The Moran nickel orebody (June 2009 resource est. 456,000t @ 7.1% Ni for 32,400t contained Ni metal) was discovered in 2008 when underground drill-hole LSU-152 intersected a 12.3 m thick interval of mineralisation with an average grade of 6.0% Ni. The discovery drill-hole had been designed to test a strong conductor detected by transient electromagnetic surveys read in … Continue reading Moran nickel sulphide orebody discovery using DHTEM
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I spent August-November 2016 in the eastern end of the Altai Mountains in Ömnögovi Aimag, helping a Logantek Mongolia LLC geophysics crew to read a fixed-loop transient electromagnetic survey in some pretty rough terrain, and providing real-time reporting of results and interpretation to the client. We succeeded in locating a potentially significant extension to a prospect, … Continue reading Fixed-loop TEM for VMS in the Gobi Desert