Sir Anthony is currently a marine consultant, a Director of International Diamond Drilling in West Africa ( since 1999 ) and also conducts survey and inspection assignments in oil, gas and shipping services in Lagos, Nigeria ( since 2000 ).
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Students from the School of Earth Sciences carried out an active gold exploration programme using surface and underground diamond drilling techniques, geochemical soil sampling and geophysics . Geological exploration was carried out by students using both surface and underground drilling methods.
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The Ministry sent in a team of Canadian Engineers with diamond drilling equipment, and this confirmed that the Skiddaw Group of rocks lay at about below the main entrance to the mine ( The Lucy Level ), not at as the geologists had predicted.
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Exploration work in 1937 1938 resulted in the creation of a three level } } mine shaft . In February 1992, Deak Resources completed diamond drilling and bulk sampling at the mine and 3, 000 tons of rock was shipped to its Kerr Mill in Virginiatown.
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That same year, exploration began north of the Mount Isa ore bodies, in an area that later became the Hilton mine and, following the discovery of an outcrop of rocks similar to the host rocks of the Mount Isa ore bodies, diamond drilling began in August 1948.
