Exploration Drilling 照片檔

A diamond drilling rig extracting rock core from an exploration target area for gold in an island of Papua New Guinea. To get the rig to the remote jungle site a bulldozer track is blazed and a flat working area is created for the drilling activities. Incessant seasonal rains turn the working pad area into a muddy quagmire. The significant price-rise of gold in the 1980s led to a boom of mineral exploration searching for gold deposits. A major gold deposit was discovered nearby on Lihir Island at this time which lead to a frenzy of exploration activity for gold throughout Papua New Guinea.