EXPLORATION TARGETING IN A BUSINESS CONTEXT

This two-day course provides an overview of exploration targeting from a business perspective, as well as building the confidence of participants in how to approach the technical challenges of targeting. Topics covered include impacts of corporate strategy and risk tolerance on exploration strategy; mineral deposit models versus mineral systems; how to translate understanding of a deposit style into mappable criteria for target generation; how to rank and prioritize targets; different approaches to mineral potential mapping and prospectivity analysis including different empirical and conceptual methods highlighting their strengths and weaknesses; terrane endowment and maturity; and human behaviour and its impact on exploration targeting. Principles in the course will be reinforced through hands on exercises and GIS-based examples.