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Surpac Training: Database Creation

The document discusses geologic databases and their importance for block modeling. It explains that a geologic database contains essential drillhole data organized into tables for collar, lithology, assay, and survey information. It stresses that the quality of the block model depends on properly verifying and validating the data in the geologic database tables.

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Surpac Training: Database Creation

The document discusses geologic databases and their importance for block modeling. It explains that a geologic database contains essential drillhole data organized into tables for collar, lithology, assay, and survey information. It stresses that the quality of the block model depends on properly verifying and validating the data in the geologic database tables.

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Angilhiza Marie Francisco
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SURPAC

Geologic database, digitizing, block modelling


Geologic database
Organized collection of geologic data

• Header/Collar – contains coordinates of the drillholes


• Lithology/Geology – contains rocktypes
• Assay – contains assay grades
• Survey – contains direction of drillholes
Your block model will only be as good as your
geologic database
Verify and validate your data
• Field verification
• Core logging
• Database validation
Verify and validate your data
Field verification
Core logging
• Database validation

• Header/Collar – contains coordinates of the drillholes


• Lithology/Geology – contains rocktypes
• Assay – contains assay grades
• Survey – contains direction of drillholes
Exercise!

Verify and validate your data

drillholes_training.xlsx
Save your validated data (csv)
collar.csv
survey.csv
geology.csv
assay.csv
SURPAC
Database
>Open/New
-database name
-calculated
-enter optional tables (table type: interval)
Geologic database
Mandatory Tables
Collar
Survey
Translation table (surpac’s default)

Optional Tables
Assay
Geology
Stylize table (surpac’s default)
SURPAC
Database
>Open/New
-database name
-calculated
-enter optional tables (table type: interval)
-define all fields for all tables
SURPAC
Database
>Import data
-map field name and column
-load database table from text files
choose file and (Ins/Upd)

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