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Our approach to reducing
risk in mineral exploration incorporates the following:
- Applying basin analysis
techniques to identify mineral systems for sediment-hosted
mineral deposits. and generate new exploration targets.
- Determining the stratigraphic
and tectonic development, the burial history and generation
of hydrothermal systems, the fluid transport pathways
and ore trapping sites in prospective areas.
- Focussing work plans
and reducing geological risk.
We can resolve problems
using structural modelling techniques (see our section
restoration page), to understand complex
structures in extensional and inverted basins, and in
fold and thrust belts, leading to validation of the
interpretation.
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We work from the macro
to the micro scale, and vice versa, to unravel the structural
development and the controls on mineral deposition.
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Techniques
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- Integration of information
from all data types - geological maps, borehole data,
seismic lines, fieldwork, and gravity and magnetics,
to generate geological models and unravel structural
complexities.
- Structural modelling
- construction, restoration and forward modelling
of cross-sections to validate interpretations.
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- Generation of robust
structural maps from borehole and underground data,
using fault analysis techniques, to determine the
geometry and extent of ore deposits.
- Analysis of small
scale structures to be used in mine development.
- Seismic interpretation
for deposit evaluation, mine planning, and regional
exploration.
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Examples of recent projects
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- Section restoration
of compressional and extensional structures in a carbonate
hosted Pb-Zn mine, Ireland.
- Regional structural
modelling and basin analysis combined with 3D mine
interpretation, Witwatersrand Basin.
- Mine-scale to regional-scale
evaluation of Cu deposits to identify new exploration
areas, Africa.
- Regional thrust belt
development and identification of new mineral systems,
Morocco.
- Regional structural
review and section restoration to generate new exploration
projects, Mount Isa.
- Mine based studies
in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Southern Africa.
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