24 Oct 25

Western Hemisphere Webinar, Part 2

UTC

11.00 – 11.10

Julie Bourdeau

Welcome & Introduction

11.10 – 11.30

University of Idaho

Recent LLM-assisted extension to Mindat: legacy data rescue, friendly data search, and vision for applications in mineral exploration

11.30 – 11.50

David Zhen Yin

Stanford University

From geological hypothesis to AI: enhancing mineral exploration decisions by quantifying geological uncertainty

11.50 – 12.10

Alan Baxter

Quminex

Validation in Data-Driven Mineral Prospectivity – Limitations, Nuance, and the Case for New Approaches

12.10 – 12.30

Callum A Walter

USGS

Revisiting the importance of regional-scale, high-quality geophysical data in mineral exploration – A case study ft. The Mammoth Magnetic Anomaly

12.30 – 12.50

Shokouh Riahi

Carleton University

Magnetic Vector Inversion for Imaging Remanently Magnetized Mafic–Ultramafic Intrusions: Case Studies from Tamarack (Minnesota) and Thunder Bay North (Ontario)

12.50 – 13.10

Ina Storch

Beak Consultants GmbH

DroneSOM – Deep mineral exploration using drone-based geophysics and 3D data integration with SOM

13.10 – 13.30

Parham Adiban

SRK Consulting

Model evaluation with Shapley Additive Explanations and insights into geological assumptions