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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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