Between the 17^th and 19^th of October 2019, the Seminar of Mining Valparaiso (SEMINVAL 2019), a regional activity organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, was held, which seeks to promote, coordinate, and develop a plan to integrate and exchange experiences with the actors of different mining entities in the country, to generate comprehensive and quality training between exhibitors and mine engineering students.  

AMTC, through the Delphos and Alges Laboratories, had significant participation as a collaborator in different forms, exposing research topics of their respective groups in plenary sessions and generating diffusion through a stand at the software fair installed for this purpose. In addition, both AMTC Laboratories offered training on their software.

The first to exhibit was researcher Enrique Jélvez, with the presentation entitled: "Delphos Laboratory: A Decade of Research in Mine Planning", where he explained to the audience what AMTC is, and how the Mine Design and Planning group of which Delphos is a part, develops different topics of research and technological transfer. It was then the turn of researcher Felipe Navarro of Alges Laboratory, with his presentation, "Machine Learning applied to mining explorations". They reviewed how these new techniques find a natural application in the evaluation of mine deposits.

On the last day of activities, both Laboratories performed training on their software to previously enrolled attendees in two sessions:

Delphos, through engineer Sergio Montané, did DSim training, a material transport systems simulator, both for open pit and underground mining, which considers the operations of loading, hauling, and dumping material, as well as mining components that interact with each other, such as loading equipment, trucks, crushers, belts, transfer pickets, among others, so that it evaluates the behavior of a mining system of transport of materials integrally.

For his part, researcher Fabián Soto from Alges showed the basics of ANDES software for multivariate geostatistical modeling. This course reviewed the concepts of reservoir evaluation, mining data analysis methodology, and geostatistical study (experimental variogram, concept of anisotropy, theoretical variogram, adjustment, estimation techniques, applications).

Here are some images of the event.

Researcher Felipe Navarro exhibiting at SEMINVAL 2019	Researcher Enrique Jélvez exhibiting at SEMINVAL 2019
SEMINVAL Organization gives Felipe Navarro recognition for his presentation	SEMINVAL Organization awards an acknowledgment to Enrique Jélvez for his presentation
Researchers Fabián Soto and Enrique Jélvez at the AMTC – DIMin stand	Stand with AMTC and DIMin information
Engineer Sergio Montané finishing his DSim training.