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The DFID-funded Extractive Sector Support Programme (ESSP) in Afghanistan has been awarded a final grade of ‘A’ throughout the Programme’s lifetime.

IGS recently attended the latest UK-Kazakh Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) meeting, including the Mining Sub-group meeting, in London for an update on the Kazkh Mining Code and for meetings with partners.

IGS is part of an international consortium engaging in a pilot project in Uganda to make geodata more readily available to government and industry with the aim of facilitating economic growth and alleviating poverty – the African Resource Geoscience Initiative (ARGI).

IGS is pleased to announced the arrival of our new Senior Geophysicist, Dr. Feargal Murphy …

IGS, in association with SRK Exploration, presented at a seminar on de-risking exploration on 24th November …

Mineral exploration holds inherent risk both geological and political. How can we manage and mitigate this risk in modern exploration? …

IGS has been awarded 2nd place in the prestigious Frank Arnott Award in a ceremony at the Exploration 2017 conference in Toronto.

Resource development relies on geoscience data (‘geodata’). In Africa, access to useful geodata is often slow, expensive and unreliable. This discourages potential investors and leads to a slow rate of development.

IGS attended the Government of India (Ministry of Mines) sponsored Mining, Exploration, Convention & Trade Show in Bangalore (Mining MAZMA, 2017), 14^th – 16^th September 2017 held in the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre. IGS is part of a joint-venture India- registered company known as IDPeX Pvt. Ltd. comprising Datacode, an Indian-registered geodata management consultancy, and software reseller and PGW, (Paterson, Grant & Watson Limited), a geophysical consultancy based in Toronto, along with IGS. IDPeX was well represented at the show having a prominent centre stage stand and also presented 3 papers entitled ‘Attracting Exploration Investment – The Pathway to Success’ by Peter Zawada (MD of IGS),  ‘Understanding Airborne Geophysical Data (Acquisition, Processing, Interpretation and Application)‘ by Bill McCourt (Technical Director of IGS) and Stephen Reford (President of PGW) and ‘Promoting your Geodata to the World – Applications, Products and Services’ by S. Karunakar Rao (CEO of Datacode).

India’s exploration and mining sector is at a nascent stage of development and although contributing just 1.36% (2016/17) to the GDP of the country (net of oil and gas earnings), of which 0.7% is ascribed to coal and lignite, it is undergoing rapid transformation to expand its contribution to the nation. Reform of its Mining Code and Policy has seen important changes and further amendments are anticipated. The State Governments are expected to play an important role in attracting exploration investment. IGS is planning to expand its geodata, capacity building and mineral promotion services on the sub-continent both at a National and State level through the joint venture company of IDPeX.

IGS has recently completed the latest of a series of prospectivity maps, this time for Cu porphyry potential in the Malanjkhand area of India. These maps, produced by Xplore – our semantic technology-based mineral prospectivity software – highlight the most prospective areas for particular mineral deposit model types.

Almost 50 different mineral deposit models can be rapidly analysed using existing baseline datasets and well-established, peer reviewed mineral deposit model characteristics. The prospectivity maps produced are of great help in aiding the identification of prospective areas for governments, as well as exploration companies seeking to enter new markets, or to delineate more detailed areas of interest.