GISL Exploration Field School
An Intensive practical field training with the following goals:
- To improve Professional Skills
- To enhance Digital Geological Mapping Skills
- To enhance Geophysical data Acquisition Skills, processing and Interpretation
- To learn XRF Geochemical Sampling and Analysis
- To understand Prospectivity Mapping and Mineral targeting
- To improve technical reporting
What you will learn
Module 1: Digital Geological Mapping and Prospecting
- Preparation of field base maps
- Digital geological mapping
- Discrete Field data collection
- Field Data Management in a GIS
- Structural Mapping
Module 2: Exploration Geophysical Methods
- Geophysical Survey Planning and Design
- Geophysical Equipment set-up and handling
- Geophysical data collection - magnetic, electromagnetic, induced polarization, resistivity and gravity methods
- Processing, modelling and interpretation of geophysical data
Module 3: Geochemical data collection and analysis
- Rock and Soil sampling
- Stream sediment sampling
- Panning stream sediments
- XRF survey
- Analysis and Interpretation of assay data
Module 4: Data integration and interpretation
- Integration of geological, geophysical and geochemical dataset
- Prospectivity mapping and mineral targeting
- 3-D geological and geophysical modeling
- Introduction to drilling and resource evaluation methods
- Technical presentation and reporting
