Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana Diamonds said it will start using artificial-intelligence techniques to assist in the search for new diamond deposits as well as other minerals within its mineral database.
The AIM-listed diamond explorer said AI can process large sets of data, finding and correcting logical gaps and analyzing a number of different minerals. It added that the system acts much like a geologist but can function faster and more efficiently and that it expects this exercise to yield fresh insights which will offer previously-unseen drillable targets.
The company said that although it was early stages in both the work and the use of the technique in mineral exploration, the future potential was huge.
“We have always believed that there are more diamond deposits to be found under the sand. Now there is the possibility of other deposits being identified,” Chairman John Teeling said.
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