SGA 2025 Short Course: "Advanced Open-Source Tools for Mineral Predictive Mapping"

SGA 2025 Conference
Pre-Conference Short Course

Title:
"Advanced open-source tools for mineral predictive mapping applied to critical raw materials exploration and assessment”

Date and Place:
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Full day short course: 8:00 AM – 4:45 PM with breaks

Description:
In the first part of the short course, a short review will be provided about the concept of mineral predictive mapping. Following up, different machine learning algorithms are being presented and discussed on how they may be used for mineral predictive mapping.
The second main part of the short course is strongly focusing on the practical hands-on-training for a newly developed open source tool for mineral predictive mapping (MPM) for exploration and assessment of critical raw materials called “EIS” – Exploration Information System.
In the third and final part, new digital tool developments for critical raw materials assessment are showcased and demonstrated, being introduced through CriticalMAAS – Critical Mineral Assessments with AI Support: “Polymer” and “StatMaGIC”.
All demonstrated software tools are open-source and will be able to run on the computer of the participants. Participants are required to bring their own laptop running in Windows 10 environment with administrator rights to be able to install and run the software tools. Before the short course, the installation packages will be provided together with tutorial data for the hands-on training.

Speakers:
Bijal Chudasama, GTK
Andreas Knobloch, Beak Consultants GmbH
Ina Storch, Beak Consultants GmbH
Joshua Coyan, U.S.G.S.
Erick Vega, MTRI
Justin Gawrilow, JATAWARE

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