Consulting Services

Mineral
exploration

  • Field exploration management
  • Drilling programme management
  • Core logging and sampling
  • Drilling programme interpretation
  • Geological mapping and rock surface sampling
  • Mapping and sampling of detailed surface profiles
  • Writing of technical geological reports to NI 43-101 standards
  • Validation of technical geological reports to NI 43-101 standards

Lithogeochemical and petrological studies for mineral exploration

  • Rock definition and definition of chemostratigraphy
  • Definition of hydrothermal alteration by using mass change calculation techniques
  • Definition of rock types, and inventory of primary and alteration minerals
  • Optical microscopy, SEM and electron microprobe analysis and interpretation
  • Suggestion of drill targets based on stratigraphic and alteration trends

Sampling and quality control

  • Design for sampling programme
  • Implementation of quality control procedures
  • QA/QC reporting and writing of technical QA/QC reports to NI 43-101 standards

Data bases building and maintenance

  • Design of data bases
  • Interpretation of geological/geochemical data

Review of press releases/announcements and reporting

  • Reporting of field activities to authorities/management as a Qualified Person under NI 43-101 standards, (gold and base metals)
  • Review of technical information for press releases as a Qualified Person under NI 43-101 standards, (gold and base metals)

Courses/lectures/training/guiding

  • Courses in geochemical mineral exploration for industry, academia and government
  • Lectures in various geological subjects
  • Training of geologists and field assistants in exploration activities
  • Safety and logistics advising in polar regions
  • Geological guiding in polar regions

Since incorporation of Helvetica Exploration Services GmbH consulting services were provided to:

  • NunaMinerals A/S, Greenland
  • Boliden Mineral AB (Exploration department), Sweden
  • CumbrEX EXPLORACIONES S.A.C., Peru
  • Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark
  • Oceanwide Expeditions, Netherlands
  • Elgin Mining Inc., (now Mandalay Resources Corporation), Sweden, Canada
  • ARC, Iceland
  • Cold Rock Resources, Canada
  • 21st NORTH, Denmark
  • Materials innovation institute (M2i), ERA-MIN, Netherlands
  • Geological Survey of Ireland, Ireland
  • Nanoq Resources Ltd., UK
  • Endomines Oy, Finland
  • University of St Andrews, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Scotland, UK
  • Cardiff University, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Wales, UK
  • University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Denmark
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Geosciences, Germany
  • Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK
  • Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
  • Tillväxtverket, Sweden
  • AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
  • EIT RawMaterials GmbH, Berlin, Germany
  • Northern Shield Resources Inc., Canada
  • AEX GOLD INC., Canada
  • ERA-MIN2
  • Bluejay Mining plc

Since incorporation of Helvetica Exploration Services public presentations were given at:

  • Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Neuchâtel; talk, 60 minutes
  • 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 2017, poster
  • Bryan Lovell Meeting 2017: Mining for the Future, London, poster and talk (co-authored)
  • SEG Student Chapter at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK. 9.03.2017: ” Polar Exploration in Greenland: Knud Rasmussen the father of Eskimology and Alfred Wegener the father of plate tectonics”, talk
  • Seminar Talk for the “Mineralogisch/Geochemisches Seminar” at the Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
  • 14th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 2016, poster
  • North Atlantic Craton Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2016, talk and poster
  • SEG Student Chapter at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK. 5.01.2015: “Alfred Wegener – Greenlandic and Polar explorer and the father of plate tectonics”, talk
  • 12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2014, poster
  • Mineral resource assessment workshop on gold, GEUS, Copenhagen, 2014, talk
  • North Atlantic Craton Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2014, talk
  • 11th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013, talk
  • 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013, talk
  • Rohstoffpartner Grönland, Geokompetenzzentrum, Freiberg, Sachsen, 2013, talk
  • PDAC 2013, Toronto, March, 2013, “NunaMinerals gold prospects in Greenland”, talk
  • GEUS, Copenhagen, Ni-workshop November 2012, “The Bjørnesund Greenstone Belt – Evidence of Komatiite-hosted nickel mineralisations”, talk
  • Economic Geology Day II, 2012, GEUS, Copenhagen, Denmark, talk
  • SEG Student Chapter at the University of Geneva, March 2012, talk
  • Assessment of the zinc potential in Greenland workshop, GEUS, Copenhagen, November 2011, keynote talk
  • 11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, September, 2011, poster
  • National University of Cajamarca, Peru, October, 2011, talk

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