Archives: Mineral exploration

Barkom Group Drilling Rigs and Equipment was founded in Ankara, Turkey in 1987. The already globally active company has started to manufacture exploration diamond drilling rigs under his own Bulldrill® brand as a result it says of industry experience gained over the years and as a result of great efforts that it has put into[…]

Specialist Australian drilling services company DDH1 Ltd has announced that it has secured four additional surface mineral drilling rigs in response to strong customer demand. The four rigs are additional to the organic fleet growth outlined in the company’s IPO Prospectus in February, which confirmed that 11 rigs would be added to DDH1’s fleet in[…]

A collaboration between STRYDE, a seismic technology provider, and Explor, a geophysical technology and data acquisition company, has indicated seismic imaging surveys in mountainous terrain could become much less onerous in the future. As STRYDE explains, mountains present a significant challenge for any sector seeking to map the subsurface to determine the abundance of resources,[…]

Master Drilling Group continued to add to its client and service base over the course of 2020, with bright spots reported in exploration drilling and the West Africa gold sector. Its 2020 financials were hit by COVID-19, with revenue dropping 17% year-on-year to $123.1 million and operating profit declining to $12.3 million, from $24.1 million[…]

Searcher is looking to branch out of the oil & gas sector with a mining edition of its advanced geo-imagery search engine GeoClerk. GeoClerk intelligently extracts imagery and surrounding data from all types of unstructured documents, and then uses machine learning to classify them into geologically relevant categories. The intuitive, web-based interface enables simple and[…]

Snowden has released new features and enhancements for its advanced geostatistics software, Supervisor. Supervisor v8.14 now comes with a new Multivariate Conditional Simulation component that, the company says, allows users to perform conditional sequential gaussian simulation over multiple variables while maintaining complex compositional correlations. It added: “A feature-rich workflow allows for multiple compositional and gaussian[…]

TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING has announced the release of its next-generation TESCAN TIMA, a dedicated solution for automated mineralogical analysis for industrial mineral processing and earth sciences. TESCAN TIMA delivers rapid access to actionable data across several applications, including mineral quantification, petrography, metallurgy, liberation analysis and other mineralogical or composition studies. For the mining industry, TESCAN[…]

The resources sector creates problems for itself from the first drill hole to production by not acquiring the right data at the right time, according to IMDEX Chief Geoscientist, Dr Dave Lawie. Speaking ahead of an IMDEX webinar to be delivered to coincide with this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s virtual conference, Dr[…]

Minerva Intelligence says its Cognitive artificial intelligence-powered prospect generation software, TARGET, has helped Giga Metals identify and evaluate new prospective exploration targets at the Parnaiba Basin project in Nordeste, Brazil. Giga, after validating the results produced by Minerva’s TARGET software, made the decision to acquire exploration permits covering significant new regional sediment-hosted copper anomalies along[…]

Exploration companies planning to cash in on the rush of capital into the mining sector risk losing out if they fail to take advantage of the latest tools to deliver real-time results from drilling programs, according to IMDEX. Exploration activity is on the up ‒ spurred on by strong commodity prices supported by government stimulus,[…]