Publication: CIM Magazine
B.C. exploration community buoyed by 20 per cent increase in activity in 2017
Roundup 2018 speakers highlight Canada’s role in supplying materials needed for clean technology Mineral exploration activity in British Columbia increased by 20 per cent in 2017, Gordon Clarke, the director of the British Columbia Mineral Development Office, announced on the opening day of the Association for Mineral Exploration’s (AME) Roundup 2018 conference. It is the... Read more »
Publication: Earth Explorer
Value through partnerships a key message at annual BC exploration conference
Industry leaders emphasised the importance of forming strategic partnerships during their keynote addresses to the Association for Mineral Exploration’s (AME) Roundup conference in Vancouver in January. David Garofalo, President and CEO of Goldcorp, and Don Lindsay, President and CEO of Teck Resources, set the cautiously optimistic tone of the meeting by each stressing how important... Read more »
Publication: Earth Explorer
Corvettes in a cave: applying geophysics to a classic car tragedy
By Kylie Williams February 12, 2014, was a tragic day for Corvette lovers around the world. Shortly after 5:30am, surveillance cameras inside the National Corvette Museum (NCM) in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, captured stunning footage of a sinkhole opening up and swallowing eight classic Corvette cars. Although sometimes heartbreaking and rarely recorded on video, sinkhole... Read more »
Publication: Earth Explorer
New IGS Xplore prospectivity maps for Botswana
By Kylie Williams International Geoscience Services (IGS) have released a series of base metal prospectivity maps for the Ngamiland District of northwestern Botswana using free geodata available on the recently-launched Botswana Geoscience Portal, hosted by Geosoft. IGS, a spin-out of the British Geological Survey, used their proprietary IGS Xplore software to identify favorable areas for... Read more »