Engineering Services in Mine & Geology

Geostat Systems International Inc. (Geostat) offers complete services for the mining and exploration industry. Your company can take advantage of our experience with the complete Geostat solution or take advantage of our knowledge to solve specific problems that you have encountered.

Established in 1981 to provide the resource industry with computer assisted ore reserve estimation services using mainly geostatistical techniques, Geostat has earned its leading position by utilising a rare blend of people with practical mining, geological and geotechnical experience, world-renown theoretical knowledge and the latest computer and software technology. Today Geostat uses this same combination to offer you a wide range of services for exploration and mining companies.

Our experience extends worldwide. Geostat has completed consulting projects on the five continents in climactic conditions varying from tropical to arctic.

Geostat consulting services include :

• Management of exploration programs
• Geological mapping from large to local scale
• Supervision of drilling and core logging
• Trenching and sampling
• Bulk sampling
• Layout of reference grids
• Topographic survey

• Geological data computerisation
• Digitizing and drafting
• Data conversion from various sources
• Customized treatment of data and custom-programming of data-centric applications with Microsoft Access

• Computer based 3D orebody modelling
• Sectional, longitudinal, 3D and multi-seam modelling
• 3D visualisation
• Geostatistical analysis, variographic analysis of composite spatial continuity
• Resource estimation using industry standard methods from Inverse Distance interpolation to Kriging
• Resource classification with application of the Canadian Institute of Mining and metallurgy (CIM) standards.

• NI 43-101 Qualified persons
• Due diligence - Audits
• Technical report
• Property evaluation
• Prefeasibility studies
• Certification of reserves

• Ore reserve estimation
• Mine optimization and design
• Mine planning
• Sampling optimization
• Blending optimization
• Reconciliation of production data
• Survey of piles and quarry

In typical projects, the solution is not only consulting or software but it is a combination of both. It involves the construction of a geological and resource model from data coming from various sources.

Depending on the nature of the information, hard copy or computerized, the principal steps of computer modelling can be summarised as:

• Creation, standardisation and validation of the database
• Section plotting and interactive geological modelling
• Geostatistical analysis
• Block modelling
• Resource estimation and classification
• Economical optimization
• Final mine design
• Mine planning and production scheduling
• Comprehensive training of staff and project follow-up.

Geostat offers comprehensive geotechnical & hydrogeological consulting services that include:

• Slope stability analysis in open pit mines and quarries
• Complete investigation of soils, rock and groundwater
• Erosion control
• Drainage analysis
• Pond design and stability
• Waste dump design
• Instrumentation, monitoring and training

At Geostat we are keen on technological and knowledge transfer. Over the years, hundreds of engineers, geologists and technicians have beneficiated from our expertise and experience. We offer on site general training or short course on specific topics. The courses available are:

• Geostatistics for the mineral industry
• Computer orebody modelling and resource estimation
• Sampling optimization for the mining industry
• Open pit optimization
• Sampling optimization for the environment
• Conditional simulation for the mining industry
• Quarry survey and digital terrain model management
• Statistical processing of environmental sampling data
• Advanced geostatistics and modelling, sampling theory and practice for the cement industry

Geostat has acquired an extensive in the modelling of limestone quarries. We provide services from resource modelling, to mine design, to clinker optimization. Geostat has developed the software application OPTIMIX to optimize the blending of limestone and additives to achieve predetermined clinker characteristics. Coal burning plants are also taken into account in the process.

• Geological survey
• Geotechnical survey
• Fractures and Structures inventory Survey
• Cliff survey
• Rock mechanics
• Cliff stripping
• Machinery supervision
• Cliff chipping
• Air and water rock cleaning
• Anchorage and safety wire mesh installation
• Rock Body monitoring and catastrophe prevention

• Production of mine site reclamation programs, reconversion and closure plan
• Landscape analysis and inventory
• Visual impact study
• Land development and landscape architecture
• Concept and design of waste dump
• Costs estimate
• 3D animations (exploitation, progressive reclamation)
• Photo-simulation with realistic renderings
• Site works (management, field supervision, plantations and transplantations)
• Technical plans and specification reports