Every geologist has experienced extreme isolation at some point. That crystalline moment when they realized that if anything happened to them right then and there, they may as well be on Mars.

We'd learned some tough lessons in Phase 1, and this time around we were going to be smarter.

In 1996 the author was sent to Iran to supervise a drill program at a gold project called Zarshuran. It didn't go well.

Like it or not, our industry often bets the house on one person's interpretation of what may (or may not) lie beneath our feet.

A small team heads to the southwest to explore for sediment-hosted gold close to the borders with Greece and Macedonia.