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With Grid, Tempest Minerals has created, along with their services partners Galt Mining Solutions, a first end-to-end automated exploration logging platform that integrates with their database, and stitches mapping and drilling data together, to create a consolidated database of all their exploration operations.
Grid supercharges Tempest Minerals’ mapping and exploration efforts, saving over 60% of their geologists’ time.
How did Grid & Tempest Mineral's collaboration come about?
Grid and Tempest Minerals have been collaborating since July 2021, a relationship that’s been founded on a mutual understanding that Digitization and mobile-first data management is the need of the hour in exploration for faster discovery and improved efficiencies.
Who's using Grid @ Tempest Minerals?
A single process view of how Grid integrates with Tempest Mineral’s workflow:
Grid’s mobile app is used to collect data from the field and from rig sites. The data is then sent via APIs to Tempest Minerals’ SQL Database, and from there, to a geological modelling software, which powers their entire exploration and drilling management.
Tempest Minerals used to rely on a number of independent software solutions that had to be patched together to achieve a somewhat workable solution. Grid combines and makes available all those separate functionalities in a single powerful and flexible tool:
Usage: Since the field data was not standardized, it first needed to be imported into a spreadsheet program and cleaned up.
Issues: Time-consuming, prone to input errors, no way to enforce standardization of terms or categories of data.
Since MS Excel is not a collaborative tool, version control and synchronization of data was also a concern.
Usage: ODK is an open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data.
Issues: Time-consuming, prone to input errors, no way to enforce standardizing of data.
ODK is open source, so it cost nothing to implement in terms of money, but there was a huge drain on geologists’ time due to the frequent data mismatch issues.
Usage: Since ODK did not have inbuilt options to connect with other software, Zapier was used to do this.
Issues: High cost, reduced reliability, time-consuming to transfer millions of records
Zapier is great for small and specific use cases, but in Tempest Minerals’ situation, where huge volumes of data were required
to be passed between sotwares, Zapier became slow and expensive to use.
Tempest Minerals' operations are contracted to their partner company, Galt Mining Solutions, whose geologists and field staff perform most of the operations.
Technical Libraries based on various international standards are maintained and referenced from Grid for all programs. This ensures that any fields or values that Tempest Minerals or Galt Mining Solutions staff use, are standard across the company, completely eliminating the need to sanitize the data that’s uploaded into the Grid application.
The ability to create, upload and edit a master sheet of reference terms and terminology which can be imported into any end user application created for Tempest Minerals, thus saving time and effort.
Field geologists use the Grid mobile application to collect and manage data on rocks, vegetation, outcrops, archaeology etc. as a
part of field work.
The Grid mobile application works completely offline, on any mobile device, enabling geologists to quickly add data en masse from the field, without expensive hardware, thus saving costs.
Resource Geologists use Grid’s companion mobile app in offline mode to enter all their drilling data including Lithologies, samples, orientations, structures and mineralization.
Data flows seamlessly across applications used by the entire company, thus speeding up decision makin processes, and giving an end-to-end visibility into the company’s operations and making the entire team more agile and proactive.
The collected inormation is visualized into charts and dashboard widgets for both geological reporting (like Strip log visualizations) and productivity and time tracking for field teams.
Customizable dashboards and visualizations improve productivity and speed up responsiveness o the company to a dynamic and changing environment, reducing reaction time and increasing monitoring capacity.
Galt Mining Solutions performs regular vehicle inspections. These inspections consist of going down specific checklists and ensuring that each step is correctly performed and the data on the vehicle being inspected is accurately and quickly captured, a task that Grid's mobile app is perfectly adept at completing.
Vehicle Inspections are fast, thorough and the results are available for immediate review.
Sampling is performed to ascertain the likely composition of mineral deposits underground, based on evidence on and beneath the surface of the Earth. Here’s how Grid helps Tempest Minerals perform their various sampling processes:
Total Samples Analyzed In Grid: 1800+
Metrics Tracked: Total samples collected, Daily logging
The Sampling & Assays process at Tempest Minerals involves drilling into the earth and extracting core samples that are then analyzed for mineral content. Grid speeds up this process immensely:
Total number of core samples analyzed in grid: 3,000+
Metrics Tracked: Daily drilling progress, Daily logging, Daily core cutting, # Core Samples collected
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