The Prospectors & Developer’s Association of Canada (PDAC) 2024 Convention will kick off in Toronto this weekend bringing together mineral exploration and development companies, investors, students, scientists, and more.
Here’s what’s going to be top of mind for this year’s conference attendees:
1. AI in mining exploration
While artificial intelligence (AI) has played a growing role in the mining sector for many years, 2023’s “AI gold rush” has brought the role that this technology could play in exploration to the forefront of this year’s PDAC conference.
Points of discussion will include new AI exploration tools, the best principles for applying AI such as Generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) to datasets from exploration and mining geology, and how to evaluate and use results produced by GenAI and ML algorithms.
Numerous sessions include presentations from companies about their specific…
