Gold and Platinum
The exploration and development of gold deposits goes back many centuries, but after a period of relative inactivity caused by low prices, the recent price rises has caused a significant rise in exploration and development activity. The long history of gold mining has enabled geoscientists to recognise the wide variety of types of mineralisation, the geological processes important in their genesis and the optimum methods of exploration to be utilised for their successful discovery. A C A Howe geologists have been active in many parts of the world applying these methods for their international clients and have an enviable success rate in the delivery of gold deposits. All stages of the industry have been covered in this work from area selection through mine planning to mine management as shown from the following selected examples:

	Target selection and grass roots exploration leading to the development of a major epithermal gold mine in Indonesia. Investigation of other epithermal deposits in Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, CIS, Canada and the USA
	Trench mapping and analysis of the structural controls of an Archaean gold deposit in Venezuela
	Mapping and field supervision of a gold exploration project in Georgia
	Detailed field evaluation of gold mining prospects in Egypt
	Geological mapping, geophysical surveys, diamond drill supervision and reserve estimation of a number of Archaean greenstone-hosted gold deposits in northern Ontario and Quebec
	Review and management of major exploration projects in Finland, Portugal, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Australia
	Preparation of a review of the geology and controls of gold mineralisation in West Africa
	Exploration and reserve estimation of a large number of alluvial gold deposits in the USA, Scotland, Bolivia, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Indonesia, leading to production in the latter country
	Technical audit of a producing gold mine in Sudan for a major UK bank
	Area selection and exploration leading to the establishment of a new gold mine in Ivory Coast
	Management of a small producing gold mine in the Witwatersrand
	Mapping, sampling and reserve estimation at an open-pit gold mine in Mexico
	Evaluation of Lower Palaeozoic gold deposits in Scotland, Nova Scotia, Spain, Portugal, France and Australia
	Full feasibility study on open-pit gold mining operation in northern Portugal
	Competent persons' report on the Kroondal platinum mine and Marikana mining prospect
	Review of a platinum exploration project, Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario
	Reserve estimation for feasibility study of Saskatchewan gold mine and subsequent mining reserve audit for more than 10 years
	Geological review, monitoring of exploration and resource estimation of PGE deposits and prospects in the Soloview Hill area of the southern Urals, Russia