About Geosoft

Exploration software and solutions

Carlo Combrinck – Technical Analyst, Geosoft Africa

 Where we are today

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About Geosoft
 Why Geosoft

• Geosoft has over 25 years in the industry

• Growing annually, approximately 50% of
our staff are trained as Geoscientists,
providing us with the expertise to help you
with your projects
• Our ability to listen to the industry needs
and continually improve our technology to
meet the needs of our clients

About Geosoft
 Mineral Exploration Workflow

2D

Resource Reserve
Target Testing
Area Target Delineation Delineation
(Advanced
Selection Generation (Inferred (Indicated
Exploration)
Resource) Resource)

3D

Project Exploration
Generation Mine Engineering

The exploration process starts with a large area and with each step we add new information,
which helps narrow the target area to a smaller and smaller location.

About Geosoft
 Support for every step
Oasis montaj provides the tools to support your decision making, no
matter what steps you are responsible for.

Collect
Process Map
Present
Decide
QA / QC Interpret
Analyse

About Geosoft
 Geosoft provides a scalable, flexible solution for every
step of your exploration workflow.

Access Visualize Interpret Share

About Geosoft
 Exploration Solutions

Gravity and magnetic Modelling and 3D modeling and Data management

mapping and processing interpretation interpretation

About Geosoft
 Desktop software applications

Oasis montaj

About Geosoft
 Desktop software applications

Target
About Geosoft
 Extensions for ArcGIS

Target for ArcGIS

About Geosoft
 Extensions for ArcGIS

Geochemistry for ArcGIS

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 3D Earth Modelling

Geosoft VOXI Earth Modelling

About Geosoft
 Exploration Information Management
DAP Server Data Services

About Geosoft
Why use Oasis montaj?
Geosoft provides a complete data experience from data access,
processing, interpretation, data sharing and decision making. Geosoft
software is used for mapping and processing large volumes of
multidisciplinary data.
Advanced 2D and 3D gridding capabilities
• Simple gridding interfaces
• Fast accurate results
• Interpolate data using many
gridding algorithms:
• Minimum curvature
• Bi-Directional
• Trended
• Gradient
• Tinning and Kriging
• Inverse distance
weighting
Professional quality mapping

• Multiple data views

• Rich plotting capabilities
• Extensive labeling control
• Supports multiple
projections
• Custom map-making
Dynamic Linking
Link all your data in real time

• Linking between database,

and profiles, maps and
graphs
• Linking between multiple
maps regardless of
projections
Subsurface 3D
• Integrate all your data:
drillholes, surfaces,
elevation grids, voxels and
data models
• Visualize all your data
in 3D – surfaces, symbols,
voxels, etc.
• Integrate with mine planning
packages
Sharing data and results
Several options for sharing maps:

• Create 3D PDFs
• Packed maps:
Compress a map
with its associated
files.
• E-maps: Send an
e-mail with an
attached map.
software extensions
Geophysics extension
Geophysical processing tools for filtering and quality control

Capabilities:
• 1D space domain filters
• Non-linear filter
• 1D FFT filters
• Lag, heading corrections
• Base station correction
• Histogram tool
• Scatterplot tool
• Triplot tool
• Curved geophysical sections
MAGMAP extension
Apply FFT filters to gridded data
Capabilities:
• Interactive Spectrum
previewer
• 2D FFT filters:
• Regional-residual filters
• Upward/Downward
Continuation
• Reduction-to-pole
• Derivatives
• Directional filters
• Additional specialty filters
Geochemistry
Provides visualization and statistical analysis of Geochemical data

Capabilities:
• Quality Control
• Duplicates and Standards
• Multi-element analysis
• Interactive Probability plots
Geochemistry
• Interactive scatterplots, ternary
plots and histograms
• Advanced symbol plotting
• Subset based on rock codes,
regions, map groups
• SEMplot diamond analysis
Drillhole Plotting
Quick and accurate presentation of drillhole data

Capabilities:
• QA/QC data validation
• Plans, sections and strip logs
• Process large volume drillhole data
• 3D plotting
• Fully integrate with other data
• Links to mine modeling packages
• Links to database management
systems
Gravity/Magnetic Interpretation
Determine depth to source of gridded magnetic and gravity data

Capabilities:
• Depth-to source estimation
• 3D Euler deconvolution
• An-Euler technique
• Located Euler
• Source Parameter Imaging
• Source Edge Detection
• Keating coefficients for kimberlite
detection
Gridknit
Connect and merge multiple grids

Capabilities:
• Grid merging
• Automatic or interactive stitch
selection
• Pre-processing options
• Trend removal options
• Blending method
• Suture and weighting options
Airborne Quality Control
Airborne survey planning, monitoring and quality control

Capabilities:
• Flight planning
• Distance and Statistics reports
• Altitude deviation test
• Flight path deviation test
• Flight line separation test
• Sample spacing test
• Diurnal drift test
• Magnetic noise test
• Flight/Tie line intersection test
Geophysical levelling
Tools for levelling airborne geophysical data.

Capabilities:
• Correct for systematic error
(lag, heading, diurnal, IGRF)
• Find and edit intersections
• Statistical tie-line levelling
• Controlled levelling
• Microlevelling
Gravity and Terrain Correction
Enables reduction and processing of ground survey gravity data

Capabilities:
• Base station calibration
• Drift and Tide corrections
• Free-air and Bouguer
Anomaly
• Terrain corrections using
DEM data
• Moving platform corrections
Induced Polarization
Used for processing and display of IP data

Capabilities:
• Time and frequency domain
• Dipole-dipole
and pole-dipole
• Pole-pole and gradient arrays
• Reduction of raw data
• Quality control
• Plot pseudo-sections
• Plot stacked sections
• Plot 3D views
UX-Detect
Locate and Analyse UXO targets

Capabilities:
• Unexploded Ordnance
detection
• EM, magnetic or gradient data
• Automatically locate targets
• Interactively select and refine
targets
• Calculate target characteristics
• Generate reports
GM-SYS Profile Modelling
Models magnetic and gravity data

GM-SYS Basic GM-SYS

• Gravity and Intermediate
Magnetic • Joint Inversion
• 2D Forward • Seismic bitmap
modeling backdrop
• Interactive model GM-SYS Advanced
building
• Gradients
• High resolution
• Grid response
• Extended model
size
GM-SYS 3D Modelling
Models 3D subsurface structures

Capabilities:
• Gravity and Magnetic
modelling
• Inversion
• Variable density
• Full 3D visualization
• In-line filters
VOXI Earth Modelling
Generates 3D voxel models from airborne or ground gravity and magnetic data

Capabilities
• Built into the Oasis montaj platform
• Access and pay for the service only
when you need it
• Leverages the power of Microsoft
Azure cloud platform to create 3D
geophysical models
• Powerful tools to manipulate your
data and create realistic models
• Optimised geophysical inversion
algorithms
Iterative Reweighting Inversion Focusing (IRIF)
Earth Model Default, “smooth” inversion result IRIF result
Magnetization Vector Inversion

Osborne IOCG Deposit - Comparing MVI with Susceptibility inversion:

Geological Setting Susceptibility model MVI Susceptibility Model

partner extensions
PotentQ Modelling Lite
Magnetic and gravity anomaly modeling

Capabilities:
• Simple gravity and magnetic
modeling
• Single body, single anomaly
• Rapid semi-automatic
modelling
• Forward and inverse
• Multiple datasets
• Interactive control
Depth to Basement
Determine depth to basement from gravity and magnetic data

Capabilities:
• Profile based
• Werner deconvolution
• Extended Euler deconvolution
• Analytic signal
• Cluster solutions
• Export solutions to GM-SYS
 CET Grid Analysis
Automated lineament detection of gridded data

Capabilities:
• Texture Analysis
• Phase Symmetry
• Structure Detection
• Phase Congruency

Magnetic grid Edge strength output Structural lineaments

Praga Radiometrics Processing
Process airborne and ground gamma-ray spectrometry data

Capabilities:
• Whole spectrum processing
• Spectrum browser for peak
identification
• Window (ROI) based
processing to IAEA standards
• Full spectrum using least
squares
• NAVSD and MNF analysis
• Advanced radon removal
Isostatic Residual
Calculate Airy isostatic regional and residual gravity from a topographic grid

Capabilities:
• Depth to the Moho
• Topographic grid
• Terrain density
• Moho density contrast
• Depth of sea level
compensation
Advanced Geophysical Extensions
Additional geophysical tools

Compudrape Grav/Mag filtering

• Drape-flown to barometric continuation • Continuous reduction-to-pole
• 1D and 2D • TMI from horizontal gradients
CET Porphyry Analysis
Automatically locate porphyry magnetic signatures

Capabilities:
• Circular feature transform
• Amplitude contrast
transform
• Boundary tracing
Predictive targeting
Simulation and target generation with neural networks

Capabilities:
• Delineate one or more
known targets to provide
signatures
• Apply neural network
training to the known targets
• Apply neural network
simulation to the study area,
to locate signatures similar
to the known targets.
Thank you.
At Geosoft, we love to hear from customers, so
if you have any questions, you can e-mail us at
explore@geosoft.com or visit www.geosoft.com