News

IGS will be attending Mining Indaba in Cape Town from 5-8th February as part of the UK pavilion, number 1316.

IGS is pleased to announce the signing of an airborne geophysical supervision contract with the Ministry of Mining in Kenya.

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.