We can provide and coordinate services that include property sourcing and staking through sophisticated exploration and drilling, right through to advanced exploration and initial mine planning. We partner with established experts in the mining sector to provide a one-stop shop to meet your needs from conception to pre-feasibility and feasibility.
Our regional offices provide complete services anywhere in the world and our team’s extensive experience in the mineral exploration industry with both private and public exploration and mining companies. Caracle Creek provides teams of professional geologists, geophysicists and engineers to the mineral exploration and development industry, with international experience in all disciplines.
Quality control is provided by an internal technical review system. Senior technical review is facilitated by the project manager and by a Caracle Creek geologist who is not on the project.
Our team provides you with all the tools necessary to plan, implement and manage a professional and successful mineral exploration program.
Caracle Creek’s combined strengths of practical experience and varied international exposure to projects, terrains, and cultures, result in projects that are technically strong, focused and cost-efficient at every stage.
We recommend every project begins with a thorough data review, followed by a robust GIS interpretation (data compilation and interpretation) in order to be cost-efficient and add value to your exploration and mining projects.
For more information see 3D Modelling and Targeting and our list of GeoServices.
Our exploration programs are designed to fit your needs. Cutting-edge mineral exploration methods allow for recommendations for any size of geological, geophysics and geochemical programs built around a wide variety of mineral types and targets.
We recommend exploration programs worldwide on the basis of two principal exploration models:
We can perform baseline country or camp-scale geoscientific data reviews, compilations and analysis to help you select your exploration targets.
Consolidating project data increases your chances of discovery and improves project efficiency. An early investment in data centralization vastly improves the exploration process and allows for building upon previous information and success in addition to developing new exploration targets.
3D GIS Exploration provides a means to utilize all available parameters to derive 3D integrated targets. This is a means to vector and target at depth and translates to efficient, cost-effective and most importantly thorough exploration practices related to any exploration program.
It can also couple geology and mineral deposit models with the use of geophysical techniques for sampling, and understanding the physical characteristics of the rocks and how they relate to the geology and lithologies of any given area before subsurface imaging.
Best practices for the use and understanding of geophysical techniques are employed to understand the relationship of the images of the subsurface to the exploration problem.
Caracle Creek is a global expert at quantifying and verifying your mineral resources.
We have worked on a variety of deposit types and commodities including, precious metals (gold-silver, PGE), base metals (Cu-Pb-Zn), magmatic sulphides (Ni-Cu-Co-PGE), LCT pegmatites (lithium), and rare earth elements and industrial minerals (coal, graphite, iron, phosphate, potash).
Caracle Creek is involved in all stages of exploration that lead to mineral resource estimation and beyond:
Caracle Creek has extensive experience completing Mineral Resource estimations on the basis of both current and historic data. We are experts in bringing non-compliant resource estimations to the compliant stage by planning, managing and executing drilling programs to verify historic information.
Our team uses the latest mineral resource estimation techniques and software and utilizes a variety of software platforms including Micromine, Geovia Gems, Whittle, Surpac, Datamine Studio, and Leapfrog 3D geological modelling software.
Caracle Creek’s team has specialized expertise in lithium and rare-element exploration and in particular, LCT Pegmatites:
Granitic rare-element pegmatites (i.e. LCT, NYF) host potentially economic commodities such as lithium (spodumene and petalite), tantalum (Ta-oxide minerals), niobium, tin (cassiterite), rubidium (lepidolite and K-feldspar), cesium (pollucite), and ceramic grade feldspar and quartz.
Unlike most economic deposits (i.e., gold, copper, nickel, platinum, lead and zinc) exploration techniques for lithium deposits are not as well understood by most geologists. The identification of common pegmatite minerals such as cleavelandite, aplite, spodumene, petalite, and beryl is essential to the process. At Caracle Creek, we utilise our knowledge of the pegmatite deposit model of fractionation of pegmatite dykes from the parental granite outward and inward fractionation within individual pegmatite bodies.
Lithium is used as a major component in lithium-ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles. The current lithium rush by the exploration industry is due to the rise in the price of lithium related to the global increased interest in greener vehicles (i.e., electric and hybrid cars). Because of its lightweight and high power capacity, lithium batteries are preferred for electronic devices such as computers, cameras and cell phones. Lithium metal and compounds have a variety of uses: lightweight aerospace alloys, ceramics and glass, lubricants, pharmaceuticals and other industrial and military applications. Tantalum’s major application in the electronics industry is in the manufacture of capacitors found in cell phones, video cameras and laptop computers. Tantalum is also used as an alloy in the manufacture of turbine blades for power stations and jet engines.
Caracle Creek has experienced experts in this speciality with the skills to plan, implement and manage your rare-element pegmatite exploration program anywhere in the world.
CCIC Coal has years of extensive experience in the coal industry and as a specialist in the sub-Saharan coal industry, is well-situated to provide its clients with the expertise to implement and manage coal exploration and development projects. Since its inception, CCIC Coal has worked for numerous coal exploration and mining companies and has been instrumental in various listings on a number of international stock exchanges.
CCIC Coal works closely with various specialists involved in the coal exploration and evaluation value add chain, including environmental companies, drillers, surveyors, process engineers, mining engineers, mining contractors and accredited laboratories.
CCIC Coal’s professionals use Geosoft Target, which updates daily drilling programmes, plan maps, cross-sections, graphic borehole logs, grids and contours. SABLE and GBIS database software is utilised to store and validate borehole and project data. Geological modelling and resource estimations are made using Datamine and Minex. The team’s strong technical ability will manage your project from exploration through to extraction.
CCIC Coal is an authority on coal exploration in the sub-Saharan region, having been part of numerous teams that have taken projects successfully from exploration to profitable extraction.
Mine Development services allow our exploration clients to take their projects to the next phase of operations. Caracle Creek has the skills to partner effectively with larger mining engineering and environmental consultants and to help coordinate mining services on behalf of our clients.
Caracle Creek’s suite of mine development and mining services includes:
