G.P. Thomas

Gary graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class honours degree in Geochemistry and a Masters in Earth Sciences. After working in the Australian mining industry, Gary decided to hang up his geology boots and turn his hand to writing.

When he isn't developing topical and informative content, Gary can usually be found playing his beloved guitar, or watching Aston Villa FC snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Articles from G.P.

Black Iron Releases Further Infill Drill Hole Results from Shymanivske Project

Black Iron has announced further assay results from its definition and exploration (DE) diamond drilling campaign conducted at the Shymanivske iron ore project situated in Ukraine.

27 Jul 2012

Khalkos Exploration Completes First Prospecting Program at Nanuq Property

Khalkos Exploration has announced that a preliminary prospecting campaign was completed at its new Nanuq copper-gold-silver property, which is situated 40 km towards the southern part of Salluit in Quebec.

27 Jul 2012

North American Nickel Discovers Fifty Conductive Zones at Maniitsoq Project

North American Nickel (NAN) has announced that it has discovered fifty conductivity zones, many of which have extensive strike lengths, in preliminary data obtained from the VTEM plus helicopter time domain electromagnetic survey carried out over the company’s Maniitsoq project, Southwest Greenland.

26 Jul 2012

Standard Graphite Commences Exploration Work at Mousseau East Property

Standard Graphite has informed that it has begun exploration work at its flagship Mousseau East property. This summer work campaign of 2012 has an objective to qualify the historic resource to be NI 43-101 compliant and to explore for prospective expansions.

26 Jul 2012

Slater Mining Begins Exploration at West Khazret Gold Project

Slater Mining has declared that it has started an exploration program at the newly optioned West Khazret gold project located in Kazakhstan. Preliminary work will include a grid geochemical soil sampling campaign having orientation lines over the prominent mineralization that stretches for 1,400 m at the Atygai gold system situated in the Sineshikhan fault, whose length and width are 16 km and 3 km respectively.

26 Jul 2012

Greenland: Mining, Minerals, and Fuel Resources

This article discusses the mining, minerals, and fuel resources of Greenland.

25 Jul 2012

Robex Resources Receives Encouraging Gold Results from Nampala Mine

Robex Resources has announced that positive results have been obtained from the present drill program carried out at the south expansion of the Nampala location, on the Mininko permit. It has encountered 3.32 g/t gold over 10 m and 3.32 g/t over 45 m.

25 Jul 2012

Ultra Lithium Begins Audio-Magnetotelluric Survey on Balkan Properties

Ultra Lithium has reported that a detailed audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) survey has been started by geophysical crews at the 643 km2 land area located in the Republic of Serbia. Data will be specifically utilized to discover prospective boron and lithium horizons and analyze basin geometry.

25 Jul 2012

Americas Petrogas Sets New Oil Production Record of 2830 bopd in Argentina

Americas Petrogas has declared the new daily production heights of 2830 bopd or 450 m3 per day was achieved at Medanito Sur and Rinconada Norte on July 19, 2012. Subsequent to obtaining the 25-year licence for drilling in Medanito Sur, Americas Petrogas escalated its drilling efforts.

24 Jul 2012

Beach Energy Drills Bauer-5 Well in PEL-91

Beach Energy announced that it has extended the Bauer oil field by drilling Bauer-5 in PEL-91 (Beach 40% and operator, Drillsearch 60%). Bauer-5 intercepted the main Namur target over 1 m high to prognosis at a high-grade cache/reservoir.

24 Jul 2012