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Canterra Announces Initial Results from AI Mineral Targeting Work with VRIFY AI
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 10, 2024) - Canterra Minerals Corporation...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Canterra Announces Initial Results from AI Mineral Targeting Work with VRIFY AIVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 10, 2024) - Canterra Minerals Corporation (TSXV: CTM) (OTCQB: CTMCF) (\"Canterra\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that it has received initial results from its ongoing partnership with VRIFY Technology and its Artificial Intelligence (\"AI\") assisted mineral discovery platform (\"VRIFY AI\") for Canterra's 100% owned Buchans Project in the Central Newfoundland Mining District (Figures 1 & 2). Initial results of VRIFY AI's analysis reveal several new promising targets within previously underexplored areas, as well as independently validate existing mineralized trends. This analysis leverages VRIFY's proprietary AI models, both deposit specific models and its universal exploration model, to identify correlations between mineralized points and exploration data across extensive datasets. These include historical and recent regional and local datasets ranging across a variety of data types including geophysical, geochemical and geological data for the Company's Buchans Project (Figure 1). With over 400,000 metres of historical drilling from in and around the former Buchans mine, there is an extensive training data set available to build and refine AI-driven mineral prediction.Highlights:AI modelling of multidisciplinary datasets has confirmed and highlighted new target areas prospective for Buchans-style massive sulphide mineralization; several targets occur within previously underexplored areas. AI predictive modelling successfully validated known massive sulphide and stockwork mineralization, including existing resources at Canterra's undeveloped Lundberg base metal deposit. As Canterra continues to explore and generate new modelling for the Buchans Project, new data will be fed into the dynamic VRIFY AI model, refining predictions and identifying additional exploration targets. This AI-driven approach enables Canterra to efficiently unlock potential value from existing datasets through the identification of targets that may otherwise remain undetected or require significantly more time to identify through conventional exploration methods.Chris Pennimpede, President and CEO of Canterra, commented: \"The extensive Buchans database is the perfect dataset to realize the power of AI by rap...