HudBay Minerals wins award for pushing deep hole geophysics technology that led to discovery

March 9, 2010 Posted by AP

HudBay Minerals Inc.’s geophysics team, led by Alan Vowles, and its exploration team, headed by Kelly Gilmore, has presented with the Bill Dennis Award for a Canadian discovery by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). The award recognizes the company for its Lalor zinc discovery near Snow Lake, Manitoba, and presented on March 2, during the PDAC’s annual [...]

All That Glitters: Geophysical Exploration for Precious Metals

March 7, 2010 Posted by AP

it was a theme of Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society’s a timely and informative full-day symposium which took place yesterday in Toronto and timed to PDAC-2010. A roster of noted industry experts presented papers focussing on exploration and extraction of gold, silver, and platinum group metals. The symposium included an introductory overview of key geological aspects of important [...]

16th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium

March 4, 2010 Posted by AP
16th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium

The 16th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium, jointly sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the Denver Geophysical Society, will be held 16 March 2010 at the Marriott City Center in Denver, USA. This year’s theme “Uplifting the Rockies” has attracted 13 presentations that focus on both Rockies case histories and the latest North [...]

Some of the latest inventions of Fugro Airborne

March 4, 2010 Posted by AP

Airborne electromagnetic (EM) survey system – US Patent Issued on January 12, 2010
Inventors: Miles, Philip J.; Berringer, Jason; Hodges, David G.; Wolfgram, Peter A.
An airborne electromagnetic survey system for conducting geological mapping is disclosed. A transmitter closed loop structure is used in the system and is designed for connection to a towing airborne vehicle. [...]

GRAVITY SURVEY FOR CHROME TARGETS IN THE RING OF FIRE

March 3, 2010 Posted by AP

MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. announces that it has contracted Abitibi Géophysique Inc. to conduct a gravity survey on land-based targets on the Hornby mineral claims, jointly owned by Temex Resources and MacDonald Mines, and on the Company’s 100% owned BigMac Property.
These claims are interpreted to host the potential for a chromite horizon(s). The Hornby Property [...]

Airborne gravity, EM and magnetic survey over the Paulatuk gravity anomaly

March 3, 2010 Posted by AP

Darnley Bay Resources has outlined its 2010 exploration plans for its properties in the Paulatuk NT area. It has completed permitting for airborne surveys to take place in March-April 2010.
Sander Geophysics is preparing to mobilize to Paulatuk for a 5,980 line-km airborne gravity and magnetic survey covering all of the Darnley’s Bay properties where they encompass [...]

Ground Geophysics on the Moon

March 2, 2010 Posted by AP

The meeting at Lunar and Planetary Institute was held on January 2010. About seismic, magnetic, gravity, electromagnetic methods on the Moon: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lunargeo2010/pdf/program.pdf

Geoscience Australia’s Continental Geophysics project is continued

March 1, 2010 Posted by AP

The project is an active concentration of specialists engaged in the acquisition, processing, archiving, enhancement, presentation and interpretation in the fields of airborne geophysics and gravity. They also are involved in the development of new computational methods which can be applied to geophysical data.
Project outputs 2009-10

Updates to National Geophysical Databases
New OESP geophysical datasets
Updates to the Australian Fundamental [...]

The nearest Geophysics Seminar in Toronto

February 26, 2010 Posted by AP

“Improved methods for interpreting magnetic gradient tensor data” David Clark, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering (Australia).
17-Mar-2010  from 16:00 to 17:00 , Department of Physics of U of T.
Recent technological advances suggest that we are on the threshold of a new era in applied magnetic surverys, where acquisition of magnetic gradient tensor data will become routine. In the meantime, modern ultrahigh resolution [...]

About accuracy of proton magnetometers

February 26, 2010 Posted by AP

Ivan Hrvoic, President of GEM, explains REQUIREMENTS FOR OBTAINING HIGH ACCURACY WIТН PROTON MAGNEТOMERS.
Absolute accuracy of а measurement is the difference between measured and true values. Obviously, nobody knows the true value, so we end up defining the limits we know the true value must be within. Absolute accuracy of а measurement is the difference between measured and true values.Obviously, [...]