Mineral Examinations, Appraisals, and Market Studies
GSA Resources provides geological consulting services to companies and
individuals. The professional staff is experienced in many aspects of the mineral
resources industry. The services include:
Examinations and appraisals of mineral deposits being considered for acquisition,
purchase, or condemnation.
Evaluations of contracts with mineral producers to determine whether the mineral
commodities can be supplied in the quantities and at the price agreed upon.
Marketing studies to determine the present and future supply-demand relationships as
well as potential markets for specific mineral commodities.
Mineral resource inventories to assess the value of mineral resources on lands being
considered for sale, development, or withdrawal.
Trespass actions to establish a value of mineral resources illegally removed from
private or public lands.
Setting royalties on mineral commodities being removed from private or public land.
Evaluating mineral properties for potential investors.
Promotion and sale of mineral properties.
GSA Resources professional geological services are cost effective. Consequently, the
money saved as a result of obtaining competent geological advice usually more than offsets
the consulting fee.
Industrial Minerals
The professional staff of GSA Resources are industrial
minerals specialists. They understand the complex interrelated factors which often
determine whether or not a deposit can be brought into production. Their investigations go
far beyond the customary geological examination. The reports prepared for the client
present clear and concise recommendations based upon accurate and comprehensive data.
An investigation of an industrial minerals deposit by GSA Resources
includes an evaluation of:
The deposit — its land status, location, and
geology.
The mining and processing— methods and costs. The products and
coproducts — their markets,
specifications, and prices.
The transportation — shipping
mode, system, and costs.
The potential health hazards — their
mitigation.
Consumers of industrial minerals often want to acquire deposits of the
minerals they use. GSA Resources can plan and operate both exploration programs and mining
operations. The professional staff capabilities include:
Planning and operating exploration programs —including sampling and drilling operations.
Blocking out and calculating ore reserves.
Computing stripping ratios.
Establishing analytical methods and procedures. Developing sampling, grade and moisture
controls, and blending procedures.
Supervising mining and processing operations.
Determining the most economical system and mode of transportation.
The professional staff has detailed experience with the following
industrial minerals:
Barite
Bentonite
Clays
Diatomite
Gem Stones
Gypsum
Kaolin
Kyanite
Limestone
Lithium
Manganese
Perlite
Phosphate
Potash
Sand and Gravel
Silica
Sodium Compounds
Talc
Vermiculite
Wollastonite
Zeolites
Between 1989 and 1997 GSA Resources completed several major consulting
projects. These include:
1989-90
Appraisal of Mineral Mining Company at Kershaw, South Carolina for
Piedmont Mining Company, Inc.
1990
Evaluation of the Mt. Gelai Hectorite Deposit Lake Natron, Tanzania
East Africa
1987-92
Exploration of the Grottos Bentonite Deposit Barstow, California
which included exploration by both drilling and underground workings.
1993
Evaluation of the available aggregate resources in the Tucson and
Phoenix Metropolitan areas for the Union Rock and Materials Division of the Kiewit Mining
Group Incorporated.
1995
Exploration drilling of the aggregate resources on the Knapp
Property, Tucson, Arizona for Tucson Rock and Sand.
1994-96
The discovery, evaluation and reserve estimate of the high calcium
limestone deposit at the Grasberg Mine, Tembagapura, Irian Jaya, Indonesia for P. T.
Freeport Indonesia. The company has started the quarry and completed the lime plant at a
budgeted cost of $32,000,000.
1995
Reclamation Plan for the Snow White Bentonite Mine, Ridgecrest,
California for Engelhard Corporation.
1995-96
Evaluation including as estimate of the quartzite reserves at the
Camp Grant Silica Deposit for Magma Copper Company at San Manuel, Arizona.
1996
Evaluation of the aggregate resources in the Santa Cruz River and
tributaries based on published information water well logs and site visits.
1996
Evaluation including a reserve estimate of the Valco aggregate
properties at Pueblo, Colorado for the Transit Mix Division of Continental Materials
Corporation.
1997
Reclamation Plan for the Western Talc Mine Tecopa, California.
PUBLICATIONS
1958
"The Potosi
Tungsten District, Madison County, Montana". Montana Bureau of Mines and
Geology, Inf. Cir. 21.
1972
"Stratigraphy Is A
Sometimes Overlooked Guide To Porphyry Coppers". Mining Engineering,
Vol. 24, No. 4.
1974
"Obtaining
Geological Information From Deep Mineral Exploration Targets Utilizing Oil Field Rotary
Drill Rigs". SME Trans., Vol. 255.
1974
"Exploration For
Deposits Of Natural Zeolite Minerals In The Western United States". SME
Preprint 74-11-336.
1975
"Exploration For
Deeply Buried Porphyry Copper Deposits In The Southwestern United States". SME
Trans., Vol. 258.
1975
"An Endeavor In
Community Public Relations,The Speakers Bureau Of The Tucson Subsection AIME". SME
Preprint 75-K-95.
1976
"Remote
Subdivisions And Their Possible Effect On Mineral Production in Arizona". SME
Preprint 76-H-84.
With
W. H. Dresher "Minerals Accessibility on Non- Federal Lands - Phase l,
Arizona Test Area" 77-10 The Office of Technology Assessment Congress of the
United States.
"Zeolites"
Encyclopedia of Material Science and Engineering, Pergamon Press.
1981
"Chemical and
Physical Properties of Natural Zeolites and Their Potential Industrial Applications",
Process Mineralogy, The Metallurgical Society of AIME.
1981
"Zeolite Deposits
in the Gila and San Simon Valleys of Arizona and New Mexico",Industrial Rocks
and Minerals of the Southwest, Circular 182,New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral
Resources.
With Jan C. Wilt, "Arizona
Industrial Minerals; A Growing Industry in Transition", Frontiers in Geology and
Ore Deposits of Arizona and the Southwest, Fieldtrip Guidebook #6 Industrial Mineral
Deposits of Arizona; Arizona Geological Society and University of Arizona Symposium
March 18-19, 1986
1984
With D.T. Eyde "The
Application of Geology to Problems of Geology and Grade Control Unique to Industrial
Minerals",Applied Mining Geology: Problems of Sampling and Grade Control;
Proceedings of Symposium at SME-AIME Fall Meeting October 24-26, l984, Denver, Colorado.
1984
With D. T. Eyde "Natural
Zeolites - What's the Score?" 6th Industrial Minerals Congress Toronto, Canada.
1985
"Geologist's
Opinion on Minerals, Malignancy,and Mankind", Applied Mineralogy, The
Metallurgical Society of AIME.
With D. T. Eyde, "Bentonite
and Specialty Sand Deposits in the Bidahochi Formation, Apache County Arizona"Proceedings
of the 21st Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals, Arizona Bureau of Geology and
Mineral Technology Special Paper 4.
1987
With R. A. Sheppard and C.
S. Venable Barclay, "Geology, Mineralogy, and Mining of the Bowie Zeolite Deposit
Graham and Cochise Counties, Arizona", Zeo Trip '87, International
Committee on Natural Zeolites.
1987
With D. T. Eyde, "Geology
and Mining of the Cheto Bentonite Deposit, Apache County, Arizona", Zeo Trip
'87, International Committee on Natural Zeolites.
Potential Growth for the
Industry in "Arizona Industrial Rock and Mineral Resources - Workshop
Proceedings" E. W. Tooker Compiler-Editor U.S.G.S. Bull. 1905.
1989
With J.C. Wilt, "Arizona
Industrial Minerals; A Growing Industry in Transition", Geologic Evolution of
Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest 17.
1989
With D.T. Eyde, "The
Hunter Mt. Wollastonite Deposit: An Immoveable Object Trapped By Irresponsible
Forces", California Desert Minerals Symposium, March 3-4, 1989, Irvine,
California.
1989
With D.T. Eyde, "Western
Clays - Looking for Mud in All the Wrong Places" - SME-AIME Annual Meeting, Feb.
27 - March 2, Las Vegas, Nevada.
With D.T. Eyde, "Present
and Past Producers of White Calcium Carbonate and The Pantano Clay Deposits", in Industrial
Minerals Field Trip Guide Arizona Geological Society.
"Using Zeolites in
the Recovery of Heavy Metals From Mining Effluents", EPD Congress, The Minerals,
Metals and Materials Society of AIME.
1993
"The Impact of the
Regulation of Airborne Mineral Particulates on the Industrial Mineral Producers in the
U.S.", ICAM '93 Mineralogy in the Service of Mankind, Fremantle, Western
Australia, May 31 - June 2.
1993
"The Regulation of
Crystalline Silica, or the King Canute Syndrome", Clay Minerals Society 30th
Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, September 25 - 30.
With D. T. Eyde, "Zeolites"
Annual Review. Mining Engineering, Vol. 46, No. 7.
1995
"The Mount Gelai
Hectorite Deposit, Arusha District, Tanzania, East Africa", The New Mexico
Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bull. 154.
1995
"Asbestos Risk
Assessment - Fact or Fiction", Commission on the Arizona Environment Perspectives
on Environmental Risk Assessment, Arizona State University West, March 7.
"Mineral Dusts:
Their Characterization and Toxicology Symposium", September 19-20, 1996,
Washington, DC., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
