Seismic solutions as mining goes deeper and cleaner.

“Hi Matt [Lawrence], Just wanted to say how impressed Adam [Kennedy] and I are with your efficiency, communication and professionalism both prior to, and while conducting our survey. It’s been a pleasure working with you and we can’t wait to see the results the survey generates!” 

“The information obtained provides an extremely valuable insight into the key features that control the mineralisation of the Hillside copper deposit. Additionally, the information obtained shows features which are known to be associated with mineralisation extending well away from existing drilling, confirming potential extensional drill targets.”

“We already know that structures control the high-grade copper zones at Hillside and now we can see a series of these structures radiating away from a large body at depth which we believe may be an intrusive. This could be the source of the copper at Hillside… This recent 3D seismic survey could be a game changer for Rex.” 

“IGO’s Nova deposit has become a testing ground for the company’s geophysical exploration. The company has been pushing the envelope with geophysical technology, successfully creating a high-resolution 3D seismic cube that has been accurate beyond its expectations – an achievement chief geophysicist Andrew Fitzpatrick believes is just scratching the surface.”

“The 3D seismic survey has been, according to Mr Fitzpatrick, the real game-changer to brownfields exploration.”

“From my perspective, hard rock seismic is gaining momentum, where our other geophysical methods lack the resolution and depth of investigation to adequately define geology at depth.”

“The information seismic surveying give us is unparalleled technically in my view, let alone providing, on a bang-for-buck cost basis, a very, very good data set for the money that you spend”….“With the first drill hole into the 3D seismic data set we made a new discovery – the very first hole – and we’ve now drilled eight holes into it and we haven’t missed it in a single hole.”  

“At Plutonic… (W)e did a 2D seismic line at Pegasus in the Kundana belt, and the historic view is that in very steeply dipping structures you don’t get a lot of information, but the early signs from the 2D seismic at Kundana will probably lead us to do a 3D as it very very clearly showed the structures and enhanced the targets that they are drilling”.  

“Another innovation is the 3D seismic survey carried out at the site last year… The resulting dataset is of a high quality and has been interpreted to create a structural model that has facilitated cost-effective planning of deep drill holes as well as providing important geotechnical and structural information.” 

“Significantly the 3D seismic survey maps the location of both known fault/vein systems as well as a significant number of other faults likely to host epithermal veins. This is potentially a breakthrough technology to map complex fault and vein systems and together with other geologic parameters directly target parts of the fault likely to host gold mineralisation.” 

“The value we get from using the 3D seismic has been absolutely tremendous in terms of, moving forward, how much value we are deriving from our exploration spend,” “It’s just such a compelling value proposition for all mining companies.”  

“The introduction of innovative seismic and other technologies will allow us to significantly improve the probability of making a discovery. At Pajingo and Cracow, drilling along the 2D seismic lines showed that zones of clay alteration spatially associated with mineralised faults and the larger epithermal system can be accurately interpreted from the seismic sections.” 

“Northern Star used the seismic method with great success to map deep structures down plunge from the mineralisation at Paulsen’s gold mine resulting in a new orebody being discovered… We see seismic as one of the tools in our arsenal which will significantly extend the life of these assets.” 

“Asia Iron Australia found HiSeis Pty Ltd to be very professional in how they conducted their business from first engagement through to the review of the completed deliverables. Preliminary data from the first part of the test line was made available within a very short turn around which allowed Asia Iron Australia to make the decision to extend the survey to the 5 other planned lines.” 

 “A high-resolution 3D seismic survey has now been completed over a 21 square kilometre area surrounding the Neves-Corvo mine. Preliminary results have clearly imaged the major Semblana deposit, verifying the effectiveness of this new tool in the search for blind massive sulphide deposits.”