Geometallurgy with Cancha: a two-day workshop
An in-person course through the Cancha geometallurgy workflow, from drill and test data to a defensible model ready for the mine plan.
Two days, in person. By invitation, in regions where our clients operate.
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The workshop runs in different regions through the year. These are the confirmed sessions.
The program
The workshop runs across two full days, in person, working through the Cancha geometallurgy workflow from raw drill and test data to a model ready for the mine plan. You work on your own laptop, with an instructor in the room. Day one builds the foundation; day two moves into predictive modelling, validation, and implementation.
Geometallurgical foundation and sample representivity
What geometallurgy is, how the data comes together in Cancha, and how to build and select a representative sample.
- What geometallurgy is, and how it links geology, testwork, and mine planning to improve results and reduce risk, at early-stage, late-stage, and in operations
- Key terminology: features, principal features, targets, and objectives
- Data sources and workflow: drilling, block models, shells, and metallurgical data, and how Cancha structures them in one project
- Importing data and setting up a Cancha project
- Data conditioning: cleaning nulls, duplicates, and inconsistent features
- Feature preparation and engineering: legends, groupings, and derived features
- Data integration: projecting data between drill holes, block models, shells, and metallurgical samples
- Visualisation and validation in the 3D viewer and strip logs
- Compliance and reporting for JORC, NI 43-101, and S-K 1300
- Defining a representative sample, principal features, and the focus case
- Sample requirements and design, then selecting samples with Cancha's AI selection tool
- Auditing representivity against the resource
Prediction modelling, validation, and implementation
Building and validating predictive models, then carrying them through to the mine plan.
- Advanced visualisation: scatter, matrix, and ratio charts
- Statistical domain identification with box plots, Fisher grouping, and pivot tables
- Filters and focus cases
- Principles of predictive modelling: targets, domains, and regression
- The five golden rules of model selection: explainable, significant, parsimonious, projectable, and contrast
- Generating models with Canchita and reviewing the rankings
- Reviewing and simplifying domains
- Validating models with the Williams plot to find outliers and high-leverage samples
- Bringing mineralogy into modelling: abundance, associations, texture, and liberation
- The implementation checklist and how the model meets the mine plan
- Implementation styles and geomet algorithms: block approach versus period approach
- Operational strategies: blending versus campaigning, and validating the result
- Closing the geomet loop: data, analysis, implementation, and validation
Who should attend
The workshop is written for practitioners rather than executives: anyone who touches drill data, test work, or mine planning day to day, from junior geologists through department leads. No prior Cancha experience is required.
Working with drill and resource data
Connecting test work to plant performance
Turning models into mine plans
Owning the workflow end to end
Attending
Transmin invites attendees directly, session by session, rather than opening general registration.
- Register your interest. We follow up with an invite for a session in your region.
- Confirm through your invite. An active Cancha subscription is your place on the course. The personal link in your invite confirms attendance and shares the venue.
- Come prepared. Once you're confirmed, we'll send everything you need to know ahead of the course.
Common questions
What is Cancha?
Cancha is Transmin's geometallurgy software. The workshop is a hands-on introduction to using it on real project data.
Who do I contact?
Use the form below to register your interest or ask a question about the workshop, and we'll follow up with you directly.
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