Latest News From Terra Resources
Below you will find up-to-date news from the Terra Resources team along with articles of interest
Vulcan West Priority Sulphide Target Confirmed by Infill EM
Terra Resources is assisting Enterprise Metals with their ongoing exploration in the Bryah Basin and acted as project manager for the recently completed MLEM survey at Vulcan and Borg prospects. Terra modelled and interpreted the new EM data and included it in a 3D compilation with the existing magnetic, gravity, drilling, geochemistry and geology data. This work has led to the identification of a high priority sulphide target at Vulcan West. For further details please see the ASX release from Enterprise... read more
Ground Geophysical Survey Safety Association
Terra Resources is pleased to now be associated with the Ground Geophysical Survey Safety Association (GGSSA). The GGSSA was formed in 2011 with the aim of developing Industry Guidelines for ground geophysical surveys. It is the aim of the association to: Develop Guidelines for safe operation of ground geophysical surveys Serve as a centre for exchange of safety information Promote safe effective ground geophysical surveys practices Barry has recently joined the GGSSA as a technical committee... read more
Presentation – The Geophysical Response of Intrusion Related Gold
Barry presented at the ASEG WA technical night on Wednesday the 12th August at the new Minespace venue. He spoke to a full house on “The Geophysical Response of Intrusion Related Gold with an Example from Okvau, Cambodia”. A copy of his presentation is available on the Presenations page of the Terra Resources... read more
April 2015 Okhostsk-Chukotka (Russia)
A recent trip to the Okhostsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt in Russia to look at low sulphidation epithermal deposits in the region was truely amazing. Who would of thought that within 3m of +5Moz of gold you could find un altered andesitic volcanics? I hope you enjoy the photos. Baz ... read more
August 2006 Peeva Spaseeba (Kazakhstan)
Peeva spaseeba, probably the first two words you should know in Russian, beer please (not necessarily in that order mind you). I suppose this sets the tone for what I am about to write. I haven’t put togther a travel note since some of my early visits to Africa but as this was my first trip to the FSU (former Soviet Union) so why not?
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August 2006 Pa-Rooskee Nyet (Moscow)
I arrived in Moscow with a couple of local guys. We quickly made our way through customs and found our driver and walked around to the car. Gold 4WD Lexus with black non-see through tinting (nice ride) and my first time in Moscow had the mind working over time… KGB? nah. I later found out our driver had been with the company for about 10 years. He had all sorts of “tactical” driver driver training from the days when security was more of issue. We hit it off pretty well when we started talking about cars, motorbikes and snow mobiles (in broken English and my four words of Russian). It seems as though cubic centimeters and km/hour are some sort of international language. He was a rev head at heart. Later this worked to our advantage when we were running late to the airport. The Lexus (and driver) moved like clock work through the traffic. I checked into my hotel downtown on the way to the office (nice). You have to travel everywhere with your passport in Russia as well as have it registered at every hotel you stay at. Customs give you a bit of paper when you enter the country that hotels/police etc are supposed to stamp to keep a record of your movements. On the way out they take it from you. Our Moscow office is about the same size as our Perth office. The people there were great. I caught up on some emails for the first time in a week. I was given a quick guide to Moscow. I planned to take a walk... read more
A week out of Africa… (Toulouse)
Well the routine is usually a flight back to Johburg, stay for a day or two to catch up with contractors and then head back home. This time my trip coincides with a little bike race in France, the 100th year of the tour de France! I had decided to head up to France to catch some of the racing before heading to Johburg. I was meeting up with some friends (Lyndon and Kate) from the UK who were heading to Toulouse. Toulouse was the perfect spot to catch 3 days of racing. The start and end of two stages, and the individual time trial (about an hour out of town). Toulouse is the capital of the Midi-Pyrenees and the largest city in the southwest of France. It is also the summer home to Stuart o’Grady one of Australia best cyclists. Toulouse is renowned for it’s high-tech industries, including some of Europe’s most advanced aerospace facilities and birthplace of the Concorde. It is close to the Pyrenees (Spanish border) so there is a big Spanish influence. Toulouse is historically known as la ville rose (the pink city) after the colour of the local brick. It’s funny no matter how much you prepare yourself for another country the language is the first thing that hits you. In most popular tourist destinations ie. Paris you can get by with English. Now that I am in Toulouse I have only met one person that could speak a little English, it was now sink or swim. I have been just getting by with a few numbers, a pleasant greeting (bonjour/bonsoir) and the odd... read more
Yet another week in Africa…
I better not stay too much longer as I will be running out of things to put in front of “week in Africa”. There is however always plenty to write about if you can be bothered. I am on the way back to the central part of Tanzania (Bulyanhulu). There was an “incident” at the drillers camp the other day. In just about every remote place in Tanzania I can think of that has some sort of developement or permanent fixture, locals move in looking for work or to sell goods. The work locals are after can vary from security to manual labour (gardener, cleaner, carpenter etc). Goods sold can be bananas, bags of potatoes or rice. People literally come from 100’s of miles on foot. It just so happened a grass hut bar (and brothel) sprung up near the drillers camp. One of the drillers went down there and got drunk, came back to camp, had an arguement with one of the cleaners and decided to pull a knife. The situation was diffused very quickly (Ghurkhas-correct spelling). When I went running past that evening all I saw was a guy handcuffed in back of a Toyota. He was taken to jail the next day. The justice system here is difficult to understand. If you are taken to jail and have money then you can usually pay your way out. If you don’t then you are either beaten or raped (if you are female). This may sound harsh but let me assure you it is a fact of life here. This is the side of Africa you hear stories... read more
2003 Another week in Africa…
There is nothing like a 7 hour drive on shitty roads to stiffen you up. It is a drive that I wouldn’t like to do everyday as the drivers here are merciless machines. They would drive for days on end if you asked them to. Everyone here has a specific task to do and most take pride in what they do. For example if a vehicle is assigned a driver then that is there job and nothing else. When the vehicle is not being driven it is being washed and wiped over. Come to think of it is sounds like me and my new bike. While driving along there is always plenty to see. It is fruit season here at the moment. Huge mango trees dot the landscape. They are as big as houses. I’d hate to be the one that has to climb to the top to get the fruit but you can be sure that someone will. Mango stalls are set up along the side of the road. Usually there is minimum of 10 peole gathered around talkng. Pineapples and bananas are the other fresh fruit available. I’ve never eaten fresh pineapples like these anywhere, they are fantastic when they are in season. I try to snack on fruit when I can but it is only available in our camps on certain days so it is not always possible. Well it happens on every trip. Its gets to a certain point when food tends to flow through you. Not constantly mind you (hope nobody is eating) as you still eat normally and there is no pain but... read more
July 2003 A Week in Africa
The flight to Johburg was as per usual uneventful. It’s been a while since I’ve travelled so I hadn’t seen too many recent movies (managed to cram in three). One of the claims to fame (about the only ones) the South Africans have is ther wine. The pinotages are generally excellent. All the good ones seem to come from the Cape (Town) Region. Arrived in Johburg tired but amazed. I watched the guy in front of me at Johburg airport trying to give/stuff the customs agent cash to let them through (they were of middle eastern decent!). In the end they let him pass through! Johburg is the only place you can be garanteed of losing your bag at some stage or other. On one occation flying into Johburg they dropped a full bus load of peolple that flew international into the domestic arrivals. Peolple just walked through, no customs or bag. It wasn’t until they realised that everyone (that they could find) had to go back. The next day was Tanzania. When I arrived in Tanzania I was stuck at the airport for 3 hours waiting for peolple to get out of the bagage and visa cues. This is typical. It helps if you have $US cash handy for such occasions (visa probs that is). Hard to describe first impressions of Dar Es Salaam (Dar). The first thing that hits you is the humidity. Hot sweaty, dirty…a run down Bali is close. I managed a quick swim at the pool when I got to the hotel (50 min trip from airport). I was invited (with half the hotel)... read more
Magnetization Vector Inversion lends confidence to 3D modelling of mineral projects in South America
Alumbre covers a Cu-Au-Mo porphyry system that has never been systematically explored for porphyry style deposits. Geophysicist Barry Bourne, with Terra Resources Pty Ltd, re-interpreted the company’s historical ground based magnetic data with the MVI methodology to estimate the magnetic susceptibility.
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