear
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what our geo was saying.
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Sometimes it comes across a little thing.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Okay.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Oh, hi.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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I’m Mark Ramo working with Freegold Ventures Limited
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at the Golden Summit project outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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We’re here doing a large Korean project.
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This is our second portion and others exactly like this.
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We’ve been using MX deposit and the IMAGO software app
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for about a year now,
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and it has improved our efficiency drastically.
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Instead of everyone having a computer with Excel
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that you have to save and go in and out of a million times,
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everyone can be logging this hole at the same time,
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as long as you have a different tablet for it.
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So here you can see,
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I have lithology pulled up and this is top of the hole
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to our current position in the hole, which is right here.
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And if you come over here, you can see Mike’s over here,
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logging mineralization for each interval
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that we’ve already distinguished.
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And then as you go through, you can continue.
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And we even have a oriented log program here.
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So we have a tablet for the oriented log structure,
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alteration, mineralization, RQD sample,
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and there’s everything we do to log this core.
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And as I said,
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everyone on their tablet can be doing it different tab
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at the same time.
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So it’s highly efficient.
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And then as soon as you pull out of it,
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it all auto-populates to every computer
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that’s logged into the program at the time.
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Our Internet’s very slow right now.
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So it can take a little while,
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but that’s our only slow down.
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And as we’re going, we’re logging.
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We’re also snapping pictures at the same time.
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And we’ve found that having consistent lighting is key
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to being able to capture well lit photos.
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So as we go,
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you can come over here and see the software.
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This is our buddy Hayes.
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He’s been helping us a bunch.
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So you just type in the new depth
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you want to go to 397.3, move the whole thing over
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and then just hit the button and you get your photo
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right up here and you can see it’s already cropped.
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It has this amazing auto cropping feature
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that it’ll take each row and crop it individually,
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and then once you get uploaded to the software site,
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it will lay them all out consecutively
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so you get a nice line of your pictures
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as the hole is going down.
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It’s pretty amazing stuff.
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And yes, as you can see,
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we have our different holes here and you can go in
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and it takes awhile to load,
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but this will bring up all the different tabs
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as I head out before.
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And that’s, about how we log core here
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at Golden Summit, thanks.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Wow, that was amazing.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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Thank you very much for sharing it.
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So one question here,
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how was the process of incorporating new workflows
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around data capture in the core shack?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, Santiago, I’m sure you can imagine<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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with anything new,
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there’s always a little resistance, but overall,
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the integration went fairly well.
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I think initially there was some concern
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about how long taking photos,
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what it was going to add to the workflow,
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but at the end of the day, as you can see,
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it’s a fairly quick process,
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you just move the tablet camera
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and the frame down the box.
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Now the other thing that’s nice,
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of course, you’re no longer handling the core,
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taking it into a little photo booth there.
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So you’re able to sort of,
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it saves everyone’s back, right?
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The quality of photos has been super, as Mark mentioned,
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we really just had to make sure
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the light was pretty constant.
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That was something initially we struggled with a little bit,
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but once we got that figured out, it was pretty simple.
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So we’re now actually using two IMAGO systems,
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one in each core shack.
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Just as another example,
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we did some relogging of our Shorty Creek core last year.
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And one of the things with that is we were able to,
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having the historical photos up with the split core,
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it was a really great cross comparison.
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The other thing that really sort of showed us was just
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how much better the quality of the IMAGO images was
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compared to what we had been doing.
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And I mean,
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we were pretty fussy and it took us a fair bit of time,
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but these photos were just far superior.
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With next, probably the biggest resistance
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came from the use of tablets over laptops.
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Ironically, our guys all wanted
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to log with laptops initially,
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and we had to push hard to get them to use the tablets.
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So what we see now of course is nobody wants
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to go near a laptop.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, there was a bit of resistance,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:14:08.920] 
but when they realized it was much kind of efficient
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to do it with the new systems,
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kind of worked out, and now let’s jump
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to the usage and the integration of the data.
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Can you describe us how are you using both systems now?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So yeah, with the IMAGO,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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we’re using IMAGO for all of our drilling images and MX
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is the geo database.
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So we’re using them all the time.
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We’re able to quickly pull up the drill logs,
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corresponding photos,
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and we’ve also been using it as a tool
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to store additional project information.
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Last summer, as I mentioned, that we’re having
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real challenges with the drilling conditions.
[00:14:45.450] 
We put together a mud tab in which we were just recording
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the pH and the viscosity.
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So it allowed us to integrate sort of
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what we were seeing in our drilling conditions
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and mud in an effort to predict when we might either expect
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to encounter difficult conditions
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or we use as a reference tool.
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So it’s proven to be a very effective reference library
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for guys to go back to and say,
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look, we were seeing this here.
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This is what we were doing here,
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and this helped us get through it.
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As I mentioned earlier,
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we’re partnered with South 32 on our other project.
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We did a Joel program at Shorty Creek this summer.
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Most of their team was in Australia
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and unable to travel to site.
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So we needed a way that we could quickly see the drill core
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of the data.
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So again, here we built, just quickly built a quick Glock,
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a tab in MX.
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So we were able to view the daily log and get a feel
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for what we were seeing as well.
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So often we were able to get the photos up the same day.
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So by the time they were getting up the next morning,
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they were looking at drill core drilled the previous day.
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So I think the one thing and the big selling point for us
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with that was MX was we can build your own tables and less.
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So if you want to make changes,
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you can make the changes internally.
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You don’t need to go and have somebody else
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make the changes, so you can do it very effectively.
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So if you wanted a new pull down tab to describe bane types
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or add another tab in there,
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you can just build it in and it becomes,
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it’s very user-friendly for us.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Oh, wow.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:16:08.280] 
I’m still loving that example.
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So about the systems integration
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as IMAGO and MX are connected,
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was this like connectivity feature part of the plan,
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or was it something that took you by surprise
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when you started using the platforms?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, no, actually that was another one<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:16:26.530] 
of those key things we were looking for.
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Again, I think it’s tremendously helpful,
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especially when you’re looking at things from afar
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to be able to look at a drill log
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and look at the photographs
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and see what people are calling things.
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We’ve got a lot of different experience on the project,
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a lot of senior guys.
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So they had different ideas
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and this really allowed them to look at the drill core,
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then look at what the guys were logging.
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And we were able to have a very iterative conversation
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about what we were doing here.
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So it became,
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so we really were able to have the input
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as to what was being logged real time.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Oh, wow.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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And now when we were talking
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about putting these webinars together,
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you were very excited about sharing
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your QATC workflow with the audience.
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So yes, can you tell us
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why are you excited about your QAQC?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, I think anybody who’s ever tried<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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to sort of kind of marry assays to databases
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or assays and Excel logs will know
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sometimes it’s a horrible, tedious process.
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So with MX, it’s really a very straight importation process,
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especially, in our case,
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we’re working with two different labs
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to print analytical methods.
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So it really
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(radio interference drowns out speaker)
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So you’re able to set the workflow up.
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You can simply import the specific labs workflow.
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You can store all your certificates for the standards,
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the CSV files and the corresponding labs certificates.
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So being able to set the standards and the values
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of the tolerance as to what’s acceptable pass, fail,
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it really simplifies the QAQC process dramatically.
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So you quickly plot out,
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you put a good plot there, a Santiago there,
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you can quickly plot out where your standards are reporting
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and the duplicates.
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So you get a really good feel
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for the quality of analysis very quickly.
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So it’s, again, it’s a huge time-saver for us.
[00:18:22.210] 
<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, very useful.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:18:24.010] 
Now I remember when you reached out,
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you had a big amount of historical images,
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do you think there was some value in those images
[00:18:34.680] 
that you weren’t using to its full potential?
[00:18:38.550] 
<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Oh, absolutely.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:18:39.570] 
And I think that’s probably true of most companies,
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you take all these images and you store them on a drive
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and you really don’t look at them.
[00:18:47.910] 
I mean, this allowed us
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to sort of have kind of real-time access to them.
[00:18:52.310] 
So if we wanted to go back
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and look at a hole that was drilled in 2010,
[00:18:56.500] 
we were just now able to go and pull up those photos,
[00:19:00.551] 
again, it’s really just it’s contributed
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to the overall quality of our datasets.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />And related to the topic<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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of having all the systems connected,
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how are you using this
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on a modeling tool such as leapfrog?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, so a couple of things, of course,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:19:20.840] 
we’re using leapfrog for modeling we’re using target again
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for our sections.
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Again, it’s a very simple process.
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You’re able to export the CSV files
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and then just quickly bring it in.
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I think you said you’ve got a video here that maybe
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we can take a look at how the leapfrog
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integrates very well with IMAGO.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, so Steph is playing the video right now,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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and that shows how you can go and basically
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cake on a specific interval and get the correspondent image.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah. Now again, it’s a fantastic visualization tool.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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So if you’ve got some questions about what you’re seeing,
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you’re able to quickly verify it.
[00:20:05.340] 
We’re doing a lot of oriented core again at Golden Summit.
[00:20:08.490] 
So again, it’s a great reference tool.
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Go back, look at it.
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So, it really, it helps to be a data storage tool as well.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, Christina,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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thank you very much for sharing all this useful information
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with us today.
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Now to wrap up,
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if you have to identify some key lessons
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from this whole process and journey
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you have being involved, what would they be?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I think, you always have to remember<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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to try new things, right?
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Sometimes everything feels really daunting,
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but I think you have to sort of approach it logically
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in a sort of a step-by-step fashion
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and you have to figure out what the technology
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or what this new thing is actually going to do for you,
[00:20:52.970] 
and how you’re really going to use it.
[00:20:54.650] 
So I think, what we did by starting with MX,
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then integrating the IMAGO
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and now bringing it into sort of the target
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and the leapfrog,
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it’s all very much a sequential step and it allowed us
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to build on it logically
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without being overwhelming at first.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Well, yeah, that’s a great lesson.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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And another lesson that I will like to mention here is that,
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you and your team are an example of how a company
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in an exploration stage
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can adopt these cutting edge technologies
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in order to make their work more efficient.
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So I think that’s great and worth mentioning.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, and I think to that,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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I do want to speak about the actual affordability
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of both of that technologies because they’re cloud-based,
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they are reasonably affordable, as a junior company,
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we’re always watching our budgets and don’t necessarily
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have a huge budget for software.
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So the way it’s been done,
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sort of being able to sort of buy MX licenses individually,
[00:21:58.010] 
the platform, it actually fit our budget as well.
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So not only was it functional,
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it didn’t have a huge learning curve,
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but it was also affordable.
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And I think for junior companies,
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that really has to be at the forefront too.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Absolutely great.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:22:15.110] 
So again, thank you very much for your time
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and sharing all of these great information with us,
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hand over now to Steff,
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to lead the question panel.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yeah, so thank you both for that awesome discussion.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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And if anybody has any questions,
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please drop them in the questions tab.
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I can get us started
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while we’re waiting.
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So here’s one, has the introduction of this new way
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of working helped with employee morale,
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and do you think it will help you in recruiting new talent?
[00:22:50.020] 
<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I think it’s been a tremendous help.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:22:53.040] 
I think, we have a fairly young team,
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mixed with some more senior people.
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And what we’re seeing from them is they’re really keen
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to embrace the technology
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that the first ones to email saying, well,
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what if we have this, what if we do that?
[00:23:06.610] 
We could look at this as well.
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So, and I think in turn,
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what we’re finding is a lot of word of mouth referrals,
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the guys were saying, “Hey, you know what,
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this is what they’re doing, come and check it out.
[00:23:18.000] 
I know they’re hiring.”
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So we’ve had great success I think,
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in using this technology.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:23:26.740] 
So we have a question from James Andrew, it says,
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does this integrate with Acquire?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />We haven’t used Acquire.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:23:36.710] 
I mean, again, so that’s, we looked at Acquire,
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but really we just stick with the MX, Steph,
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do you want to speak to that?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I can share MX deposit<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:23:49.710] 
is its own logging database and software.
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So Acquire is really a competitor of that,
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but Santiago, do you want to mention how IMAGO connects?
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Did we lose Santiago?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I think we may have.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:24:12.080] 
<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I’m sorry, I was on mute.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:24:13.180] 
I was on mute, I’m sorry.
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So I’ll say thanks for the question, and the answer is yes,
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it does, it does connect with Acquire.
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It does also connect with Aqua arena as well.
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So yes, it does connect.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:24:34.870] 
So another question we have here
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is for linking the core box intervals and MX deposit
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and the images in IMAGO.
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Is this something that you have to do manually
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or is this done automatically?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />So it’s pretty much just clicking<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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on the integration tab
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and it automatically populates.
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So once you’ve got your log up,
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you can just have, once the integration is turned on,
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you’ll see the core photos right away,
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which again is just very helpful.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Okay, and we have a question from Miguel, I’m sorry.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:25:07.430] 
I don’t know how to pronounce your last name,
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but what is the price of IMAGO and how do the licenses work?
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So I guess that one’s for you, Santiago.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Yes, so the price of IMAGO, it’s going to depend<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:25:19.190] 
on the project,
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basically the project size and the license is per project,
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is site-based and it is an annual license
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and gives you access to unlimited users.
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So in order to get more information
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about a specific pricing that may apply for your project,
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please reach out to our team.
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But basically, what you get
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with the license is you get the ability
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to capture the core as Christina is doing in the core shack.
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Then the core is going to be organized,
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the core images that are going to be organized
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in this central platform.
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And when they are in the central platform,
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they can be connected with these softwares
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such as leapfrog, MX, among others.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:26:12.030] 
Okay.
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What was the largest hurdle
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to implementing this on site, Christina?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I think again,<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:26:21.710] 
it’s probably just a little bit of human resistance.
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They’re not used to doing something in a different way,
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but I think,
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once we were able to demonstrate the efficiency,
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everybody really jumped on board very quickly.
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And I think also part of it is just the scale of tasks
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that we were sort of embarking upon is like,
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how are we going to start to automate this?
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And I said at first it’s very daunting,
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but we just sort of took it piece by piece.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:26:53.200] 
And do you think you would have been as successful
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with your exploration efforts
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if you wouldn’t have had IMAGO and MX deposit?
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />I think after the last year, no.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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I mean, it really, really allowed us
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to have sort of that real time access to data,
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especially, we obviously have a tremendous backlog
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in assays right now.
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So being able to have the photos and the logs
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really have helped guide our project
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and our exploration as we’re going forward.
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So we’ve drilled just over about 40,000 meters
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using the software right now.
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So it’s been an invaluable tool for us.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />That’s awesome.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
[00:27:30.090] 
That’s all the time we have now for questions.
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If we didn’t get to yours,
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we can definitely, we’ll respond in an email,
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but I just want to thank you all so much
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for attending today.
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I hope this webinar held some valuable information for you
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and as always, should you have any questions,
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please don’t hesitate to reach out
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and get in touch with us through our region representatives.
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So thank you all again
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and have a wonderful rest of your day.
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Thanks so much.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Thank you, Christina.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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Thank you very much.
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<encoded_tag_open />v -<encoded_tag_closed />Thanks to you both as well.<encoded_tag_open />/v<encoded_tag_closed />
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Exploração ininterrupta em meio a uma pandemia global

Neste webinar, demonstraremos como a tecnologia permitiu que clientes continuassem com seus projetos de exploração em meio a uma pandemia global.

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