The mining industry in Namibia represents the country’s leading economic sector and contributes over 10% of GDP, making Namibia one of the top four non-fuel mineral exporters in Africa. Namibia produces diamonds, uranium, copper, magnesium, zinc, silver, gold, lead, semi-precious stones and industrial minerals.
The Oamites Copper Project seeks to mine and beneficiate copper on site with the view of exporting high grade concentrate. The project first phase drilling program comprised 2,000 meters of rotary core drilling. The objective of the Otis Trading Enterprises survey was to measure the deviation of boreholes.
The equipment used to measure the borehole deviation consisted of a Verticality probe, a 500m Winch and a Micrologger2 surface acquisition unit. The probe includes a triaxial magnetometer to determine the bearing of a reference in the probe relative to magnetic North and three accelerometers to measure inclination. The outputs from the transducers were processed by a downhole microprocessor to give final borehole inclination and azimuth data in real time.
The logging was completed without any significant challenges.
