Archives: Mineral exploration

Orexplore Technologies says it has signed a binding agreement valued at around A$2.35 million ($1.6 million) with OZ Minerals that will see the ASX-listed mineral scanning technology company deliver site-based drill-core and sample scanning services using its GeoCore X10® hardware and Orexplore Insight® software. This work will support the testing of new data-driven processes focused[…]

SensOre Ltd says it has reached an agreement to acquire Intrepid Geophysics, a provider of geophysics software and services headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. The deal, valued at around A$5 million ($3.4 million) will be primarily funded through the issue of new fully paid ordinary SensOre shares. Intrepid Geophysics’ advanced automated geophysical software and geoscience expertise[…]

Independent Mineral Standards (IMS) has been awarded ISO 17034 (Reference Material Producer) accreditation by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB), paving the way for it to offer accredited Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) across all commodities, ore types and testing methodologies. Established in Perth, Western Australia in 2012, IMS specialises in the manufacture and certification of[…]

With the mining industry dealing with a backlog of sending their samples to labs for test results over the past year, some companies are turning to Mobile Sample Preparation Units as a solution, with SGS’ MSPU offering coming to the fore. The turnaround times associated with sampling are especially important in the early stages of[…]

IMDEX plans to arrive at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, Canada, next week with a suite of products targeting quality, accuracy, and precision. The company will use the first in-person PDAC conference in more than two years to showcase new and improved tools and technologies that build on its reputation[…]

Intertek, a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, has announced an agreement with Minalyze to install a Minalyzer CS patented drill core scanner at Intertek’s new Minerals Global Centre of Excellence in Perth, Western Australia. The Minerals Global Centre of Excellence opened in July 2021, which consolidated Intertek’s Minerals operations into a single 19,000[…]

A trial of Maptek DomainMCF at an underground metals mine has concluded that machine learning will most likely become the preferred modelling method for mineral deposits, according to the software company. DomainMCF is a platform that Maptek says will ‘put the geology back into geologists’, applying deep learning and big data computing methods to generate[…]

Micromine says its exploration and resource estimation solution has just got better with its latest version, Micromine Origin 2022.5. The enhanced functionality of the company’s flagship product is led by three brand new tools to equip exploration and resource geologists with even greater confidence in their geological decisions. At the click of a few buttons,[…]

Foraco International SA, a leading global provider of mineral and water drilling services, has been awarded a major contract with BHP Olympic Dam. This contract is for exploration and evaluation drilling services near the Olympic Dam underground copper-uranium mining complex, involving diamond drilling and is signed for three years firm plus two optional years extension.[…]

Chrysos Corp continues to expand the reach of its PhotonAssay™ technology, with the company set to provide new units to Britannia Mining Solutions, Intertek and Barrick Gold’s Kibali gold mine. This brings the total number of deployed or contractually committed units to 38, up from the previous total of 33 units, with the new lease[…]