Technical
Derisk staff have compiled a series of short technical notes covering a diverse range of topics relevant to the mineral industry. Please take a moment to browse through these notes and contact us if you would like more information.
What is safety and how is it achieved?
Derisk principal mining consultant Mal Dorricott defines safety as an outcome that is achieved when an activity is completed or a process operates without harm to the assets involved in that activity or process.
Will innovation make existing drilling, geological logging and sampling methods redundant?
Derisk Director and Principal Geologist, Mark Berry, recently gave a thought-provoking presentation ‘Will innovation make existing drilling, geological logging and sampling methods redundant?’ to the Australian Drilling Industry Association (ADIA) 2017 annual conference.
References
Ore Reserve risks – Do decision makers really understand the principal source of uncertainty? (refereed extended abstract).
Berry, M. and Dorricott, M., 2025. Presented at 9th International Conference on Geology and Mine Planning, Santiago (Gecamin).
Why QA/QC is not just about sampling and analysis (non-refereed presentation).
Berry, M., 2024. Presented at QA/QC for Exploration and Mining (The AIG).
Financial analysis: Closing the loop in valuing mining geology (refereed technical paper).
Collier, P., Sommerville, B. and Berry, M., 2019. In proceedings of Mining Geology Conference 2019, pp 237–252 (The AusIMM).
Geological uncertainty – A key challenge for effective life-of-mine planning (refereed technical paper).
Berry, M., 2018. In proceedings of From Start to Finish: A Life-of-Mine Perspective Conference, pp 27–32 (The AusIMM).
Australian drilling trends: Boom to bust and beyond (lightly refereed extended abstract).
Berry, M., 2017. In proceedings of Drilling for Geology II Conference 2017, pp 3–8 (The AIG).
Benchmarking – Does it have a role in improving the performance of mining geology? (refereed technical paper)
Berry, M., 2014. In proceedings of Mining Geology Conference 2014, pp 361–366 (The AusIMM).
The importance of understanding uncertainty and risk associated with all geological inputs to Ore Reserves (refereed technical paper)
Berry, M., 2014. In Monograph 30: Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation – The AusIMM Guide to Good Practice Second Edition, pp 585-592 (The AusIMM).