Probably the best job on Earth. It requires a good amount and balance of determination, faith and consistency. While the long hours of prospecting can feel gruelling sometimes, exploration is a teamwork endeavour, and you need that professional glue and to care for each other. As my mentors recently pointed out: you need to care for your team life if they were your children.
Canadian wildlife
Canadian wildlife
Prospecting, back from a day prospecting around the Eleonore Mine. This was during my time at Azimut Exploration.
Esker, view from helicopter
Always nice to hammer a rusty block, gets you motivated
Laurent Cormier, a prospector and fisherman from Le Havre-St Pierre. He surely knows how to make a barbecue. Autmn, 2017.
Beep Mat, cant say this is the prospectors favourite tool but it did work a few times while I was prospecting.
Boulders near the Eastmain Mine. A drillhole around the same area showed exactly the same types of lithologies and textures. A tonalitic magmatic breccia, mapped as a synvolcanic intrusion because of its relatively close geochronological age, crosscutting the mafic volcanics of the Upper Eastmain Greenstone Belt.
The Eleonore South camp, built by Azimut’s contractors. View from helicopter. Winter 2018
The Eleonore South camp, built by Azimut’s contractors. View from helicopter. Winter 2018
The Eleonore South camp, built by Azimut’s contractors. View from helicopter. Winter 2018
digging to prepare the drill rig pad, before machine is heliported
Check collar information, azimuth and depth
Geophysical line cuts, for a Fixed-loop time domain survey. Soil geochemistry geostatistic showed a metallic potential in this area. Subsequent drilling revealed semi-massive sulphides in core. Eastmain Mine area, Winter 2021.
TN14, rig aligner. Drillers and technicians arguing on its best position. The software on our Samsung tablet settled the debate.
Gold panning, Martin Tuschcherer.
Gabbro goggles, Sophie Séguin
Patwon – Azimut Exploration gold project, October 2018.
Bear trap
Silva compass rules: make sure you get the magnetic declination right, then always make sure the red north pin lines up underneath with the red arrow.