TOUCHSTONES-GOLD® Collaborative Design

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="04dd4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Archean Systems</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>TOUCHSTONES-GOLD® Collaborative Design</B></div> <div> Welcome to the TOUCHSTONES-GOLD* design web site.</div> <div> Your interests in large-scale, Archean silicate systems; in predictive models for gold deposits are welcome.  Also welcome are related interests in</div> <div> -technical-scientific, quality control, QA/QC, "data verification" issues; risk, project feasibility, mineral economic and metal market analyses;</div> <div> -applied probability and statistics; geostatistics; applied spatial analysis and visualization</div> <div> -physicochemical geology, thermodynamics (equilibrium, nonequilibrium; reversible, irreversible; linear, nonlinear; classical / CIT, rational or extended /EIT; continuum); </div> <div> -mineral resource management and public policy issues.</div> <div> You might visit the mission statement for planned collaborative R & D on other deposits (copper, zinc, silver, VMS - associated;  copper, nickel, PGE platinum-group, massive sulphides, diamonds). Please send along your comments or your R & D interests.  Thank you for visiting!</div> <div> Please click the links to these pages for more information:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scientific Issues"><U><B>Scientific Issues</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research Mission"><U><B>Research Mission</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact "><U><B>Contact </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Your Participation"><U><B>Your Participation</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="World R D "><U><B>World R & D </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="World Strategy"><U><B>World Strategy</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gold Sector Economics"><U><B>Gold Sector Economics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2008: </B> Ontario gold project portfolio screening and generation (existing development work, exploration projects, prospects and under-recognized gold potential) </div> <bR> <div> <B>2007: </B> Fieldwork for control (standard, blank) sample extraction, site analysis; comprehensive whole-rock,  petrographic and petrofabric analyses; </div> <div> industrial nomenclature, classification,  logging and visualization systems adaptations (continuing)</div> <bR> <div> <B>2006: </B>Visualization and Geostatistical Analysis Algorithm Development-  Zone-Scale to System-Scale (continuing)</div> <bR> <div> <B>2005: </B>Design conformance, documentation and technical editing (continuing)</div> <bR> <div> <B>2004:  </B>TOUCHSTONES-GOLD<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT> improved design and predictive capability to 2% level of significance at 0.91 power of test (from 5% sig., 0.90 pwr.).  Together with high resolution of system characteristics and system distributions, the new design will close the gap between R & D and field applications.  Under-recognized mineral potential is indicated at 9% of the system population in a "mature" terrain.  This will mark the "discrete" design improvement over the state-of-art. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> *TOUCHSTONES-GOLD is a registered trademark (1995) of Julius Hava.  Professional geoscience services are provided exclusively by Julius Hava P.Geo. 2004 (Ontario S.O. 2000, c 13)</div> <bR> <div> Last revised: July 16, 2008</div> <bR> <div>    </div> </td> </tr></table></body>