OR DEALING WITH “DON’T WORRY, HE’LL

FIGURE IT OUT.” , WHEN YOU ARE THE HE.

Field Lab Setup

Field Lab Problems

Old, limited computer (WYSIWYG)No InternetNew XRF toolRotating field lab technicians“SOP?, that’s in the SOP?”

Tool Needs

Automatic custom EDD importingAutomatic dig decisions, based on:

Average of XRF readings XRF readings Average of XRF readings/lab results XRF readings/lab results

Sample trackingLimited sample info edits

(if they can’t touch it they can’t break it)

Export Needs

Instant XRF based dig decisionsDaily exports for large exceedancesMonthly exports of XRF readings and lab

results(trump and maximum)

Property exports of XRF readings and lab results

Great, so . . .

How did we do it?

DB Entry

Data Manager creates houses, DUs, locations, and samples

(pretty boring stuff here, not going to bore you)

Sample Tracking

Lab tech puts in field data

Sample Tracking

XRFing & Processing

We want to see if a given DU should be dug down Z or Z + a bit, so we start at the bottom

After XRFing all of one depth we check

XRFing & Processing

Sample Analysis

What’s up, doc?

Sample Analysis

Dig Decision

XRF is all well and good what is the decision?The DDT only calculates a dig decision when

all samples were available.

Dig Decision

Export - Daily

Export - Monthly

Export - Property

Thank you

John Digweed and Iain Allenof

Barrick Gold Corporation

Any Questions?

Patrick GibbonsSAIC, Bothell

patrick.gibbons@saic.com206-714-7353