Quickstart: GeoSuite in 10 minutes
Contents
Every module opens with the same real public dataset already loaded: drillholes from the Thalanga zinc-lead-copper deposit in Queensland. You need no account and no files of your own. Follow the four steps below and you will have seen the whole workflow, from raw drillholes to a grade-tonnage curve.
1. Core: check the drillholes (3 minutes)
- Dashboard shows 711 drillholes, 9,073 assay samples and 38 km of drilling. The data is published as-is, so Core finds real problems in it: holes without a survey, overlapping assay intervals, holes without a geology log. Finding these is Core's job.
- Validation lists every problem, hole by hole, with the reason.
- Section draws the holes on a cross-section with grades and lithology.
- Desurvey turns collar and survey into 3D hole traces.
2. Assay: understand the grades (3 minutes)
Open Orebit Assay. It opens with 1 m composites from the deposit area: 25 holes, Cu, Pb, Zn and Fe, split into a high-grade and a medium-grade domain.
- Stats gives mean, CV and percentiles per element and per domain.
- Top-Cut shows where the upper tail breaks up and suggests a cap.
- Domain builds grade-shell domains from a cut-off.
3. Resource: estimate and report (4 minutes)
- On the Dashboard, click Compute All Plots. In about a minute it fits the variograms, builds the block model, runs kriging and draws every chart.
- Variography shows the fitted variogram for each direction.
- Grade-Tonnage gives tonnes and grade at every cut-off.
- 3D View shows the blocks and the drillholes together.
4. Your own data
In Core, open Import and drop in your collar, survey, assay and geology CSV files. Column names such as Au (g/t) or Cu (%) are recognised automatically, and lab codes such as -0.005 (below detection) or -999 (missing) are handled for you. Everything runs on your computer; your files are never uploaded.
Export the composites from Core and load them on the Upload tab in Assay, then pass Assay's export to Resource the same way.
Next
The full Thalanga tutorial follows this dataset through every decision, from the raw government compilation to a grade-tonnage screen checked against 1989–1998 production. The manual documents every screen and setting.
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