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Drone shots are cheap and easy. Process is expensive. That’s the real theme of our new site visit video report.
The video is a boots-on-the-ground site visit at Awalé Resources’ Odienné project in Côte d’Ivoire, and it’s a deliberate attempt to get past the content that dominates a lot of mining travel footage, which is often focused on the beautiful shots, emotions, and music. Yes, we have those, too. And yes, West Africa is beautiful, the food and the weather are great, and the music will make anyone move. And yes, everyone will tell you they’re the next big thing.
But I went there to see how exploration actually gets done, end-to-end. I wanted to see how the sausage is made.
I asked to see the exploration workflow from desktop targeting to field execution to drilling and then the less glamorous (but far more important) part: how the data is handled once it exists. Because how a team treats people, designs programs, collects data, stores it, and protects it will drive outcomes just as much as the geology does. That’s not poetry, it’s operations.
If you’re trying to guess an explorer’s odds, you want to see (and ask about) things like how targets are generated and ranked, how sampling is planned, how chain-of-custody is handled, what QA/QC looks like, how logs and assays flow into a database, and how decisions get made when results are messy.
A highlight of the trip was the termite sampling, which is one of those exploration techniques that sounds like a prank until you remember nature has been doing geochemical sampling for longer than your favorite consultant has been invoicing. In parts of West Africa, termite mounds can incorporate material sourced from depth and concentrate fines, making them useful as a low-cost, wide-area screening tool in covered terrain. I followed along with the ground crew to see how they collect the samples, how they transport them, how they analyse them, and how that helps them pick drill targets.
I’ll shut up now and let you play it.
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