Northern Shield Resources Inc. announces the intersection of significant visible gold during the first phase of a 3,000 metre drilling program being carried out this spring at the Wabassi VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) project located in northwestern Ontario. The Wabassi project is being explored under a 49/51 JV with Discovery Harbor Resource Corp. In the [...]

Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. announced a drilling update on the 100% owned Albany (Hydrothermal) Graphite Deposit, located in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The first drill hole (Z13-4F10) intersected 363 metres (‘m’) of graphite mineralization from 47.0 m to 410.0 m.  This represents the widest zone of graphite material intersected to date on the Albany deposit.  The hole, [...]

Mr. Greg A. Shore, (P.Geo., Premier Geophysics Inc., Aurora, Ontario) is going to make a presentation: “New depths of insight from the 3D earth imagery delivered by 3D DC data acquisition systems:  field case examples from Nevada, New Zealand and British Columbia” Date: Tuesday 14 May, 2013 @ 4:00PM Venue: ESC 2093, Department of Earth [...]

MS Ventures Inc. updates shareholders on the progress of its winter drill programs. The Company has completed drill testing its 100%-owned base metal massive sulphide-type targets in the Snow Lake greenstone belt of Manitoba and several targets in the North Range of the Sudbury Basin, Ontario. All targets in Manitoba have been selected for drill [...]

IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has published a book “Advances in Airborne and Ground Geophysical Methods for Uranium Exploration”. “Due to growing global energy demand, many countries have seen a rise in uranium exploration activities in the past few years, and newly designed geophysical instruments and their application in uranium exploration are contributing to an [...]

CAMAC Energy Inc.  has announced that Sander Geophysics Limited (“SGL”) has completed shooting  airborne gravity and magnetic geophysical surveys on the Company’s Kenya onshore Lamu Basin Blocks L1B and L16 (“Blocks”). The data acquisition covers essentially the entire 12,129 square kilometers in Block L1B and the entire 3,613 square kilometers in Block L16 and satisfies [...]

Cassini Resources (ASX: CZI) has defined a large scale high priority nickel-copper sulphide exploration target in a recent versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) geophysical survey over its West Musgrave Project in Western Australia. Source.. The company believes the West Musgrave Project has the potential to host another large nickel-copper sulphide deposit such as BHP Billiton’s nearby [...]

A short course on the why, how, and what of geophysical inversion Presented by the B.C. Geophysical Society This is a 2-day workshop consisting of 1 day of lectures (April 24th) followed by a 1 day hands-on workshop (either April 25th or 26th). Delegates can register for just the lectures or both the lectures and [...]

HARTE GOLD CORP. provides an update of current operations at the Sugar Zone Property. VTEM Target Drilling Harte Gold has completed a four hole diamond drill program on the Ni-Cu VTEM anomaly located at the north end of the Dayhossarah lake on Harte Gold’s Sugar Zone Property. The drilling discovered a broad zone of semi [...]

Precious Metal Resources has highlighted the deep base metal potential for large sedimentary exhalative system mineralisation at its Halls Peak project in New South Wales following airborne survey. The tests point to similarities to world class base metal mines including Mt Isa, McArthur River and Cannington. The conductive zones recorded at depths of around 400 [...]

GoldON Resources begins 2013 Exploration on Swayze Gold Property in Ontario’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt – Video Summary on www.investmentpitch.com Based on interpretation of airborne geophysical data, GoldON Resources’ independent geological consultant has identified a priority area for the next phase of exploration on the company’s 100% owned Swayze Gold Property. The 6,640 hectare Swayze Project, [...]

Recent airborne geophysical surveys near Decorah, Iowa are providing an unprecedented look at a 470- million-year-old meteorite crater concealed beneath bedrock and sediments. The aerial surveys, a collaboration of the U.S. Geological Survey with the Iowa and Minnesota Geological Surveys, were conducted in the last 60 days to map geologic structures and assess the mineral and [...]

- ——————————————————————– Airborne EM methods: be wary of relying on the tried and true MARCH 8, 2013 EXPERTISE Matching an exploration target with a geophysical technique can be tricky for an explorer, partly because there are so many options available and partly because there can be significant differences in rock properties even among the same deposit [...]

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Acquisition and Analysis of Terrestrial Gravity Data Leland Timothy Long, Georgia Institute of Technology Ronald Douglas Kaufmann, Spotlight Geophysical Services Gravity surveys have a huge range of applications, indicating density variations in the subsurface and identifying man-made structures, local changes of rock type or even deep-seated structures at the crust/mantle boundary. This important one-stop book [...]

Canadian Platinum Corp. announces the commencement of a drilling program to drill test two VTEM anomalies associated with the Allen Lake Magnetic anomaly in the Peter Lake Project for the presence of Cu/Ni/PGE mineralization.  The program will test the anomaly with three drill holes totaling 1000 m. In late 2011 CPC carried out a 1513.4 [...]

Adventure Gold Inc. announces the commencement of a significant exploration program on its 100%-owned Detour Quebec project along the Detour Gold Trend (“DGT”) in Abitibi, Quebec. The exploration program will consist of airborne and ground geophysical surveys on the best targets identified last year following a comprehensive geological modeling of the DGT. A helicopter-borne electromagnetic [...]