Exploration Radio

Next week's episode on Exploration Radio...will be on the Rover Boys, a crack team of petroleum geologists who explored the far corners of the world with the job of finding surface petroleum deposits. They smoked camel dung and used whiskey as a lion repellent. This was a team built for adventure. But the way their story ends can teach us a lot about the future of mineral exploration.

Is Wanderlust just a Jennifer Aniston movie? Or is it something more? Wanderlust is an insatiable thirst for travel, culture, new people...or just the new in general. It has driven many an explorer to search out places where others have not been to or where others will not go. This week we talk to Dan Olberg...an exploration geologist that epitomises the drive it takes to be an explorer.

It is 1987. As a university student, you show up for your first day of work and are told "you have to leave, you cannot stay here". Why? "Because you are a girl and girls don't work in mines". Does this seem a little far fetched? Well this is how Alex Atkins started her career in mining.

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The year is 1987. As a university student, you have been accepted for vacational work by a company called WMC. You show up for your first day at work and you are told that "you have to leave, you cannot stay here". Why? "Because you are a girl and girls don't work in mines". Does this seem a little far fetched? Well this is how Alex Atkins started her career in mining. Want to know more, check out the next episode of Exploration Radio, where we talk to Alex Atkins about why she is a rebel with a cause. 

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Alan Moore, a young Australian geologist, heads to a remote, inhospitable part of SW Pakistan to explore for copper. Along the way, he teams up with Saad Husain, a local Pakistani, that becomes his ever present project manager. This is their story and how their work led to the discovery of the Reko Diq deposit. But...it is not your typical discovery story. It is much more than that.

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How to do Frontier Exploration...where we talk to Alan Moore and Saad Husain, two individuals involved in the discovery of Reko Diq, a copper-gold deposit in southwest Pakistan. Unlike a normal discovery story, we wanted to cover it from a slightly different angle.

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What does it take to be a successful explorer? Is it technical knowledge?...the right strategy?...having a lot of money?...or just luck? What if the most important ingredient for success...was culture. This episode is part 2 of our interview with Mark Bennett, a successful mineral explorer who has evolved his own views and his own successful culture.

What does it take to be a successful explorer? Is it technical knowledge?...the right strategy?...having a lot of money?...or just luck? What if the most important ingredient for success...was culture. This episode we look at the building of an explorer culture.. a discovery culture...with Mark Bennett, a successful mineral explorer who has evolved his own views and his own successful culture.

Welcome to Exploration Radio.

Here is a preview of our upcoming episode...where we ask Mark Bennett, What Makes a Successful Explorer? 

Welcome to Exploration Radio...a podcast focusing on the past, present and future of mineral exploration. Featuring interviews and discussions with explorers about the challenges they have faced, what we stand to learn from them and how we can better prepare for the future. Ultimately these are stories about exploration...the people, places and issues prevalent in mineral exploration.