CanadaManufacturing2025 – ongoingEquinox Gold
DORA exploration targeting at Valentine
Equinox Gold used AI targeting before drilling a new gold discovery at Valentine
Problem
Geologists needed to prioritise exploration targets across the Valentine property in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Approach
The team combined geological datasets in VRIFY's DORA software. Its target ranking, together with surface evidence, supported the first drill programme at Minotaur. Equinox Gold reported that drilling confirmed gold mineralisation.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
AI helped select a drilling target; fieldwork established the mineralisation. The discovery remained at an early exploration stage.
Categories
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Equinox Gold described DORA's role in prioritising Minotaur and reported subsequent drilling results. It did not isolate AI's contribution to exploration cost or success rates.
Full details are in the original sources.
