My first trip to Nevada this year was a busy one. At the GSN symposium it was great to catch up with old friends and co-workers as well as making new acquaintances. I really hope my talk on Carlin type gold exploration through cover was helpful to fellow geoscientists in mineral exploration.
After the GSN symposium symposium I managed to make progress on important Nevada projects. One of the projects is using geochemical data to characterise geometallurgical parameters at a silver mine. This project has the potential to help improve material classification, with associated higher recovery yields from leach pads.
Another uses similar multi-element data to identify the chemostratigraphy of a carbonate formation, thus recognising important lithogeochemical controls on epithermal gold mineralisation. Deep drilling is ongoing in an exploration program at the third project I worked on in Nevada last month – again using chemostratigraphy from geochemical data to assist with target generation for gold exploration. The work at these projects will improve geological modelling, thus shortening the time to discovery of new resources.
