Ghana - Iron (Field exploration services and resource definition drilling)

Vancouver-based Cardero Resources engaged Aurum to provide project management and oversight on their Late Proterozoic Shiene Hills iron ore project in eastern Ghana. This was a grass-roots exploration project in a poorly explored area of Ghana. A variety of activities were undertaken, which included: • Interpretation and ground verification of remote sensing and airborne geophysics data Archive search including historical Russian exploration data Planning and setting up a remote work camp for 30 employees Designing and implementing a resource definition programme Managing multiple drilling rigs (3 diamond coring and one RC) • Completion of 9,500 m of core and 2,000 m of RC drilling, QA/QC oversight, and logging of chip samples Oriented core logging, core magnetic susceptibility and handheld XRF • Geological mapping and trench sampling • Construction of geological modelling based on cross-section interpretation • Constructing a 3-D wireframe used in an NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate • Training local staff in a variety of exploration techniques.