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sharp look and feel with a report-ready
appearance.
Seequent’s Director of Product and Innovation
Tim Schurr says: “We are committed to the
continual improvement of Leapfrog Geo to ensure
we set new standards in geological modelling.
We are well known for making frequent and
significant Leapfrog Geo upgrades and we plan to
maintain this trajectory. We are equally
committed to identifying new solutions like View
that extend Leapfrog’s value across our product
range and punctuate our intensive release
programme.”
Finally, Seequent has launched mineral
resource estimation solution Leapfrog ® EDGE.
Leapfrog EDGE supports and advances industry
practices in mineral resource estimation “by
applying the highly dynamic, intuitive and visual
capabilities that Leapfrog 3D geological
modelling solutions are world-renowned for.” In a
streamlined workflow, Leapfrog EDGE introduces
innovative 3D visualisation to resource
estimation alongside industry standard tools for
estimating, domaining, geostatistical evaluation
and reporting.
Maloney stated: “Reliable resource estimation
is critical to create confidence for all levels of
decision makers. The geological model is the
foundation of any resource estimate so it was a
natural progression to develop a Leapfrog
solution for resource estimation. Leapfrog EDGE
builds on the success of Leapfrog Geo which
allows 3D geological models to be built in a very
dynamic and intuitive way.”
Using Leapfrog EDGE within Leapfrog Geo
creates a fully integrated workflow between the
geological model and the resource model,
allowing users to stay in the very visual and
dynamic Leapfrog environment. Estimates are
built from the Leapfrog model, avoiding data
corruption and error. A key feature of this
integration, is ‘dynamic updating’, where users
can add data or revise their interpretations at
any stage in the workflow and these changes
will automatically flow downstream and update.
Schurr says: “This seamless connection
increases confidence as the user can give a
stronger emphasis to providing a robust
geological model to underpin the estimate.
Introducing this simple but substantial step
delivers major benefits as users can manage
change as they continue to interpret the geology
and make use of the latest information.”
Leapfrog EDGE’s highly interactive data
visualisation tools for resource estimation help
users gain a greater understanding of their data.
Users can rapidly iterate and test different
parameters and then view the results in the rich
3D environment, whether it’s variography
estimation results or reporting and summarising.
The variogram tool is an example of a feature
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that takes full advantage of Leapfrog’s highly
visual environment. Users can see the variogram
orientation and ranges in both 2D and 3D, and
then manipulate them directly in