Viridien: Redefining mineral exploration and extraction efficiency

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With over 90 years of pioneering geoscience, Viridien (formerly CGG), has built a reputation for tackling some of the world's most complex geological challenges. By combining geoscience expertise with advanced data, subsurface imaging, and monitoring technologies, it delivers valuable insights for more-informed mineral exploration, faster mine development, and safer mining operations.

Viridien enables smarter mining decisions with expertise that includes geology, geophysics and geotechnical engineering. This knowledge is leveraged using data science, machine learning, and technologies such as seismic imaging, satellite mapping, in-situ sensing and high-performance computing (HPC) to provide a host of solutions throughout the mining life cycle.

Comprehensive and integrated data libraries allow for accelerated project screening, while industry-leading subsurface imaging better defines ore bodies to de-risk assets and ensure more efficient mining operations. During production, specialized asset monitoring solutions deliver real-time insight to enhance risk management and productivity.

Viridien provides analytics-ready Earth data and applications designed to accelerate exploration, reduce risk, and control costs. These integrated, georeferenced datasets feature a range of satellite, geophysical and digitally transformed geological data, meticulously curated by geoscientists and data specialists. They allow exploration areas to be rapidly screened, and deliver critical insights for key exploration decisions while minimizing unnecessary expenditures on data acquisition and un-targeted drilling.

Additionally, global mineral insight libraries offer seamless integration with operational workflows, enhancing efficiency in data management and exploration activities.

As mines reach greater depths and ore grades decline, the timeline from discovery to production continues to lengthen. Viridien’s market-leading geophysical imaging and subsurface characterization capabilities offer unparalleled ore body definition and prediction of engineering properties to optimize drilling programs and help maximise the value of the resource while reducing HSE exposure.

Seismic imaging offers significant potential to revolutionize deep mineral exploration. With nearly a century of subsurface imaging expertise, combined with leading HPC capacity to quickly deliver high-fidelity models, Viridien is well positioned to provide ore body knowledge in deeper, more complex mineral environments to expedite development.

By applying advanced seismic techniques such as elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) and leveraging its HPC solutions, Viridien helps extract greater value from exploration data, improving decision-making, reducing timelines, and supporting more sustainable outcomes.

Near-surface geohazards and uncertainty pose significant challenges to a mine’s operational safety and efficiency. Viridien’s integrated solutions help mitigate these by providing advanced hazard detection and mine monitoring capabilities, improving site safety and streamlining operations.

Combining expertise in sensing equipment and Earth observation, Viridien offers technologies like InSAR and distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) cables that can identify and monitor risks such as natural voids, tailings storage facilities (TSF), ground movement, and historic workings. In addition, in-house specialists with experience in mining projects around the world apply their expertise in geophysics, geotechnical engineering and remote sensing to provide unique value to mine owners.

Find out more about how Viridien’s advanced data, imaging and monitoring solutions can help reduce your costs, improve safety and accelerate your path to production. Visit us online or reach out to Viridien’s Minerals & Mining team!

The Viridien team will be at PDAC in Toronto, 2-5 March 2025, to showcase our innovative technologies and services that help our clients meet their mineral exploration and mining production needs. Come by Booth #1228 and say hello!