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Last month, I spent a couple of weeks conducting a radiometric soil survey on the edge of the Athabaska Basin in northern Saskatchewan. What a change from the Sahara! Yet, a few things were familiar including a [...]
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We’re back from the far reaches of the Tim Mersoi Basin in norther Niger. As usual, getting there was the worst part of the trip. Its a long drive from Niamey to In Gall over narrow poorly paved roads followed by a long dusty drive north from [...]
We have entertainment out in the bush that is far superior to cable TV or even Hollywood’s best action films. Vivid dreams are served up each night by our favorite malaria prophylaxis, Malarone. Just pop one before bed and you are in for an exciting nocturnal adventure full of narrow escapes from the [...]
Semmous Lion Mining (SLM) of Niamey Niger has signed an exclusive consulting contract with Stratamodel Inc. Stratamodel’s president Thomas Bell PhD PG will serve as chief consulting geologist on SLM’s fourteen uranium exploration permits in Niger. Stratamodel is still free to offer consulting and exploration services to the rest of the exploration [...]
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We’re on our way home at last. This survey for Niger Uranium SA took sixteen days to cover three thousand stations where we collected a gamma spectrum, a radon measurement and a soil sample at 1,500 individual grid points. Data must now be processed and interpreted to identify areas of high soil radon [...]
As we leave the Northeast US, the weather is gloomy, most of the fall color has faded and we look forward to the best weather of the year in Niger. We’re flying on Royal Air Maroc with a long stop in Casablanca. After several weeks of preparation for this survey, it is a [...]
It’s time to return to the Sahara. The rainy season is over, the temperature is cooling, and the days are bright and sunny. Perfect conditions for a radiometric survey. Our first survey will be conducted for Niger Uranium of South Africa. Two of my technicians, Miles and Scott will accomapny me.
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If only it were so easy as clicking the heels of our ruby slippers. The trip home was certainly quicker by a day because our client chartered a plane to get us back down to Niamey. After a day there, we got out in the middle of the night and had an uneventful trip back [...]
On a high lonely rock in the Sahara
We’re short timers now. Homeland has chartered an aircraft to take us back to Niamey on Sunday so we can avoid the arduous two day drive. All 1800 radon detectors have been retrieved from the field and the films are safely packed in bags for their journey to the [...]
