Who we are:

Exploration Direction is a provider of geological and management services to the mineral exploration industry with a focus on early-stage exploration for base-metals and gold.

We assist clients to develop and progress exploration projects ensuring that procedures and data are suitable for eventual use under national reporting rules including NI43-101, JORC and PERC.

Services:

  • QP/CP services for mineral exploration

  • Exploration programme design and management

  • Target generation studies

  • Property reviews / geological due diligence

  • Data audits and data management

  • GIS compilations (QGIS)

  • NI43-101 reporting for exploration results

  • 3D visualisation and modelling (Leapfrog)

  • Geochemical survey design, QAQC, and interpretation

  • Drill project management

  • Workflow optimisation and documentation

  • Fieldwork risk assessments, H&S reviews, and accident investigation

Projects:

Exploration Direction has provided:

  • Exploration and QP services for Medgold Resources in Serbia covering generative projects and discovery drilling leading to a initial resource estimate of 0.68M oz AuEq.

  • On-site geological leadership of resource drilling for Major Precious Metals at the Skaergaard precious metals project in Greenland ensuring effective drilling, core logging, and sampling for use in a resource update conducted by SLR Consulting (11.4 M oz PdEq indicated, 14.1 M oz PdEq inferred).

  • On-site management of exploration drill programs in east Greenland for Longland Resources seeking conduit-hosted Ni-Co, orogenic Au, and VMS.

  • Exploration management and QP services for Munduro Capital in Serbia covering JV partnerships with BHP and Vale. Included contract management of multiple large geophysical surveys and developing safety improvement initiatives.

  • Exploration management and QP services for Electrum Discovery Corp for projects in Serbia providing technical, operational, and H&S guidance during the company’s membership of the 2025 BHP Xplore programme plus geological handover during Electrum’s merger with Minrex Resources.

  • Technical consultation to an operating company evaluating the near-mine potential for an asset in the West Tethyan belt, providing a ranked opportunity list after data analysis and interpretation of ~15 years of geological, geochemical, spectral and geophysical datasets.

  • Services to clients active in Chad (mapping), Mongolia (geochemical survey review), and Türkiye (VMS and porphyry exploration).

Personnel:

Thomas Sant FGS CGeol EurGeol FSEG2005

Having gained a BSc in Applied Geology from the University of Leicester in the mid 90s, Tom banged rocks around the world including eight years with Rio Tinto followed by six years in Mongolia with Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines during the period of the Oyu Tolgoi discovery. A diversion to seafloor exploration with Nautilus Minerals, working on the geology and resource drilling of the Solwara 1 seafloor massive sulphide deposit, provided a near real-time view of the formation of a gold-rich VMS. Returning to dry land, Tom joined Eldorado Gold as their generative exploration lead in Türkiye followed by several years as Eldorado’s exploration manager for Greece.

Returning to the UK in 2016 Tom established Exploration Direction Limited to provide generative and discovery focused exploration services.

Tom is a fellow (FGS)of the Geological Society of London, a UK chartered geologist (CGeol), a registered European geologist (EurGeol), a fellow (FSEG2005) of the Society of Economic Geologists, a member of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, a core PDAC member, and a member of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.

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