Steve Mundell, acQuire’s Director of Product chats to The GIM Channel this week giving insights into why he thinks GIM is important in the resources industry and the future trends catching his attention.

Federico Arboleda, Commercial Strategist at acQuire discusses how the mining industry can adapt to take on new innovations and technologies appearing in the industry.

Matt Hoffer, Geology Manager for Coeur Mining based in Chicago, joins this week’s episode of The GIM Channel to discuss innovative trends and the challenges geologists face in the natural resources industry.

Zane Prickett, Director of Unearthed, joins this week’s episode of The GIM Channel to discuss how start-ups and hackathons can foster greater innovation in the natural resources sector.

Our first episode for 2017 features guest speaker Jeremy Vincent, Manager of Production and Development Geology at Capstone Mining Corporation.

Jeremy catches up with us from Vancouver and discusses GIM challenges he’s seen in the mining industry from graduate to management level.

Jeremy talks about how geological data should be respected. Errors in data collected in the field can have a knock-on effect through the mining value chain, leading to financial ramifications.

He also discusses the value of geological data and how companies can do more to invest in it in the current market.

This week’s episode features acQuire’s managing director, Alison Atkins, who reflects on highlights from 20 years of acQuire and the changes seen in GIM in the mining industry up to today.

She discusses current risks for the mining and metals industry as outlined in a recent Ernst and Young Report and gives her insights on industry trends such as automation, connectivity, and cloud technologies.

Alison also discusses new initiatives developed by acQuire this year and the company’s outlook for the future.

When data is an intangible thing, how can we ensure company’s value their data and understand the commercial ramifications on making decisions from “bad” data?

This week’s episode of The GIM Channel features guest speakers Luc Savoie, from Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) and Warren Carvey from acQuire.

We discuss some of the biggest challenges faced by the natural resources industry relating to GIM, from when Luc started his career to today.

In this episode of The GIM Channel, we are joined by acQuire’s co-founder, Bill Withers. Bill gives insights into the history of acQuire and challenges facing geoscientific information management from 1996 to today.

Geologists are great data gatherers but are they great data managers?

The GIM Channel speaks with Paul Murtagh, an experienced exploration geologist, who previously worked on part of a standardisation initiative at Anglo American. This gave him the opportunity to take a closer look at how geoscientific information was being managed across seven mine sites in Australia and Canada. Paul discusses the importance of data management and how innovations have created improvements, cost efficiencies and better workflows in resources operations.