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Consultancy and
client information (1990->): For current consultancy |
We offer
expert
and independent services in the evaluation of resources and reserves
using the facilities of statistics, geostatistics
and computer applications. We operate with the minimum of permanent staff,
drawing on the services of free-lance specialists when the need arises. Our
consultancy work is almost exclusively in the field of mineral resource and
reserve estimation. Most often, our involvement is at feasibility or even
pre-feasibility stage. However, we cover the whole spectrum of mineral
resource and reserve estimation, from bankable statement of fesibility study through to working at the grade control
stage in a producing mine. Within
this narrow field of specialisation, we have
experience in a wide variety of minerals and mining methods. Whilst the
earliest of our activities seem to have been concentrated on base and
low-concentration metals, more recent experience has been gained in the
evaluation of precious metals. Our first contact with coal applications dates
back to 1979, before the formal incorporation of Geostokos Limited. Mineralisation types range from stockwork
through hydrothermal veins to massive sulphides.
Mining methods included in various feasibility studies include back-stoping, cut and fill, open stoping,
room and pillar and (of course) open pit block-by-block evaluation. Since
setting up Geostokos Limited, our field of activities has widened a little to
include hydrogeology, environmental pollution and soil science parameters. In
particular, we were involved for four years in the study of a proposed site
for a high level nuclear waste repository in the |
