Base Metals

Mitre has a long and extensive experience in base metal exploration and it still forms the core of our business. We have worked in many of the major cratonic shields worldwide on projects ranging from in-mine ore lens definition to basin-scale airborne EM projects.

Our detailed knowledge of base-metals helps with the front-end and back-end of an exploration program. We recommend the latest and most effective technique(s), which companies are best set up to acquire the data, we QC the data as it is being acquired, process and interpret it and then produce a meaningful, integrated report. Call us for an unbiased and informed opinion about who and what will be best suited for your project

Gold

Gold has some of the strongest physical properties (eg, density, conductivity), but of course is usually too disseminated to be directly detected. However, Mitre has some specialist expertise, especially in the application of geophysics to epithermal and shear hosted gold.. With clever application of ‘non-standard’ geophysical methods such as MMR and cross-borehole radar we can often find and map these elusive and structurally complex ore deposits. Call us if you would like some worked examples and an explanation of different options.

Our Projects

Designing and interpreting underground DHEM at the Endeavour base-metal mine, discovering previously unknown lenses at the northern edge of the mine

Design and interpretation of numerous DHMMR surveys at Broken Hill to locate poorly conducting zinc lodes, with some notable success, including extending the resource of North Mine’s Zinc Lenses

Designing and interpreting of DHEM at the old Woodlawn base metal mine, discovering a previously unknown, large lens, distal from the deposit

Interpretation of airborne EM at the Little Broken Hill prospect, defining previously unknown conductors despite 50 years exploration over the area

Interpretation of airborne EM in Saudi Arabia for base metal targets

2013 comparison of helicopter time domain EM systems, including their resolution, noise level and effectiveness

Designing, QC’ing and interpreting SAM surveys in the Mt Isa Block delineating previously unknown conductors