Resource Geosciences

is an independent provider of integrated geoscience and exploration services to mining and exploration companies, government agencies, and land use planners. Resource Geosciences staff includes "Qualified Persons" according to CSA NI43-101 and RGM is a provider of independent NI 43-101F1 Technical Reports.

Resource Geosciences is based in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, however we provide services to clients throughout the Americas who require collection, compilation, or interpretation of geologic data, or professional administration and management of exploration programs.

Resource Geoscience's founders and directors comprise a bilingual English-Spanish, multi-cultural team with over 50 years of international experience. Resource Geosciences provides field based technical services, and also functions as a professional practice offering professional administration and project management services on an outsourced basis to client companies. By contracting field based technical services to us, clients are able to utilize expertise that may not be available in-house, or implement exploration and geologic programs without incurring the significant costs of maintaining staff on payroll. Clients pay for the services of geoscience professionals only on an as needed basis, and avoid the costs associated with hiring, maintaining, and reducing staffs. By contracting professional administration services to us clients are able to maintain a legal corporate entity in Mexico without the costs of opening and maintaining a dedicated Mexico based office. Our professional administration services are particularly useful for foreign-based companies that wish to form or maintain a Mexican subsidiary at minimal cost.

We are exclusively a provider of technical and administrative services. Resource Geosciences does not acquire interests in mining projects for its own account nor promote projects for clients.

What's New?

• In March 2010, RGM founding partner Matthew Gray chaired a technical session at the SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Phoenix, Arizona.  The session was titled "New Discoveries and Revitalized Mines in Mexico" and featured presentations on the Cerro Jumil gold project of Esperanza Silver (William Bond), the El Chanate gold mine of Capital Gold (Scott Hazlitt), the Mulatos gold mine of Alamos Gold (Ken Balleweg), the Pinos Alto gold mine of Agnico Eagle (Gustavo Noriega), the Topia silver mine of Great Panther Silver (Robert Brown), and the Noche Buena Au-Ag project of Goldcorp (Gassaway Brown).
• In August and September 2009, RGM geologists Luis Anchondo, Roman Solis, and Ivan Valencia attended the Lowell Program in Economic Geology Short Course on Ore Deposit Mapping and Great Basin Ore Deposits. 10 days were spent visiting and mapping ore deposits in the Tonapah, Goldfield, Eureka, Humbolt, Robinson, and Birch Creek districts of Nevada and California, where porphyry, skarn, IOCG, and epithermal mineralizing systems were studied in the field.  Thanks to the RGM clients (you know who you are!) who allowed flexible project work schedules and enabled the geologists to attend.
  
  
  L to R: Ivan Valencia, RGM; Eric Seedorf and Mark Barton, University of Arizona; Roman Solis and Luis Anchondo, RGM.

• In December 2008 RGM Senior Geologists Matt Gray, Mario Castellanos, and Rodolfo Sauceda attended the Lowell Program in Economic Geology Short Course on Porphyry, IOCG, and Alkalic Au and Cu Deposits, presented at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  10 days were spent in lecture, lab, and field studies of ore systems.  

    

• In May 2008 RGM had the honor and pleasure of attending the re-dedication ceremony for the Guanajuato mine operations of Great Panther Resources.  Great Panther purchased the historic producer (over 400 years of production history) and successfully converted the mine to a modern and profitable operation.  Congratulations to Great Panther for thier achievment.

   
Claudio Santiago (RGM), Robert Brown (VP Exploration, GPR), Roman and Dora Solis (RGM), Carmen and MattGray (RGM), Robert Archer (CEO and President, GPR), and Francisco Ramos Sanchez (VP Business Development, GPR) at the Guanajuato mine re-dedication ceremony hosted by Great Panther Resources (GPR).

 

• In May 2008 RGM President Matthew Gray presented "Design and Administration of Exploration Drilling Programs in Compliance with CSA NI43-101" at the first annual  International Exploration Drilling Conference held in Hermosillo, Sonora.

• In January 2008 RGM completed 4 days of in-house training.  Themes covered included: Red Cross basic first aid training; project health and safety practives; andQA/QC protocols.  In addition, professors and researchers from the Uiversity of Sonora and the National Geologic Insitute presented technical talks on porphyry copper systems, skarns, and the magmatic and tectonic evolution of northern Mexico. RGM thanks its clients for allowing the flexibility in project scheduling needed to accomadate the training sessions.                            RedCross first aid instruction
  

• In August 2007 the Sonora State Comission for Potable Water (COAPAES) initiated well construcion at  sites recommended by RGM and Barrance Group LLC.  One production well has been completed.  Pump testing of this well yielded positve results.

• In May 2007 RGM and Barranca Group LLC, working under the patronage of Cobre del Mayo SA de CV, (Frontera Copper Corporation), as part of Cobre del Mayo's community services program,  successfully concluded a groundwater exploration program for the community of Alamos, Sonora (10,000 inhabitants).
  

             Water exploration drilling

• In April 2007 Resource Geosciences de Mexico attended the inauguration of Frontera Copper Corporation's PiedrasVerdes copper mine in Sonora, Mexico.  Piedras Verdes is a SX-EW operation and will be Mexico's third largest copper producer.  Resource Geosciences has provided mine development, administrative, and technical services to FCC since 2002.

             Inauguration ceremony, Piedras Verdes

            Piedras Verdes mine, Alamos, Sonora