Exploration Geology: Keys to Success

Geological Foundation
James Siddorn

World-class deposits are becoming increasingly hard to discover, even with exploration expenditures having reached all-time highs in 2012.

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Geochemical Exploration: What Is Truly New?
Hennie Theart

Geochemical exploration has seen major advances, mainly driven by technological breakthroughs as laboratory and field equipment have improved -- but has our ability to interpret the results kept up? I have my doubts.

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Mapping In A Connected World
Jason Beltran

Traditional paper maps are static and limited to the size of the paper on which they are printed. There is also the difficulty in viewing the detail when maps portray a lot of information.

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Machine Learning
Antoine Caté

Machine learning is a trending buzzword in all industries, including mineral exploration.

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Using The Mineral Systems Approach To Increase Exploration Success
David Holwell

In an attempt to reduce the inherent risk in mineral exploration, SRK, with their clients, continues to use innovative and new technology, approaches and concepts that assess the increasing amounts of geological data in the most time efficient manner.

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Optimising Exploration Strategies: Fast-Tracked Listing For SE Asian Exchanges
Bert De Waele

Navigating and meeting the listing requirements for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) can prove a daunting task.

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The Power Of Spectral Remote Sensing
Chris Barrett

Spectral remote sensing involves the collection, processing, and interpretation of electromagnetic energy that is reflected or emitted from features on the Earth’s surface.

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The Continuity Challenge: Old Gold In West African Deformed Terranes
Wayne Barnett

Exploration in highly deformed orogenic environments is challenging because of the potential for extensive deformation of the mineralised target zone.

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Keno-Lightning Project, Yukon
Simon Craggs

In November 2016, Metallic Minerals Corp. commissioned SRK to conduct a desktop and field structural geology analysis of the Keno-Lightning project.

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Peridot Gemstone Exploration
Pengfei Xiao

Exploring for coloured gemstones is different from exploring for other metals or coal; the key to successful exploration is collaboration between gemologist and geologist.

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Exploring For Conglomerate Gold In The Pilbara
Stuart Munroe, Mike Cunningham

Conglomerate-hosted gold and alluvial gold draining conglomerate sequences have been discovered by multiple explorers over an extensive area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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Exploring For Graphite: Opportunities And Challenges
Mike Cunningham

Graphite is a form of pure carbon that normally occurs as black crystal flakes and masses.

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Gold Mineralisation During Orogenic Extension
Blair Hrabi

SRK applies rigorous geological and structural interpretations to provide insight for exploration targeting, constraints on resource modelling, and support for geotechnical evaluations.

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Exploring Greenland's Gold Districts
Jon Russill, Bill Kellaway

Greenland has numerous gold showings, but only one has ever been mined.

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Rapid Exploration In Remote Terrains
Oliver Bayley, Rob Bowell, Jessica Charles

Exploration, particularly field access is challenging in many remote environments due to lack of infrastructure and vehicle access takes several hours driving over sand dunes and dry river beds or relying on air access only.

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Exploration Programme Design And Implementation: More Than Just Geology
Steven Bateman, Joe Fifield

Running an effective and efficient exploration programme, be it in a well established jurisdiction or a remote location, not only requires a firm grasp of the geological and metallogenic processes and a competent geological team, but also robust field management and logistics.

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Sonic Drilling - Where Does It Fit?
Oliver Bayley

SRK Exploration realised the full potential of sonic drilling in 2010 when they recommended that sonic rigs should be used at an alluvial platinum project that was struggling to reconcile drilling results and mine production.

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A Dynamic Approach To Drill Programme Design
Harri Rees, Dan Marsh

To assist in optimising time efficiency and value for money while planning and supervising drilling programmes, companies such as SRK ES are embracing the use of implicit geological modelling software.

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Integrating Geotechnical And Hydrogeological Data Gathering
Sujit Roy

The Ministry of Mines is seeking to grow the mineral sector in India through a new mineral exploration policy.

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Examples Of Typical Errors Detected In Geotechnical Core Logging
Andrea Russo

In the first stages of a mining project, it is a cost saving advantage to collect the geotechnical basic parameters required for the geotechnical rock mass assessment during exploration.

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Geological And Structural Modelling For Better Mineral Resource Estimation
Ben Jupp

Under the JORC Code, reporting a Mineral Resource requires sufficient confidence in the continuity of mineralisation to enable correlation between the sample points that form the basis of the resource.

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Valuing Exploration Assets: A Way of Keeping Score
James Gilbertson, Mathew Davies

Exploration valuation is considered somewhat of a dark art. Unlike income or market based valuations, probabilistic based approaches rely to some degree on subjective interpretation of geological aspects.

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