The Importance of Geophysics and Remote Sensing in Anglo Platinum’s Exploration Effort

Summary

Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary PGE producer conducts world-wide Greenfields and Brownfields exploration. In support of conventional methods, Anglo Platinum supplements the mapping and drilling with geophysical and remote sensing datasets. These datasets are subsequently integrated with all other available datasets and are captured in 3D software. This results in a most comprehensive structural ore body model which is subsequently available for an improved mine planning.

Datasets acquired comprise Landsat TM and ETM, Aster, Quickbird and Ikonos for remote sensing, geophysical and geotechnical wireline logging, airborne magnetics, radiometrics, gravity gradiometry, Spectrem’s EM and most importantly 3D Seismics, including VSPs.

Key words::

• Anglo Platinum
• Remote-Sensing
• Geophysics
• 3D Seismics
• Data Integration.