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Critical
Minerals

The energy transition for power generation, transportation and storage requires a global supply chain of critical minerals that surpasses current reserves and production forecasts. The industry faces an urgency to meet demand with a social license to operate a sustainable lifecycle of discovery, development, production, and closure of critical mineral resources.

The critical minerals industry is focused on discovering future resources and maximizing  production from existing assets. Computational Geosciences is at the forefront of delivering quantitative solutions which address critical minerals challenges—spanning discovery, appraisal, development, operations and closure phases.

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3D EARTH MODELS

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYs

TARGETING

RESOURCE & GRADE

NEW FRONTIERS

"At the Frotet project in Quebec, CGI's 3D inversion models were integral in imaging gold-bearing structures within sulphidized intrusive rocks that are completely concealed by glacial deposits and lakes. From their models, we were able to target small chargeable zones which ultimately led to the Regnault discovery in March, 2020."

Francis MacDonald
Executive Vice President of Exploration
‍Kenorland Minerals

“Computational Geosciences has been an excellent group to work with for geophysical data 3D inversions.  We have relied on them for imaging targets under cover for many years and they have been a key part of our exploration workflow”

Michael Henrichsen
VP Exploration
‍Furry Gold Mines

3D Earth Models

3D earth models for the exploration-to-closure asset lifecycle

The 3D earth model of your mineral resource is a living asset that has value at all stages of your business lifecycle, from exploration to closure. We apply our in-house 3D inversion software to geophysics data to image small and large scale underground natural resources with high precision. These models form a key component for how exploration teams will target, drill, and plan future work.

3D earth models for the exploration-to-closure asset lifecycle

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Geophysical Surveys

Optimizing geophysical survey design for mineral targeting

We combine 3D geologic modelling, petrophysical property analysis, and geophysical modelling to design geophysical survey configurations to optimally target critical mineral resources while keeping acquisition costs low.

Optimizing geophysical survey design for mineral targeting

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Targeting

Critical Mineral Prospectivity and Targeting

We apply deep learning artificial intelligence to target and rank critical mineral resources from huge volumes of sparse, unstructured regional geoscientific data available from public and private data libraries, augmented by our 3D giga-cell inversions of available geophysical data libraries. These solutions build upon the industry’s most advance 3D inversions of airborne induced polarization, electromagnetic, magnetic, and gravity data.

Critical Mineral Prospectivity and Targeting

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Resource & Grade

Quantitative Resource and Grade Estimation

We quantify critical mineral resource and grade estimates by geostatistically propagating sample assays to 3D earth models with rock property and grade relationships. This enables initial resource estimates, which can be rapidly refined and continuously re-risked with incremental data.

Quantitative Resource and Grade Estimation

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New Frontiers

Discovery and Appraisal of Deep Sea Minerals

The first technical and legislative steps are being taken towards the commercial development of high-grade deep sea mineral resources in large areas of polymetallic nodules and extinct hydrothermal vents. Computational Geoscience has been at the forecront of this market creation by leveraging its critical minerals discovery and appraisal capabilities to the quantitative interpretation of deep sea mineral resources.

Discovery and Appraisal of Deep Sea Minerals

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