The Basics

Overview Alteration is a term that appears in almost every junior mining company press release or project description, often repeated many times in a single paragraph. It is usually prefaced ...

On a smaller scale they can help identify planes of weakness and channels in which fluids may have deposited economic minerals. On a larger scale they can help the geologist to ...

Heat and water combined are what creates most mineral deposits. Aside from the weathering processes which will subsequently transport (placer or alluvial deposits) or concentrate the minerals in place (laterites) ...

The world is a dynamic place, the earth that we stand on, and think of as fixed, is anything but. The most unstable areas of all are the plate boundaries, ...

Technically a placer deposit is the general term for a mineral deposit formed by the concentration of moving particles by gravity. Alluvial is the name  for placer deposits formed by ...

Geologists, are known to have more opinions than economists, so it should come as no surprise that the classification of mineral deposits, is an on-going hot topic.  The details will ...

Finding an economic mineral deposit is a big deal, but few geologists get to add “found a mine” to their resume. Why? Economic conditions such as commodity prices and availability ...

It seems the farther we get in life the more we realize that we can’t escape those lessons we learned in elementary school. Sometimes a refresher is required and this ...