Tenzing has a proven track record in staff training in the pragmatic use of geostatistical concepts, in particular in the form of hands-on one on one co-piloting session using the specialised geostatistical toolbox Isatis.

Tenzing also has experience in teaching introductory and advanced geostatistical training courses to the coal and metalliferous mining industry (~25 courses since 1999) as course leaders and/or course co-presenters.

Tenzing offers two types of training:

1. ★Short courses covering introductory geostatistics to advanced geostatistical methodologies;
   

2. ★Hands-on one on one training covering both geostatistical theory and practical examples (client or site based) using the specialised geostatistical toolbox Isatis.
   

The outline of a typical course would be as follows:

Day 1

1. ★Isatis software installation;
   

2. ★General introduction;
   

3. ★Importing comma delimited files with and without header files;
   

4. ★Exporting comma delimited files with and without header files; and,
   

5. ★Data Selection – covering in detail interval selections, alphanumeric selections, logical operation selections (AND, OR, NOT, EX OR), sampling selection and macro selections;
   

6. ★Copy statistics operations covering the points grid and grid operations; and,
   

7. ★Calculation operations.
   

Day 2

1. ★Grid creation for two dimensional estimation and for statistical homogeneity analysis;
   

2. ★Quick statistics operations reviewing univariate, bivariate and multivariate operations;
   

3. ★Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) covering base maps, scatter plots, histograms, grade tonnage curves, q-q plots, h-scatter plots, variograms and variogram maps. In addition, the editing, saving and printing of the statistical figures was reviewed;
   

4. ★Generation of experimental variogram maps; and,
   

5. ★Generation of experimental omni-directional variograms and directional variograms.
   

Day 3

1. ★Review of the Isatis processes learnt over Days 1 to 3 by performing statistical homogeneity analysis, exploratory data analysis and variographic analysis based on a seam from deposit datasets;
   

2. ★This process follows the typical geostatistical workflows used by Tenzing in coal projects;
   

3. ★Review of the drillhole spacing analysis procedure (DHSA);
   

4. ★Review and interpretation of the DHSA Excel spreadsheet; and,
   

5. ★Review of the (co)kriging operations.
   

Main Clients

1. ★AngloCoal Australia
   

2. ★BHP Billiton
   

3. ★BMA
   

4. ★Lihir Gold Limited (LGL)
   

5. ★Newcrest Mining
   

6. ★Xstrata Zinc
   

7. ★Xstrata Copper
   

8. ★Xstrata Coal