OTTAWA, April 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Complete MT Solutions Inc. of Ottawa is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Magnetotelluric (MT) acquisition contract for the Metal Earth project, led by the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) of Laurentian University. Metal Earth’s objective is to improve the understanding of mineral (gold, zinc, nickel) deposits within Archean greenstone belts in Canada. CMTS will acquire broadband MT (BBMT) data along twelve profiles in the Wabigoon subprovince (western Ontario) and in the Abitibi subprovince (eastern Ontario/western Quebec). Stations are approximately 10 km, and in addition high resolution audio-MT (AMT) data will be acquired along designated profile sections. Acquisition starts in May and will take four months.
Metal Earth is a CAD $104 million applied R&D program led by MERC of Laurentian University. This initiative is a strategic consortium of outstanding Canadian researchers from academia and allied Canadian and international research centres, government, and industry. Metal Earth is intended to transform our understanding of the genesis of base and precious metal deposits and make Canada a world leader in metal endowment research and a world-class innovator.
Complete MT Solutions is a geophysical consultancy specializing in MT Data Acquisition, Processing, Analysis and Interpretation. The company is led by Dr. Alan Jones, a renowned authority on MT with more than 200 papers on the topic. CMTS excels through proprietary processing, analysis and interpretation techniques – developed by a team of the world’s most experienced and knowledgeable practitioners. It provides consulting services on all aspects of MT, including Survey Design and QA/QC, and adds value to legacy MT and legacy network MT (e.g. Titan24) data through modern methods.
As Dr. Jones noted, the importance of this participation for the Metal Earth project is that, “For the first time, Metal Earth will acquire deep geophysical data to map the interior of deep forming ore processes. For Complete MT Solutions, this gives us an opportunity to showcase the world’s leading methods of MT acquisition and interpretation. There is much to be learned in the Abitibi and Wabigoon that will be of direct benefit to industry.”
MERC and CMTS welcome expressions of interest from companies exploring or operating close to the Metal Earth profiles to take advantage of a very experienced MT crew to perform MT on their own exploration properties and the opportunity to leverage additional research funds through a Collaborative Research and Development Grant application to NSERC. To see which of the 12 transects in the program will be covered under the Metal Earth Program, request a KML file from alan.jones@complete-mt-solutions.com.
For enquiries about CMTS, please visit our webpage: www.complete-mt-solutions.com.
For further information on Metal Earth, please contact Ross Sherlock, Director of Metal Earth: rsherlock@laurentian.ca.
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