gPick – Technical Database Solutions
Over the last 35 years GDD have created more than 120 data management applications for a wide variety of clients in the resources industry
GDD has more recently undertaken the development of a complete set of generic technical database solutions and data ‘distillation’ utilities that enable us to rapidly configure, deploy and populate new database applications
GDD can provide data migration, customisation, ongoing support and training for all of these systems.
These applications consist of three groups –
gPick Database Applications
The gPick applications are a series of data management systems that span every stage of the mining life cycle, across a range of commodities.
The primary application modules cover the various major activity areas of the mining life cycle, all of which integrate where required.
A number of stand-alone supporting modules are common to various application modules.
geoUte Data Assembly Utilities
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Preserving Original Data Values
Andy’s ‘Andy Tips – No. 27
One of the primary goals in recording and assembling data is (or should be) to preserve where possible the original observation, log or measurement data, so it can be reconciled back to related original documents, thereby providing a clear audit trail
Two common examples are the recording of drillhole logging depths, and original analysis or assay results.
In coal logging, depth corrections are applied based on the geophysical log; preserving the original ‘as logged’ depth is important for audit reasons
Similarly, recording the original reported values for assays is important for verification and other reasons…