Mineral Exploration Project Planning

Designing exploration projects is all about understanding the logistical conditions and finding a suitable balance between the available budget, available time and desired outcomes. Things don’t always go as they are planned in the field, especially in those tricky remote locations and putting sound contingencies in place to safeguard the deliverables is not always easy.

Successful exploration relies on efficiently interpreting geological, geochemical, and geophysical data then applying the results to the generation and testing of exploration targets.

We have planned, prepared, executed and publicly reported substantial exploration programmes. These have included green fields mapping and geochemical sampling programmes, scout drilling and full regional exploration drilling programmes.

Often, smaller companies may not have the technical staff in-house to carry out its intended exploration programmes. Our consultants have relevant experience with most commodities and mineralisation styles and have run these kinds of programmes everywhere in the world. Campaign-style, success-driven or otherwise, we can design any exploration programme to suit your requirements.

Larger companies may sometimes not have the relevant staff on the books to carry out a drilling programme if it is unexpected or if part of a new initiative that wasn’t planned at the start of the budget year. ARCHEAN can take all the hassle of management, overheads, OHS, IT, visas, equipment, sub-contractors away and implement a full exploration programme, with directives clearly set by the client.

Our experts are experienced in designing, scheduling, and costing as well as implementing and supporting exploration programmes. This may require setting up temporary, mobile, or permanent field camps for 100 people or more in inaccessible locations. We recruit staff, procure goods and services, and organise logistics, transportation, communication, medical care, and security. Through efficient organisation and management of daily operations, we play a vital role in achieving exploration project success.

For all our full project management work we pride ourselves on our communication of progress, results and expenditure. We provide daily one-page reports with up-to-date sampling or drilling and safety information, and weekly technical reports with sections and maps showing the progress and most important findings to date. We track budget versus expenditure on a weekly basis to make sure that as a client, you are always up to date.

We also conduct economic assessments and project evaluations and will help you obtain regulatory permits in a cost- and time-efficient manner.