Providing enhanced exploration services across Alaska

Alaska is home to a wealth of mineral resources, from Red Dog in northern Alaska producing over 5% of the world’s zinc annually, to world-famous gold deposits such as Pogo Mine south of Fairbanks. Continued development of infrastructure (the Ambler Road project) together with world-class deposits spurs ongoing mineral exploration projects throughout the state. Common tools for initial geophysical exploration include several methods listed below with suitable applications:

Magnetotellurics (MT) - we use the new EH5 MT instrument for enhanced data quality and speed of acquisition.
Ground-penetrating radar - Many applications including depth to bedrock for imaging paleochannels in placer mining and permafrost mapping. We have frequencies in house from 1000- to 25-MHz.
Seismic imaging - primarily used for mapping depth to bedrock, bedrock competency, and rippability.
Induced polarization (IP) - IP is commonly used to image geologic features such as massive sulfides that are often correlated with mineralization.
Electrical resistivity - material resistivity can reflect mineralization. These surveys are often performed in conjunction with IP surveys.
Gravity methods - Gravity surveys are often used for mineral deposit exploration since the host material often has markedly different density to the background material.

Contact us to discuss your potential geophysical exploration project. We have expertise with advanced data processing and remote operations throughout the state, enabling us to provide you with the best results possible for your money! We can also reprocess legacy data together with new data or on its own, to maximize your productivity with minimum costs.