Australasian Projects
With the combination of an established mining and exploration sector and dynamic emerging markets, Australasia has historically been a focus for the mineral resource sector. Australia alone hosts the worlds largest known economic resources for bauxite, iron ore, lead, zinc, silver, uranium, industrial diamonds and mineral sands, and exploration throughout Australasia continues to uncover world class deposits.

Howe staff have extensive knowledge of the Australasian region, working on a number of exploration projects and the development of mines. Here are some examples:

Australia	Geological mining and metalurgical due diligence of gold and nickel operations for AIM listing Evaluation of operation for a gold mine in Wertern Australia Appraisal of porphyry copper prospects in NSW (2005) Full geological, mining and due diligence of operating tin mine and processing facilities for major financing and AIM listing in Tasmania (2000) Evaluation of lower Palaeozoic gold deposits in Western Australia (1970-71 and 1983-85) Identification of the property and direction of the exploration programme which resulted in the discovery of the Jabiluka uranium orebody (1971)
Indonesia	Identification, Banka drilling, pitting and reserve estimation of a number of alluvial gold deposits in Kalimantan including one deposit brought to production and another to feasibility (1997) Detailed geological review of several properties in Kalimantan containing a number of epithermal gold deposits (1997) Regional exploration for Miocene coal deposits in southeastern Kalimantan (1981)
Papua New Guinea	Technical evaluation and audits of volcanic hosted gold deposits
Philippines	Reconnaissance and review of gold prospects in relation to Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (2000) Geological review, ore body modelling and resource estimation of four operating underground and open pit gold mines in the central Philippines and Luzon areas (1994-97)
Vietnam	Geological assessment of gold and base metal deposits for AIM listing (2003-04) Review of geology and an interpretation of airborne geophysics for gold and tungsten targets (2000)