thank you for joining me today my name's Steve law I'm a senior geologist with sequent based in the Perth office my background is in with osteology and mining geology and today we'll take you through the new leapfrog edge resource module before we go into the software demonstration I just like to present a brief presentation talking about when edge can benefit your you and how it fits into our sequence workflows secret works across all different sectors today we'll be concentrating on the mining and mineral sector which basically uses leapfrog do we also have leapfrog geothermal for the energy market and recently edge was introduced there as an option as well and we have in civil and environmental sector we have leapfrog works at this stage it cannot be used with leapfrog works most of you are familiar with leapfrog do that live frog do and now edge a part of a whole ecosystem ah for the secret the basic building blocks are leapfrog do the frog works and live from geothermal and live frog edge is not a standalone option it is a module within leapfrog geo and they prop geothermal and it is the main engine used by geologists and modelers to produce the 3d models sitting above that now we have sequence central the desert a system that helps organize our projects and is a fantastic tool for people to share the same projects across different parts of their organization at the same time and it's so useful for collaborating between especially different locations people can have access to just looking at the model or they can have access to working with the model sitting above that again is lit review some of you may have been familiar with leapfrog viewer which has been available for quite some time but that one requires you to download the software onto your desk the croc view is a browser-based version of this and enables you to share your projects in the 3d environment simply by people having a look at a browser still secure linkages to share so that only the people you wish to see the information can do so but it also has some great tools for sharing and collaboration we're going to focus today on the frog edge but I will be using central as the platform to access the project so you'll have an idea of how it looks and towards the end of the webinar I will just give a brief mention on how you can restructure the way you manage your projects if you're using edge ngo at the same time and you have central available main reasons why we might want to consider using edge it has all the same capabilities or efficiencies and advantages that live frog di has some of these include time efficiency it is not a difficult program to learn to use as you'll see today after the demonstration it has a quite intuitive interface and workflow and as always initial models can take time to build up having to go through all this standard resource estimation steps that we need to follow but the time efficiency really comes in after the original model and when you're working with updates because everything is all automatically linked to your data to your geological model then the associated block models will update as well as all the validation reports and subsequent resource reporting tools integration is a major importance so rather than having to jump in and out of various software's to do the different aspects of a resource estimation you can it's all done in the one spot you don't have to worry about conventions from when you transfer say a very graham from one package to another it's all inbuilt and ready to go and then most significant benefit is the visualization we've carried through that leaf frog geovisualization tools and benefits to edge so that all parts of the estimation process you are able to see what's happening with your data in the 3d scene and vice versa as you fill in different forms and table for gates we still go through the standard process that we use for any resource estimation so with the underlying geology and the geology model is extremely important as always and we can look at out compositing our exploratory data analysis very ography actual estimation parameters and then that eventual value but haven't rather than having to work in a continuously linear workflow and sometimes we do get as resource geologists lost in the numbers we were always with leapfrog age India together keeping them geology at the forefront as we work through the process as we can easily step backwards and forwards between the model and what we're trying to achieve with the estimate and this is done in a very visual way ah which helps us work through the whole process today in a moment we are going to least briefly cover all of these different steps so I'm going to try and show you the entire workflow from beginning to end I won't be going into some of the finer details of how you need to do this and at the end of the presentation I'll show you how to be able to have access to learning some more about how edge works is in which people are currently using edge so it took about three years of development and it was first released in 2008 2017 since that time it's been undergoing continuous improvement and we've had a few people quite a few people start to use it now some of the key areas it's being used in early evaluation ordering resource in field really so it's great even with sparse data of training able to generate results at least give you a an idea of what your resource may be in the future with the resource infill drilling we've had some clients use it as they actually do the drilling they import the results as they come in and they get an impression of how the block model may change and then they can modify their drilling program a little if they find that one area of the resource isn't really changing no matter how many holes you put into it but it might unexpectedly point to some other open areas it's rather than having the wait a few months after you've done all the data input and the geological modeling you can get some at least early ideas during the drilling another area with people are using it in is grain control so this is where the dynamic factor oh it is great because it's already linked to the data base and the geological model as soon as the new data goes in the block model will update and you'll get instant reports on how things are changing and then it is being used in for standard press or estimation and reportable resources moment it's been used in other areas of the world where we've got quite a few ni 43-101 reports now started to use edge as fundamental software that they're doing they're reporting on so I will now go into the our software presentation okay so what we're looking at here is a screenshot of what central looks like so I have just downloaded from a central server the model that we're going to be working with today what central does is shows you it basically maintains a coffee of all projects so since the very first time that I started working on this project and working on either a geological model section of it or the estimation it's storing the results so that at any time we can go backwards and see what happens say six months or a year ago when I want this is the most recent project the one at the top here I can download that which I've already done that downloads are copied directly to your computer so this is how we can have multiple users using the same project whereas standard live frog do that's not possible and then people can work on different aspects say the theology model the estimation or even the fault modeling and then does take some management on making sure all those things get put back together again so I'm gonna open up this project here we're going to be working with a fairly simple model today just so that we can get the key aspects of edge across to you so what we're looking at is a simple set of drill holes we've got acid data we've got copper data in this instance a simple geological bottle has been made up now ideally edge the idea is that you do have a geological model within the same project or accessible via central but you can use edge directly on imported meshes so if you've got a wireframe that you've bought in from another software so the domain has been done somewhere else you can still import that into the meshes folder of leapfrog and run the estimation purely on those as long as you've got the drill hole data base that you need to use and some kind of solid volume then you will be able to run an edge estimate we have various tools for understanding our data prior to starting the estimation so running an exploratory data analysis so we can do this at different levels we can do it at the database level so for instance if I want to know a little bit about my copper data up here I right click I can look at my statistics and because we're just looking at a single element within a table it just shows us a histogram these can be detached and as long as I have that information visible in the scene you'll see that if I highlight part of the histogram for instance I would like to know where these higher values are then that data is interactive with the 3d scene so any part of the histogram that we highlight the corresponding intervals will show up in the 3d scene so that's one way of understanding that this spatial distribution of our data this is available through all of our graphs um we have other ways of looking at our data in terms of just visualizing the information as well as fixed radius so we're basically just looking at a solid cylinder if we've turned on this little pink button here we can go back to just traces or we can make the line more solid and we can change the size of that the other alternative is we can use the other elements that are available within our table so in this instance we've got gold as well we can display by copper colors but by the radius of the gold content as well as that we also have graphic capability so underneath your survey table on the left-hand side we have drillhole graphs if we drag them in you can see here that we can display any of we can look at gold we can scale it so that the bars will show up just so that in 3d there and we can offset so if we have footer cylinder on we can move it a little bit away from the draw all traces snow into we have a look in section you can see that we've got the the graphs on the side copper despite all size color and the discourse I'd done by a scale if we're using merge tables where we may have merged together mythology with a siddharta so in this case I've got some lithology and si data grouped together well then this will give us access to some other graphing features one of the most useful ones is the box plot so we tell it we need to have a numeric column we need a categorical column in this case it's rock and when we can see a box for showing the information so this is a great way looking at new data sets if you've got a lot of codes you know I'm familiar with they might quickly be able to determine which of the most important codes for lighting the essays back to the geology if you want to just get the numeric information out of their statistics there is a table of statistics and you can see that the means etc arm for all that data and anything that's available within those tables will now move more into edge so the way to know whether you have access to edge it's whether or not you have this estimation folder present in your project if you just have leapfrog do it on your license then that estimation folder will not show but once you have edge activated it will and everything that we need to do to set up edge parameters has done inside this estimation folder all the results they are viewed by the block models if someone has used edge and created a tie block model you do not need an edge license to view the results of that so the next time you work from that project even if a.g isn't available you will still be able to look at the bottom model results and generally in that instance the estimation fold will have a little restricted sign standing next to it okay the whole premise of using edge is working on a domain by domain basis so where you build up your edges you right-click and you basically create a new domain estimation from there you've basically you pick out your domain so this shows here that it can be accessed either from anything that's within the Punishers folder so if you've got a Wi-Fi from elsewhere just put it in here and you can access it in this instance the blue meshes mean that these are being accessed from a different project with instantly frogs sequence central also any volumes within your geological models so in this case it's the output volumes but we can also use solids like intrusions or veins from within the surface chronology as well you can also access any of the great shells we may have generated from a numeric model so all of these things are available to choose from I'm just going to pick out this early tie right again in terms of the SI data its sourcing anything that's within your geological database so you've got your raw data you've got any data that you've made a composite far from at the database level merge tables and we can also use point data within an estimate as well so in this instance I'm not going to composite at this level I'm going to do it later on we have two options for compositing you can either do the compositing prior to running the estimation so that's setting it up under the database under the composites folder and running our standard numeric opposite tools ah or we can confess it on the fly which is what I'm going to show you today I've used copper percent and this is where we can choose to use compositing here at this stage it is usually always within a boundary so it is going to honor the boundaries of the particular domain that you're working with and then we have our standard compositing tools for determining what we're going to do with the little pieces at the end so we can either discard add to the previous interval at the end of the whole or distribute it across equally across the whole domain you can try different ways to see how sensitive your data is to compositing we always end up with a default name at this stage and this becomes the name for the estimation folder this can be edited if you're needing to export into other block model safe take your block model from leapfrog and place it into one of the other software packages the naming here will need to align more with what that packets will its sense so leapfrog doesn't care about sentences and commas etc but if you've got a software that can't handle more than six letter variables then you'd need to restrict this to six letters so make it a lot easier to export later on okay I'm not going to keep that one this is just to show how it's made once we've got a estimation domain set up it basically creates a new little folder with all of these components below it we can see it's similar to the way a geological model works in leap from Geo so this is a little self-contained working area we have the domain so we can drag that over and stayed away we can see okay that's the domain that we're working with what it does and it takes to the drill hole values or the composit values and it turns them into point values so now we're just looking at data comes from confined to the domain that we chose and we can still use statistic tools now on this one and this will give us domain statistics so we'll go to mr. Graham so we can see here that we've got a nice fairly normal looking histogram here again this is interactive so as we've picked the higher parts of the histogram it'll show us where they are on the on the scene and so in the values are shown in down below so it shows you it links to where they are coming from so we can see that these things are coming from the copper percent that come through here so as always those linkages that you can follow back to find out where the data is actually coming from spatial modeling is done is our wording here for very ography so have a look at that in a moment we now have a variable orientation functionality and sis like locally varying orientation so this is what the search ellipse actually changes relative to a particular guiding mesh so if you've got for example a and undulating layer then still restricted to a very aground in sort of global trend of that but as we search for our samples it will vary the orientation of that search ellipse and taking into account the underlying very grim and you potentially have better selection of samples we'll have a look at that a little bit later sample geometry is our D clustering and then the driving force of this folder is the estimations folder which is where we set up all the parameters for inverse distance creaking and nearest neighbor is all available we'll have a quick look at very on fee so within the spatial models folder you can have as many very grand models as you like so that you can test different variant parameters so have a look at this one let's see here little okay so we work we use fairly standard sort of very ography modeling tools so we have one radial map now this is not in any set direction in terms of I'm not looking at strike or dip or dip azimuth necessarily it's looking in the plane of best content and we can help that this set up right from the beginning within Xero itself so if I just move this across receipt I'm just gonna copy this one first I don't destroy it okay so I'm just going to go into the copy so we can see how this relates to as soon as we open up the very ground we can see the corresponding ellipse in the 3d scene so we can have our data open we can have our domain up we can see how the ellipses relative to what we're trying to work with so if we can't accidentally rotate things in 90 degrees to the way we really wanted to go we have three components to here we have this left hand side we work out the parameters that we need to produce the experimental very gram so each of these graphs can be looked at individually and we can set that lag distances the number of lags angular tolerances band widths etc to basically get a set of points that hopefully we'll be able to model the actual modeling side of things is done up here in the top part and we can either model to bra variants or we can standardize that to one and the cells everything gets normalized to one at this stage we can use two models plus the Nugget to define the model curves we do have in terms of experimental Vera Graham's we have very graham and we have the correlogram and then pairwise as well so we are working on normal scores transforms and the prototype is about ready in testing so we're hoping to have that available in October this year so you'll be able to apply a transform to your data and then do a normal scores vary Graham which helped a lot intimacy in gold and some of those other elements so at the moment though were just very graham is usually the one I would use set up your parameters to try and get the these if I change this to say 20 you'll see that the lower axis will go out to a thousand we can see our data points fall apart after eight hundred six hundred meters so I'm not too interested on what's going on past there so it takes a little bit of playing around sometimes to get this to what we want to look like in terms of the radial plot often what we can do as a starting point is if we're for instance looking at this data and we think that the planar continuity is running down through that way that's the strike looking dip just for the sake of it maybe the dips this way we can set a plane and then back in here we can go sit from plane so whatever the last plane was that was in the 3d scene we can set that this will change as we move this around we will see my lips off as we move this around you'll see that the ellipse is moving in the 3d scene as well though this tends to be just changing the pitch mark up here because we've already set the different debasement by our plane as we change any of these things in here I'm going to turn this one off for a sec you see that as we change I can click on the green one and you see that that's changing our semi minor direction the blue one is our minor direction and the other one there it is now reddish brown color is our major direction if we're looking in our access aligned part with these three as we move any of these tools you see that that is changing the ellipse so you'll always know how these graphs relate to 3d scene so because this listen direction of continuity doesn't necessarily mean that this is strike and this is down dip this could be down dip with the plans Direction being continuous and strike and it would be somewhere else so you can always see what's going on as soon as you get to doing it added the second structure so it's another spherical you can't click on the ellipse to drag it around so sort of sort that out when you've just got one structure and then the ellipse always shows the ranges of the second structure first time that you go into this you actually need to add a down hole very Graham so under this button here you would add and then you would add the down hole very grim in this case we've already got one it's not a very good one for this particular data but this is where you can set it you can set it either manually using slider or you can just manually type in the numbers up in here any of these numbers can be manually changed and adjust that so I would normally make sure that these things add up to one you can rename it up in here and so you can have try a few different types of very very grand models if you're not quite sure which one to use it's going to discard that one d clustering I won't touched on this on too much basically we do a new to clustering object and if I'm looking at my data I can see here I have to set a cell size effectively so for instance most of my data here is quite widely spaced I might be looking at if I look at 120 120 120 it shows me the what data I'm getting within my cell size we've got ellipsoid and cuboid cuboid is effectively exactly the same as cell D clustering in other softwares we have got this overlapping window option which is good to use it tends to smooth out arms steps that can occur in cells at the edges of the cells that you're using you can get artifacts this helps to clear these away and may help you get photographs we don't have an optimizing function at this stage but the easy way to go is for instance I've done that one at 120 120 meter spaces and then I would just copy that one and I could change that one side 180 and then we can right click on there look at the properties and it'll show us what out the clustered mean is so we've got he's naive mean of 1.08 and 1.06 for the custard mean at one hundred and twenty meters cell size and for the 180 meter cell size it's one point zero five to three so not that much difference so we can see that there's a little bit of clustering happening in here but it's not having a huge impact on the naive me so that's just some information we can take forward with us when we try to validate our block model we can apply these the clustering objects directly to an inverse distance estimation that's optional whether you wish to do that or not and all it's doing is assigning some D clustering weights to the samples to apply during the estimation the real powerhouse of the AIDS here though is in the estimation folder so this is where we set up either a new inverse distance estimator so we come up with the interference of sweary sites into assistance squared cubed etc if we have a disgusting object available we can choose to use it here the ellipsoid is set here so this is in this case I'm just going to match one of the other searches that up set up before but you can change this to whatever different strike that you wish and this is where you can define how far you want to look we have standard search type limiters so we've got obviously a minimum and maximum number of samples we have outlier restriction availability which is where if for instance you've got scattered very high grades a long way away from the box you're estimating you can turn these down so for instance if I look back here I've got two by 200 by 60 meter search so if I put in 50 here it's saying if I reach 50% of that search then any samples beyond that that are greater than 5% in this instance will be cut effectively to 5% so it's a way of clamping information that's being sourced from a long way away from your block I would only have it useless usually on second or third passes but it is available we have sector so we have quadrant and octant searching where we can define the number of samples per octant and this can help this is another way of the clustering data we could use for inverse distance or even in cream even though it creaking inherently is to clustering it for us and then we have to hold a meeting so this is where you can limit the maximum number of samples you want to use per true hull bearing in mind all these things tie together so when you use this you have to be aware of what you're doing with your minimums samples outputs this is where edge varies from other software's usually when you're defining a block model elsewhere you need to set up a whole heap of different variable names to store things in the block model when edge works it basically stores the grade variable that is the name here but if we want to store things like that rich distance the samples number of samples we just tick those boxes and they will automatically be stored so that you don't have to make up any variable names for all those different things the only other time we haven't touched on is this value clipping and this is our top cutting so again you can use top cutting prior to bringing the data in so if it's you've got a complex workflow for that you can set that composite files do the top cutting on those beforehand and then you'll just use those top cut composite files and not use this tab at all but if you within particular divides and you can set variable top cut per domain this is one area where you can do it just stick that on put in whatever the top cut values that you wanted to use and it will do that you don't have to use a lot of bounties don't wish so that's another area where you can apply that so I'm just going to turn that off what I've got here is I've already set up a few different estimators now so I've got I've got some inverse distance estimators and I've got ordinary creaking estimators that are using exactly the same search parameters that they're just creating so then I can compare invest distance versus creaking in my end result I can see here that I've got past one and past two so I'm going to open up the creaking once that we can have a look quickly at how our creaking differs from the inverse distance estimator and I can open bow for this up at the same time so on the interpolant here is choosing ordinary creaking but you do have the option of using simple creaking and if you do simple kriging you just need to type in the mean value you wanted to use discretization parameters are set up here and the very grave you wish to use because we only have one in this particular folder that's the only one I can see but if you have a few available you choose the one that you want to have a look at if you've forgotten what that very grave looks like then you can just view it and that'll show you what your ellipses looking like little tip to your data again if we have a look at the ellipsoid tab this has been set to the correct very grand model so in the ordinary Creegan so I'm looking up here I've used this very agreement here that will then set up the correct art direction you can change the maximum minimum intermediate and minimum directions so if you want to start off with that so 2/3 of the maximum range of your Vera Graham and then on subsequent passes in this case on my second pass I've just the distances here and then in the search parameters I've used for samples and 20 maximum with a drill hole limit but I've reduced a number of minimum samples to use on the second search and sometimes they haven't even removed that drill hole limit and that would be the second search I'm going to use let's cancel this one it turned anything so we have a series of estimators set up in through here one another functionality we have then is how do I combine two passes together so at the moment I can look at the results of past one and I can look at the results of past two but I want to be able to see the combined so back at the top level we can make new combined estimators if you're used to using merge tables in leapfrog geo it's a very similar approach you basically select the estimators you want to join together so I wanted to look join inverse distance pass one with inverse distance past two you can give it a name and it will automatically store the domain and the estimator number so that you can display what blocks were estimated on the second pass again you can uncheck these if you wish but you can also store average distance for the combined estimator and say number of samples as well so all of these things can be ticked on and off at any time if you don't do it when you first make it you can just come back later on and open it and just change the tick boxes and tick the month you can see here that we can store things such as creating variants creating efficiency slope of regression etc so I think of the estimation folder as your parameter file this is where you set up all these different parameters I've just set one up for my copper you don't have to go through this whole process from start for every Ingle domain and every single element once i've got one for copper i can copy that entire folder and simply change it over to gold for instance in this case and go okay it will then set up all the same estimators with the same parameters we would obviously need to go in and edit our very graham because it won't be the same but really that's all we probably need to do you might make a few tweaks underneath the estimators in here as you can see here that most some have change their name because I changed the names earlier on I do need to edit these so I don't need to open this up and just change the name there to au so if we change from the default values than the names do need to be changed so it's not difficult to set up multiple folders we can set up some folders so that you could group things by domain or by element so if you've got three domains but five different elements you could set up a domain subfolder and put all the different estimates underneath there okay I do have another one to set up here which is called golden Regulus for the term a quick look at that one because that will help us with our I've explained variable orientation so I bring in the domain basically this model had a Regulus that's just basically draping over a mountain and in that we had some gold values a fair few on the decide but not very many on the other side so I want the estimate to have at least a go to see whether it can curve around this this shape so we still set up the very graham in the normal way so the very Graham restricted to one direction oops so if we have a look the resultant Vera Graham looks like this so it's still within that one plane so we this is not unfolding what we're doing with it with the variable orientation so you're still restricted to a very graham in the best orientation that works for your data however we then set up a new variable orientation and what we do is we get it to follow a mesh if we're working with vanes we can actually pick the vein that we want it to follow and it'll use the hanging wall and for all surfaces of those veins if we've got a stratigraphic sequence modeled we could use that or we can use any other mesh that we might have in our meshes folder so if you've got a particular warping that you want to follow you would create a mesh first put it into that folder and then we can use that one it's very similar to the functionality of structural trends in leapfrog Geo let's cancel that one it's only the one that we've got it's just open this one see you again you can edit these so I'm using the actual regolith surface which was a mesh that I'd stored in Central from somewhere I'm using the very model that I've made for that and then we can visualize that either fire an existing block model or we can just set up a custom grid let's try 20 meters for 20 meters and I haven't got a very big set extent so are you something a little bit smaller and we can visually get an idea of what that's going to look like so but that shows us all these little discs and if we have a look in section you can see that this is now instead of the when we do the sample selection only being able to follow the Varia Graham I'll just bring that one off again so instead of only being able to use this size ellipse it'll take these parameters and then rotate them into this orientation so if there were samples in this area here it will be able to find them rather than going this way and then we apply this variable orientation later on at the estimator so I'll open this up this is a Creegan estimator so underneath the ellipsoid basically it overrides the orientation of the very ground and we'll use this variable orientation and that's all it does to to imply apply this to the the estimate so that's how we set up all our parameters so the next most important part is how do we visualize this and get it to run effectively this is all done under the block models we have two types of block models so we have regular block models which is just standard blocks all we have sub block models if I make a new sub block model all I'm defining at this stage is the shape of it and the block size so you can see here I can assign a parent block size and I can assign sub blocks so in this case it's four hundred divided by four so that would be 100 meters sub blocks so you can see that's the parent block size and this is that sub block size we do have a variable height option so this is handy for some horizontal systems where you might want to have just one block height per team or domain so that can be easier and it works quite well sub block models can be rotated in different azimuth if you wish so I'm just going to open up the one that we've already defined so again at any time you can go back and make changes to this this definition I'm just going to bring in our data again so we can see it relative to that data there we go so you can see it shows us the block size so I've just got 10 meter pair of blocks with 2 meter sub blocks because my devayne there's a fairly sister blog but I didn't have to get too detailed around the edges here these two tabs are the critical ones so we have sub blocking triggers so this is what are we so blocking on so we are usually some locking on our geological model in this case I am just so blocking on the mesh of my only tie right and I'm so blocking on my regular I'm also some blocking on some stop shapes we'll come back to that later the evaluations is the basically how we run the estimate anything that we want to display inside the lit up model needs to be brought across from the left-hand side over to the right so I want to be able to see the results of my krieg regulus gold with wanna see both passes of my inverse distance my creaking but I also want to see the combined results so all these things are just originally that was sitting over here on the right left and you just bring them across to the right you can shift these around any time I will often create a block model with all these separate passes do my validation etc from there for my final reporting model we'll just have the combined estimators in it and it makes it a little bit tinier if you bring in a geological model in this case so I can bring across my whole geological model and that basically Flags my geology ready to be used and display so anything that's on the right will be displayed later on and we can flag via sun block centroids or by parent blocks entrance the categorical type can always default to sub block centroids up until version four point five point one you could only do it by parent block centroids for numeric estimators but now it's four point five point one that just came out you can then use sub block centroids on numeric items as well I'm just gonna cancel that because I don't want to actually change my results to view what's happening so there's no Run button or anything like that as soon as you've put them onto the evaluations it's run you can come back to that at any time you can either just open up the whole block model and go to your evaluations tab or you can just right click and go ov al u Asians and do the same thing the key thing is that if you do something up in the estimation folder and make a new domain estimation or change anything here you then make sure you go back to the block model and evaluate that new item that you just created they don't automatically link through to look at our data they just drag the entire sub model into the scene and we can then look at everything that we've told that the store is now stored in through here so if I want to look at my universe distance cover that will show me the results from past one if I wanted to see the part results from past two I could see them as well so what's happening and then the combined estimator which is the one we really want to look at is this one here so the combined estimators will basically allow you to look at all your domains at once if you've had five different domains and they're all discrete if you look at them individually as is then you'll just see one at a time but the combined ones will let you join them all together so you'll see multiple domains at once this status button comes in for each one and it basically shows you what has been estimated and what has not so within this domain the white flocks are estimated but the purple blocks are not because they don't meet the parameters that we've asked to look at so one useful tool it's great for trying to understand what's going on is the block interrogator tool if we click on any of these blocks I'm just gonna take that away well I've got in the scene at the moment is the block model that I bought in I click on any one of these blocks it will show me a big list of what's there but you'll see here that there is this interrogate estimator it will show me the ellipse that's been used to the estimate around that block and we can filter the block model with this little button here and I usually just turn that flips down a little bit what it does is it shows me the samples that have been used for estimating this block I'll just turn off the search completely so under this filter here it says it's found a he found 78 samples but it's only used ten if there is a problem for instance over here it shows you the weights that have been used it shows you the distances you can sort so you can see that we're varying from 68 meters to 142 meters you stare as a sample that was quite high grade and it was a long distance you might be able to use that say or maybe I want to use some clamping in here if we've got negative weights it will show them up as red in the weights column and you can investigate what's going on with those you can directly go to the estimator so if it is past one copper that we're interested in might be the creeping one that you want to look at you can open it directly up open estimator and it'll take you back to that spot and then you can change some of these parameters you might reduce your number of samples put in a selection and little update straightaway and you can test to see what is happening it's handy for if you've getting an unexpected area of high grade it'll show you where those high grades are coming from and you can choose to change the parameters a little to see if you can filter them out if it's not appropriate we'll change the parameters in some other way so so either by clicking on a block and hitting the interrogate estimator or if you right-click on the block model you can go directly to it from that option as well see that right clicking on the block model gives us a few other items as well we've got calculations and filters we're trying to get away from using macros as such so but we have a lot of functionality in terms of building up calculations and things that we can use in the block model itself we have three different types of item we have variables so this is something like metal price like gold price or silver price which you can predefined a variable can be used in a calculation later on you just cannot visualize that in the block model then there are two types of calculation there's a numeric calculation and a categorical basically if the answer is a number it's numeric if the answer is a word it's a category and then we have filters filters face as same as query filters and live from Geo so you can see here down in the Rye when I'm viewing my model you've got some filtering happening down in here so you can filter by just values so if I want to see just where is everything say above three percent and apply that it'll just filter those blocks out for me but if I need something a little bit more advanced like a combination of greater than three percent copper and greater than 5 grams gold then I can build these filters over here so I could go ID combined greater than three and we've got syntax helpers absolute spot on the screen ah and some other variable just do anything for me it's good that one listen one and that will make that filter and then that will be available in the drop-down list I've just called it a filter only here it's probably not gonna display anything that's a couple of blocks I've been the regolith so if I turn that filter off comes back to there so that's how you do query filters now I've set up a couple of filters here just getting our calculation sister get an idea so we've got when we're doing reporting later on it does not like having empty blocks anywhere in the model so this is one way of getting rid of them you can either do a final pass in his actual searches and say you know use one sample and make sure that you're getting some sort of value within your blocks or this is a way of defining default values two blocks that have an estimated letter sort of add around the edges so I'm basically here if I've got a result for the inverse distance combined then use it otherwise use 0.1 I've done the same for a creaking estimate as well this is another way we can assign like SD by domain if we don't have enough information to actually estimate SG so I could put SD in here I can insert an if statement if statements are quite handy and every item that's available within the flock model to use within a calculation shows up over here on the right and then this is just syntax help if you need it so I'm saying that if if for instance my early died right sorry around I'm saying if my geological model equals early died right then ist will be 3 and otherwise I might make it 1 as a default value and I'll just rename that one SG temp and we have to say down in the block model now we'll see that that is automatically available to us we could have a look at s2 temp and I'll turn off the filter it's not very meaningful but if I just change that to something wrong here that's uh that's not a very reasonable one but that's the way we would do it let's leave that one it takes a little bit of getting used to but they're they're quite intuitive after you've used them for a little while classification in this instance is just using trying to get an idea of how we might classify so I've said number of I'm using the number of samples that were stored when we ran the kriging and the average distance of samples give it at some parameters and the sign measured indicated and inferred if we have a look at the results of that and it's classification in here a little bit spotted dog but it does show you the three different colors of colors there so we've got the imagine is green indicated red and inferred as orange so any calculations you make of straightaway you'll see that they show up down here if we expand our flock model you'll see that we've got all the evaluations we've got our calculations and then the last thing we'll cover is some of our validation tools so we've got great Tony's curves and we've have SWAT plots and ultimately reporting new ones of these can be made by right-clicking new grade Tony's graph new swath plot and once you've made one you can just open them up and go back to the doneness one this one so I need to I'm just going to use constant SG in this instance and I've got two curves added so I've got an inverse distance and I've got a creaking one here so you just choose if I want to add I just pick out of all my items which ones that I want to look at so I could look at just the first pass copper and give it a name and I can see what they are there these things can be copied so you can actually copy the image but you can also copy the data so that all the underlying information that's going into this graph can be put into Excel so if you have your own format graphs to use that you'll be able to do it that way and again you can store as many of these as you like there's no safe button you just close it and it's remains there so now if I open that up again it goes back to where we were before SWOT plots if I open that one up okay so this one's been set up so you choose your numeric items so in this case I'm just wanting to compare my inverse distance and my ordinary crude values on past one that lists them down here and then we can turn on and off what we want to look at so we've got this is volume of blocks so we turn that one on and then this is actually the values down here we've got the actual composite values so when you first open that up they won't be on and you can turn those on so we're looking at composites and then the actual estimates we've got inverse distance and creaking it's in the X direction the Y direction and the Z direction so you have to set this once and all three directions will be shown and this was developed to be used in 3d so they've done it by swath number we are we have asked to get the XS change to northing easting and RL then at this stage these swath numbers I'm in the Z direction here so you can see that there's stripes these swaths and if there was a particular area you are concerned about you can narrow down where that is visually so now we're within this part of the of the model if we swap around into the X you'll see that we're just seeing if I look down that's the X watts and if we look sorry Y swaths and then this is the the ex-wife's so you did get an idea of where you are again these can be copied the copied data comes out now we can't display number of samples used on the graph but that data does actually export when you copy the data so you get the volume and the number of samples so you can put that into your own spreadsheet if you need to so again you can store as many different types of swaths as you wish the SWAT size is based on the block parent block size so I've got parent blocks of 10 meters so these are 10 meter swaths if I make that 5 then I'll end up with 50 meter swaths as you can see there okay so two last important points I want to cover is how do we get numbers in a report out of this and how to export the block model the whole concept of reporting against a volume within leapfrog within edge is that that volume needs to be inside a geological model so when I've done it as an example so I've got this Stoke model right so excuse the shapes but we've got three step shapes that I need to report on so what I've done is built these into a geological model it's a simple process and we've actually got a blog that's coming out soon that explains this entire process and this pretty much works for any kind of solids that you wish to report from so if you've got classification solids so you've got inferred indicated shapes from another package just import them into the meshes folder and then just build them in to a simple geological model and all it is is using the new intrusion from surface functionality you give it a name so step one and then it runs and it just duplicates exactly the shape that you need so that's not doing any interpolation or anything it's just basically a way of copying these shapes into a model that can be accessed by edge so we've got three up four volumes state 1 2 & 3 so if I bring those up and get rid of the unknown one up on there so now I've got three volumes with inside a model so down back down at block models - Eve up under the sub blocking triggers I've bought that across so that it's going to sub block around the edges of those so we get our volumes correct and then we've evaluated that across so we just bring the entire model over and it's evaluated so that means it's now accessible when we run a report a report is to stand by a new resource report and again I've got one already done and we can open so you can store as many different reports as you like and the process is simply select the columns that you want to access so I want to report against Stopes so and in this case classification so I could turn that on/off and I'm just reporting my volumes against the step shapes if I turn the classification which in this instance is based on that calculation it will bring them both up for me and I'm only reporting against the ordinate cribbed grades if I wanted to add in the universe distance grades I would take that one on the first time you do it you usually have to tick on the top and you choose the units so that that this will be read says no unit so you just choose the correct unit that you're working in and then I'll make sure that the metal content will be correct you can choose not destroy metal content you can show density column if you wish you can say volume columns if you wish these act like the pivot tables once you've got more than two elements so if I want to show this by classification and then by the step shapes well then I just move it across through there like that you can also apply a cutoff so I'm just going to turn off and you can see here that you can choose not to have that piece in there if you don't want to and I'm just gonna turn off the universe distance again there it is so if I choose to apply a cutoff I could use that one and just like foot in a 0.3 and that will apply that cutoff for me just actually famous what that one was so you can store all different types of these ones put one in there again there's no Save button once it's done it's done and then I can come back to that and that report is saved so these reports this what plots estate granny great tiny two curves are all stored with the block model so when we update a new drill hole that will flow through to the corresponding geological domain that we've used and the up the whole block model will update and you will see these numbers change the last part is exporting this so we right click on there and go export so at the moment we can export some block models now we can't still can't import block models sub block models so if you're importing a block model from another software you will need to regularize it first and then you can bring it in but we can export so we can export to CSV or we can export to data mined format and they're working on surfac format at the moment you just click export to CSV so we can take it out as a model file that's got the header at the top as included so it's got the information on the corners of the parent off the block model and the orientation etc you can export that so that it's got that head of information and separate little file or you can exclude that header all together and just have the point data if we do that one you get to choose which things you want to bring out so you don't have to bring everything out you might just want your final inverse distance values you can choose a query filter so that you can only take out part of that information you can make sure that you're not taking out anything that's got no grades in it usually default these things just gives you a summary at the end and then it exports to a CSV file you can then import it into your other software bearing in mind if you are importing to take Vulcan and they do have limits on character names then you will need to set your estimators up with that sort of naming to start with otherwise it won't work so that's pretty much the the workflow for leapfrog edge so I'm just going to go back to one thing so I mentioned central earlier so one way it's very dynamic so it's great for great control and things like that but if you are thinking of what do I do if I don't you know I do a read an update every six months or my resource model and I really don't want it to change too much so without central you could have two projects so you could have oops a geological model project and then you can have a separate estimation project instead of linking having the whole geological model built in there as well you would just import the final meshes from your geological model into the meshes folder and then your link the estimation part to that as meshes so then you would just update those meshes and it would flow through central allows us to do that in a slightly different way you can see here I have an estimation project and I've got a geology model so what I've done is under the meshes folder I have these blue meshes and these are linked directly to the geology project inside Central when those are updated it knows that they are and this gets a little timer on it and then you get to right-click and go reload from branch which means from central or you can go and pick which project it is that you want to get it from so this is the last geology model so I could tick on it that's letting me for some reason the tongue click on the project I want and that that's because they haven't been updated let's make sure we see but if they had changed I'd be able to pick it and then they will update I don't have to do them individually I can right-click on the whole meshes folder and go import from central and it'll update all the central meshes and then everything will flow through its that way people might be working on their Dillard's come on Oh every day but you only need to change the estimate say quarterly so that's one way of keeping things a little bit more static