Master Technical Data Management

Your master technical data underpins every aspect of the analysis, evaluation, decision making and reporting work related to your resource projects

GDD can help you with all of them –

  • Data environment reviews – Review, structure and implement a sound data collection, management and analysis file system environment
  • Data ‘distillation’ and integration – GDD’s term for the taming and reorganisation of unruly existing data collections
  • Database reviews and audits – Review and clean-up of current database systems
  • Database implementation – Install and commission new database systems and supporting data management environment
  • Standards and procedures – Data management rules and guidelines to help keep things both accurate and consistent

GDD can guide you through the entire data identification, assembly and management process for ALL of your technical data

  • Primary technical data – the conventional alphanumeric project data
  • Secondary data – photos, images, other multi-media or georeferenced maps directly related to primary data items
  • Tertiary or metadata files – those lab certificates, consultant reports and other files that support and verify the primary and secondary data

GDD can also show you how to link them in your database so you have instant access to all of these related data objects.

  • Not important? … You’ve got to be JORCing!

Data Distillation

Identify the key technical data within the sometimes chaotic large collections of generated and inherited or externally acquired data and supporting files.

And do this in a methodical, documented and auditable manner

GDD are experts in unravelling large fragmented data sets

Our significant experience, and our specialised geoUte data discovery and assembly tools enable us to rapidly identify, assemble and integrate the buried master technical data.

      • Existing data
        • Historical data collections
        • Existing current project data
      • Data ‘distillation’
        • Cataloguing
        • Identification of master technical data and related secondary data and supporting files
        • Clean up and segregate / reorganise

Data Integration

Taking the identified ‘distilled’ technical data objects, cataloguing, comparing and integrating the various data type sets into an organised set of technical data master files, ready for migration into your database

      • Assembly and integration of disparate data sets into your master working data set

Data Validation and Integrity Checking

GDD can show you how to check the data once it’s assembled for loading into the database,

We can also show you how to schedule regular integrity checks once it’s in there, as well as produce full test / result reports to accompany the data sets used for resource and reserve estimation exercises for example

Technical Data System Reviews

Reviews and audits of the technical data environment and system files looking at the –

  • Technical data system environment
  • Folder and file organisation
  • Data management process and data flows and system file management
  • Technical data status
  • Standards and procedures in place to manage these aspects

Database Management Systems

Having created and commissioned over 100 technical database systems, GDD can assist with –

  • Existing database reviews and audits
  • Database clean-ups, upgrades and optimisation
  • Data assembly and migration

Database Management System Implementation

We can also implement and commission new technical database systems, by –

  • Implementation and data migration into one of GDD’s gPick resources databases
  • Development of a custom database system, using GDD’s gNeric database libraries to provide a broad range of generic capabilities

Standards and Procedures

GDD can help you establish technical data management standards and procedures for, for example –

  • Master resource and project technical data collection, validation and ongoing management
  • Geological exploration, logging, sampling and analysis processes
  • Mining processes and activities such as grade control sampling, analysis, QA/QC reporting and reconciliation

We can also help you establish some technical data governance guidelines; the standards and procedures for your standards and procedures….

Database and Data Management Application Development

GDD can also provide application systems for specific requirements. This development can be undertaken using a prototyping approach, or through the development of a formal specification.

Specifically we can assist with:

    • Analysis and design of entity-wide database management systems.
    • Evaluation and recommendation of proprietary software for the technical data environments
    • Systems analysis, design and installation of custom software.
    • Evaluation and recommendation, installation and administration of computing and peripheral hardware, as part of new systems implementation.
    • Evaluation, enhancement, modification and conversion of existing software
    • Extraction, validation, conversion and transfer of existing data to new systems
    • User and technical documentation of systems
    • User training in both custom application software and proprietary systems.

Examples include –

    • Surface and drillhole database management systems
    • Grade control database systems
    • Reserves block model database systems
    • Open pit and underground production reporting systems
    • Maintenance management systems
    • Systems administration management tools