Overview The ‘Ring of Fire’ is a collection of rich greenstone-hosted chromite (Iron-Chromium Oxide) and nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) deposits around McFaulds Lake in northern Ontario, Canada. Discovered relatively recently in ...
Read More »Hunting for Giants: An Introduction to ZTEM Surveys in Mineral Exploration
Overview It may just look like an enormous, flying spider web towed behind a helicopter, but the ZTEM airborne geophysical survey system has the potential to identify giant porphyry copper deposits and features ...
Read More »Down-hole Geophysics in Mineral Exporation
Overview During early exploration, particularly in ‘greenfield’ areas away from mines or known mineralisation, very little information is known about the rocks. If an exploration company has the budget to ...
Read More »The World-Class Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Canada
Overview Several of the world’s largest gold and base metal deposits are found in eastern Canada’s Abitibi greenstone belt (AGB). The term world-class can sometimes be overused, but the AGB ...
Read More »Old Gold: An Introduction to Archean Greenstone Belts
Overview Two of the world’s most important gold districts are found in Archean greenstone belts: the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia and the southern Superior Province of eastern Canada. Many ...
Read More »Skarn Deposits – Our Largest Source of Tungsten
Skarn vs. skarn deposit Skarn is a relatively simple rock type formed when a magma body intrudes into carbonate sedimentary rocks such as limestone or dolomite. At the contact between the two rock ...
Read More »How Important is a Social Licence to Operate?
Community engagement is no longer optional for junior explorers. Earning your social licence to operate is as important as any geophysical survey, geochemical sampling program or drill campaign to advance a ...
Read More »What the –ic? An Introduction to Alteration
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 ...
Read More »Layered Mafic Intrusions: Our Largest Source of Platinum & Palladium
Overview Most of the world’s economic deposits of platinum group elements (PGE) including platinum, palladium, rhodium and other rare metals come from layered mafic intrusions (LMI), a rare sequence of rocks formed when repeated ...
Read More »Exploration in the Tintina Gold Belt of Alaska & Yukon
Overview Stretching in an arc almost 2000 km long across Alaska and the Yukon is the rich Tintina Gold Province (TGP) where over 50 million ounces of lode gold resources ...
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