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MINERAL
INVENTORY
EXPLORATION SIGNIFICANT TRENDS AND DIRECTIONS
SEA WATER MINING
MARINE
MINING OIL SANDS
MORE AT POLICY AND LEGISLATION
EXPLORATION
SENEGAL - Massawa
comes into limelight with the discovery
of substantial mineralization
With continued drilling programs pointing out towards mineralization of
gold closer to the surface and persisting to 180 M probed as well as
panning in all directions, the region gets a thrust in infra-structure
and is expected to be a focal point in the future.
02082008
ONTARIO/CANADA - Bamoos-Claw
Lake-Four Dams Property
Marathon PGM Corporation take up further
drilling with
the intercepts and ongoing
drill results confirming
the PGM and Au and copper mineralization
CHINA - Ningxia
Yanchi coal reserves
Ningxia Geology and
Environment Monitoring Department places the resources at 200 million
tonnes which could be the first large-scale coal production facility in
Ningxia. With an extent of 25 square kilometer, the occurrence is
estimated over 12 layers with a maximum thickness of 6.26 meters. One
third of the deposit is expected to contain coking coal
NAMIBIA - extending
undersea mineral wealth
Bonaparte Diamond Mining ,
Australia's only marine diamond miner announces the potential to mine
marine phosphates as an extension of its diamond mining and continuing
exploration.. Marine diamond mining is established in Namibia and the
operations 40 kms off the coast is not expected to pose additional
environmental issues. The current practice is to backfill the mined
surface with all the dredged material except the final product and allow
the natural rebuild.
SOUTH AFRICA - Mira
prospect resource augmentation
The resources augmentation program of Kalahari
Platinum Project involving
drilling over a strike length of 400m has been encouraging and indicate
continuous mineralization
04052008
Significant trends and directions in mineral exploration
Mineral exploration
is an ongoing process. The financing of the programs sometimes becomes
restrictive and directly impacts the time frame, degree of detailing and
sometimes even postponing or canceling the programs as well. joint
ventures and assistance from Government and other agencies come to the
rescue of some major projects and allow free hand to the explorer at
site to carry in-depth.
Some diversified
projects which are promising and also point to greater potential.
Abithibi Greenstone Belt
Wallbridge and Noranda joins hand in exploring the potential of the Abithibi
Greenstone belt in north Ontario.
Casa Berardi fault
Aurizon's promising intersections south of the Casa
Berardi fault.
Las Cristinas gold project in Venezuela
Developments in the Alaskan mineral industry.
Bella Maria- Equador
South African mineral resources
Here is a link to an interesting
paper on Management practices applied to exploration
Major minerals of NSW - a map
IS IT THE TURN OF
SEA-WATER MINING NOW?
Sea water mining?
The notion of a workable and economical deposit has already changed and
with the depletion of concentrated deposits, threshold deposits and even
marginal deposits are vanishing. Turning to sea from land is already in
place with sea-bed mining focusing on ocean floors. While the impact of
sea-bed mining is yet to come to full grasp, the mineral contents of sea
water indicate dissolved salts in a range of 33 to 37 grams per liter
making the ocean a possible resource to almost fifty quadrillion tons of
dissolved material as discussed in the sourced article once the
extraction methodology is tackled.
27092008
Marine mining - Shape of things to come?
Quoting successful marine mining elsewhere like in Alaska and Siberia,
An International
Company with a prospecting license hopes to make a success in the
west coast bringing marine
mining to Australia and New Zealand. Shallow core drilling of 6
meters is planned after a detailed seismic survey. Traditionally a alluvial
gold mining territory, the west coast is believed to have the
potential of washed out sediments deposited in the sea bed. There is
hope on the technology this time and there is also a necessity to
address the environmental concerns.marine
geology geological
map of New Zealand
also: integrated
ocean drilling program and ocean core complex
Oil Sands
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta - Profitable oil sands
May be the technology breakthrough is responsible for the emerging "oil
sands"
projects and increasing trend in investment. Here is a source for vision
2020 aiming to treble the present output
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