KSM Mining ULC • BC, Canada
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The KSM project is a proposed gold-copper project located northwest of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The Project is the world’s largest undeveloped gold project and comprises five separate ore bodies.
Life Cycle Geo (LCG), in partnership with Geosyntec, was engaged from 2018 to 2024 to support characterization, classification, and mine materials management from operations to post-closure. LCG developed innovative data-driven, machine learning based workflows to help KSM optimize materials management through the project life cycle.
Scope of Services
LCG and Geosyntec were engaged to support KSM in the following activities:
- Conduct multiple, advanced, long-term materials characterization tests to support development of project conceptual models for ore, borrow, and waste material behavior
- Identify material domains (or classes) by integrating all lab and field characterization data using standard multivariate unsupervised machine learning approaches
- Develop regression and classification-based supervised machine learning workflows to extend ore, borrow and waste material classes to the exploration assay database
- Engage in multi-stakeholder discussions to evaluate long-term project materials and water management options during the operational and post-closure stages of the life cycle
Notable Accomplishments
The innovative data-driven methods developed and employed are a step change improvement in material classification and volume estimation accuracy which will result in considerable long-term project risk reduction and cost savings.
PROJECT GALLERY
AT A GLANCE
- Geochemical characterization.
- Geometallurgical and environmental conceptual models.
- Material classification and domaining techniques.
- Material property prediction.