Best practice protocols and standard operating procedures

Life in mineral exploration can be tough at times, so why not to make it a bit easier for those who are just starting ? Time permitting, we will be posting here for free download some simple notes and best practice protocols, covering the basics in mineral exploration. We hope that these will prove useful and will contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and quality know-how. The list of the first topics to be covered follows, and the file notes already appended are highlighted in bold.

Available for download

Man in a sun hat standing in a stony desert with a mountain behind — Prospecting in stony desert terrain

Note 01HOW TO READ A SCIENTIFIC PAPER - A ONE-PAGE GUIDEPDF
Note 02SOME EXCELLENT GEOLOGY REFERENCE BOOKS – A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR BOOKSHELFPDF
Note 03ROCK-FORMING MINERALS IN THE FIELD - A BASIC INTRODUCTIONPDF
Note 04IDENTIFYING IGNEOUS ROCKS IN THE FIELD - A BASIC INTRODUCTIONPDF
Note 06A BRIEF GUIDE TO PROPERTY EVALUATIONPDF

In preparation

Handheld scintillometer on red-brown ground — Radiometric survey: a handheld scintillometer in use

Note 05IDENTIFYING ALTERATION STYLES IN THE FIELD
Note 07BASIC HEALTH & SAFETY PROTOCOL FOR FIELDWORK
Note 08SAFETY ADVICE REGARDING WORK IN CHALLENGING COUNTRIES
Note 09GEOPHYSICS-101
Note 10A THOROUGH DRILL-CORE LOGGING PROTOCOL

(more file notes will follow)

Man standing beside racks of drill core boxes in a core shed — In the core shed: logging and sampling drill core is at the heart of our work

Good observations should always be recorded separately from their interpretation, as this way they can always be reinterpreted in the future