Aberdeen Minerals

Had an excellent first year at Aberdeen Minerals coinciding with the completion of our latest drilling project, which has seen the company expand significantly by taking on new staff, placement students, and additional exploration equipment. During this drilling campaign, I’ve really enjoyed gaining practical experience in borehole electromagnetic surveys, instructing placement students, and using PXRF geochemistry to aid in logging and categorising our core. I’m looking forward to the next exploration campaign! Thanks to Fraser Gardiner and Cecelia Bradley for giving me the opportunity and training me up over the past year. #Geology #Mining #ExplorationGeology #MiningIndustry #DrillingProject #GEOSOC #Fieldwork #Experience

We were delighted at the end of September to welcome Olivia Frankland onto the Aberdeen Minerals team! Olivia is a geologist who graduated earlier this year from University of St Andrews. We met Olivia when we gave a talk hosted by our friends UStA Women in Mining - Student Chapter and at a follow-up core logging workshop that we ran at our site in Ellon. Now, she is working on a mineral exploration drilling project in sunny Aberdeenshire! ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ If you are a geoscience student interested in mineral exploration and mining, we would encourage you to get involved in opportunities to meet companies and industry geologists - you just never know where these may lead. #nickel #copper #cobalt #mineralexploration #aberdeenshire #criticalminerals

We are so excited to have Eimear Deady joining us on October 28th to discuss the complexities surrounding the Global REE Supply Chain! We can't wait to kick off this year's speaker series and we hope you can join us...

I just finished an excellent 7 weeks of work experience with Aberdeen Minerals on their Summer exploration drilling campaign. Over this time I got to see firsthand all the stages of such a campaign, get to grips with the fundamentals of core logging and be at the forefront of the inclusion of their new handheld XRF analyser. My primary tasks on this placement included the photography, cutting and sampling of core, geotechnical work, noise monitoring and taking magnetic susceptibility and XRF geochemistry measurements. Additionally, I logged core sulphide mineralisation, decided core assay sample intervals and performed inspections of drill sites and the core shed. I was also trained as a radiation protection supervisor by Lucion, how to safely use an XRF gun by Evident Scientific and learnt how the core logging of both alteration and lithology is done. Huge thanks to Fraser Gardiner for allowing me to join the company for the Summer, as well as Cecelia Bradley, Jack Bacon and Grant Bellshaw for training me so well and also to my fellow student geologists. You were all so welcoming and I really enjoyed being part of the team. Good luck as well to Olivia Frankland as you start your role with the company, it was great to meet you and help in your training, even if it was brief. I wish you all the best with future exploration and will be watching closely to see where it all goes.

It was a pleasure to host members of Aberdeen Geological Society on a site visit at the weekend. Thanks to all who attended for taking the time to visit and showing such interest in our work! #nickel #copper #cobalt #mineralexploration #aberdeenshire #criticalminerals

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Throughout this summer I’ve had the opportunity to work on two fantastic projects. Resulting in me looking confused on top of a mountain, and looking confused in a core shed. All while gaining incredibly valuable experience! Beginning the summer, I had the opportunity to volunteer for Innes Scott Campbell (of the Heriot Watt GeoEnergy research group) as he gathered geophysical data across the Cairngorms for his PhD. During this project I helped set up magnetometers, electrodes, and MT units, helping me to gain a stronger understanding of the magic of magnetotellurics! Combining my love of being in the hills, the great company of everyone involved, and some really interesting geophysics, lead to a fantastic experience in which I learnt a lot. From early July until the end of August I worked as a student geologist at Aberdeen Minerals, with the fantastic team and the fascinating geology of sulphide deposits, I loved every moment of my internship. By the end of which I had experienced core logging, geotechnical measurements, gathering magnetic susceptibility/ conductivity data, core cutting, and pXRF RPS training. I also learnt a lot about the process of mineral exploration from aligning drill rigs, to the process of gathering data from core, and subsequent modelling with borehole EM and other geophysical techniques. I’m lucky to have been a part of both of these projects, and I can’t wait to build upon what I’ve learnt and to broaden my horizons further! #exploration #geophysics #geology

Great to be on site this week with Aberdeen Minerals on their Ni-Cu-Co exploration project in NE Scotland, with the rigs turning, and some nice looking magmatic sulfides to study with the team! Looking forward to getting stuck in to the Masters project that Zindzi Alex-Eyitene will be doing here University of Leicester on some of these exciting rocks. Fraser Gardiner Cecelia Bradley #nickel #copper #cobalt #exploration #research

Many thanks to Brett Duncan, Todd Houlahan and David Phin of Evident Scientific for visiting us in Ellon for a day's training with the latest #Vanta portable XRF #pXRF analyser. We all appreciated your time, and clear explanations about how the latest analyser technology can be used effectively in #mineralexploration to provide instant #geochemistry data from our samples. Cecelia Bradley Jack Bacon Grant Bellshaw Zindzi Alex-Eyitene Michael Wilkinson Stuart Munro Fergus Slater #nickel #copper #cobalt #criticalminerals #aberdeenshire #geoscience #technology