TOUCHSTONES-GOLD® Collaborative Design

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For Collaborative Research, Development, Design, Examination,  Discovery

Regional to zone-scale gold distributions in large-scale, Archean (and younger) silicate systems

Related technical and research themes:

Historical, Early Stage, Development Project;  Production, Exploration, Research and Strategy

"predictive discovery" for mineral exploration, for zone and deposit definition

data compilation, extraction of  historical exploration, drilling, mapping and research (pre-drilling phase, high value) data

data capture- custom template design; keyword, picklist and graphic symbol library development

data capture- custom core logging and optimization

data organization- database, digital compilation, sorting, cross-referencing

data analysis- mineralization patterns and indices of mineralization potential;

data analysis- visualization methods, interactive and dynamic data and statistics integration

data integration and correlation of secondary data- geophysical, remote sensing

data integration of other geochemical, geological, thermobarometric data

data "verification",  quality analysis and control,  protocol and procedures

identification, measurement and control of geological risks and biases in mineral exploration, mining

certified reference material ("standard"), blank and quality control samples

integration of assay, whole rock analysis, petrographic and petrofabric (matrix, structural) controls

silicate component distributions- dispersion, central tendencies, modalities (chemical, mineral,  lithological; natural, taxonomic )

physico-chemical geology; thermodynamics of large- scale silicate systems and mineralized zones (equilibrium, nonequilibrium; reversible, irreversible; linear, nonlinear; classical / CIT, extended /EIT; continuum);

controlled, quantitative estimation of mineralization efficiency;

mineral distribution-resource-reserve-bias-risk comprehensive evaluation

mineral exploration and mining productivity, optimization

mineral property, portfolio structure, bias and risk evaluation

mineral project strategy and generation

mineral sector policy analyses and alignment

*TOUCHSTONES-GOLD is a registered trademark (1995) of Julius Hava.  

Professional geoscience services are provided exclusively by Julius Hava P.Geo. 2004 (Ontario S.O. 2000, c 13)

Last revised: February 17, 2010