exploration

		EXPLORATION ASSISTANCE, IDEAS, ORE INTERPRETATION

"The best geologist is he (or she) who has seen the most rocks" HH Read

Seeing many rocks takes time, costs a lot and taxes one's memory. Why not to delegate your task of seeing and comparing rocks and listening what they tell us where it matters, as in exploration, to somebody who has done it for a long time? I have been seeing, organizing and interpreting rocks most of my life having visited some 3500 mineralized occurrences (deposits) in 85 countries (peruse them in Data Metallogenica Original) and continue to do so. In the limited time I have still left I offer the following assistance:

Development of exploration concepts. Tell me what mineral deposit you consider finding or acquiring; where; what are the limitations. I will prepare and discuss with you a list of possibilities based on precedents and comparison with similar settings around the world, what to look for, where to start (Metallogeny, prognoses; World finds).
Orebody brainstorming. Is this a Carlin type or a listvenite? (an actual recent example). This could be just an academic question and who cares anyway, but knowing the difference can sometimes help to start drilling where it matters. What do you need to make a rapid, informed assessment? Having seen a lot of rocks....(Ore targets)
Area and/or property selection. So Kyzylstan is suddenly open for investment. What opportunities does it offer? Is there a potential to find ore types the locals perhaps overlook? Of the list of properties offered for acquisition, which ones look interesting? Why, is there a similarity with profitable deposits elsewhere? I will sift through local library and archival materials provided they are in one of the many languages I can manage (e.g. Russian & Slavic in general; Spanish...), alternatively interpreters are usually easy to find. Then a field visit to see the facts and get the feeling. Yes, I can deliver sample sets with my report.
Mentoring, training, seminars, short courses. This I have done around the world, many times. Sponsor my field trip to sample for Data Metallogenica Original, anywhere, and send your junior geologist or a group with me to practice "reading the rocks" and developing a better feel for the geology around (read also Courses & lectures).
Material reduction and abstracting. So you run out of space with those 10 km of core, most of it monotonous, or boxes of rocks that have to go. Before you throw the stuff away or ship it to a government core library, why not to have a set of relevant miniaturized samples selected, organized, described, and mounted on page-size aluminium plates, LITHOTHEQUE style (read DataMet Original). I can handle it (Reduce, miniaturize).