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VMS exploration: New life for old camps

VMS exploration: New life for old camps

Virginia Heffernan

With a tendency to be small, zinc-rich and sometimes difficult to process, Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) deposits fell out of favour in the low metal price environment that characterized the late 1990s and early 2000s. But with increasing demand for base metals - including zinc, an early laggard in the metals revival - explorers are returning to some of the old Canadian mining camps... [Continue reading this article]

Transforming data into discovery

Transforming data into discovery: Vale's vision to turn exploration information into a corporate asset

Earth Explorer Q&A

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale), the second-largest diversified mining and metals company in the world, is turning exploration information into a corporate asset, with a solution that focuses on three simple goals: quality, security and flow. [Continue reading this article]

Exploration and GIS

Exploration and GIS: Closing the Productivity Gap

Virginia Heffernan

Exploration software and GIS are essential for geologists searching for petroleum and mineral deposits. With discoveries harder to find, geoscientists are collecting more data than ever before and examining their findings with greater scrutiny. [Continue reading this article]

Software review: Next generation technology enhances data access and insight into the subsurface

Software review: Next generation technology enhances data access and insight into the subsurface

Opal Aristizabal

To help focus their exploration, earth scientists and exploration companies need to fully leverage the value of all available data. Many Government Geological Surveys have deployed Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and are using ESRI’s GIS platform to publish their geological data. [Continue reading this article]