“Quantec said they could actually couple their deep MT, their high resolution IP and resistivity - of which we hadn’t conducted in detail on any of on the Trek property - with drill results from portions of the surveys,” says Close. “So it was an excellent opportunity to do all three, allowing us to associate any anomalies, or lack thereof that appeared with data we already had and project into new territory.”
Close describes the benefits that Titan24 brought. “It’s a highly sensitive system,” he says. “So it accurately reflects an interplay among the mineralization, alteration, structure and geology of the deposits; when coupled with different reference information like drilling or geochemistry, the survey provides a complete exploration picture.”
“Titan24 is a proven system in a mine site environment so you can come up with some good data out of what is normally a noisy environment.”
They had nothing but a large soil anomaly, on which Close says “it’s hard to find funding to drill anomalous soils.” So they ran a single Titan24 line across the zone. It revealed a one-to-one correlation among all three DC, IP and MT surveys, exposing a deeper anomaly connected with the anomalous soils at surface. “That single line added enough confidence for us to attract investors to the potential of this new area,” says Close. “It brought us a wealth of possibilities. Really, to me, Titan24 is the new wave of ground geophysics.”
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