Ground Geophysics

GPX Surveys provides ground geophysical services in data acquisition, processing and interpretation. Our main area of expertise is in electrical geophysical surveys for mineral exploration, groundwater exploration and environmental applications.

APPLICATIONS

Ground geophysical exploration techniques are used for a vast range of applications including:

• Mineral exploration and mining operations
• Hydrocarbon exploration
• Groundwater and environmental mapping
• Geothermal exploration
• Mapping of geological structure and lithology for a variety of civil engineering and mining applications

TECHNIQUES & EQUIPMENT

Available ground services include:

• Induced Polarisation (IP) & DC Resistivity
• Down-hole EM
• Ground electromagnetics (TEM)
• Ground radiometrics surveys
• Controlled Source Audio Magnetotellurics (CSAMT)
• Ground magnetic surveys
• Ground gravity surveys

GPX Surveys has the following equipment available:

• GDD Instruments GDD-32 IP Receiver
• Zonge receivers: GDP-16 and GDP-32
• Zonge TEM/3 sensor
• Zonge transmitters: hand portable 0.7kVA, semi portable 3kVA and 10kVA and a trailer mounted 30kVA unit
• EMIT SmarTEM receivers
• EMIT Atlantis three component fluxgate magnetometer probe (B-field)
• Geonics BH43-3D three component coil receiver probe (dB/dt)
• GPX-BA dB/dt receiver coil
• Iris ELREC receivers
• Scintrex IPR-12 receivers
• Picoenvirotec GRS-2 portable spectrometer