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Forum panel explores big data questions

The truth about big data in resource evaluation, and exploration data management? Well, as respected BHP Billiton principal geoscientist Cam McCuaig indicated in a recent forum focused on future trends in data collection and interpretation, most of us might not be able to handle the truth!

Richard Roberts
Too much exploration data is never enough: Panel turned that suggestion on its head. Image DET CRC

Too much exploration data is never enough: Panel turned that suggestion on its head. Image DET CRC

The forum*, on the sidelines of a Perth mining investment conference, brought together McCuaig, Rio Tinto Iron Ore resource evaluation manager Mark Tait, and renowned SRK geostatistics expert Daniel Guibal...

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