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“In West Africa, there are few labs and long
distances along poor roads from projects.
The wet seasons mean exploration windows
can be short but with labour plentiful,
employees can be rapidly trained to use
detectORE™ eliminating the need to truck
samples, reducing the turnaround time.”

“This will fill a gap in the market and
will transform the way gold explorers
go about their business, particularly in
remote locations.

“It is a similar situation in the Guiana Shield of South America.
That is one of the last great gold exploration frontiers with
many world-class gold deposits, but it has been underexplored
because of access issues. Transporting samples by air, boat or
ATV is slow and expensive but detectORE™ allows for real-time
adaptive gold sampling on-the-fly from a jungle field camp which
would be a game changer.”
The technology has been extensively tested on different sample
media, mineralisation types, regolith styles and with different
“Kirkland Lake Gold [Inc] and Gold Road Resources [Ltd] were portable XRF products. Bolster says it has stood up to all testing.
the first two sponsors to sign up and we have since welcomed
21 other gold companies, including the likes of Barrick Gold Corp, “We have worked with five different manufacturers and different
Newcrest Mining Ltd and Gold Fields Ltd. instruments and it performs consistently well,” he says. “We have
been cross checking detectORE™ values with traditional lab as-
“They are supplying a lot of samples. We have completed tests says and Chrysos Photon assays continually and found there is no
and experiments on more than 25,000 samples with more than upper detection limit. It can identify 20 ppb or 120 g/t gold.”
10 tonnes of drill samples coming in from Australia, West Africa,
South America and North America. With commercial launch looming, Portable PPB is gearing up to
handle expected demand.
“It has taken three years of hard work but we are now there. We
started with a product which had a few issues and could be diffi- “We started with a small team but we are now up to 11 employ-
cult to use. We wanted a product which was simple, safe, robust, ees and still growing. We have 2,000 sqm block with a 900 sqm
reliable and easy to use. Something which was ‘fieldy proof’ and in the Perth suburb of Canning Vale and we are now scaling up to
could eliminate human error.” produce 10,000 of the collector devices a day,” Bolster says. “We
have experienced COO and CCO appointed and will have the
Having spent extensive time working in exploration in West Africa software ready in the next few weeks.”
and South America, Bolster recognises the enormous benefits
detectORE™ could bring to teams in remote locations. After more than three years of building the detectORE™ story,
Bolster is excited by the prospect of seeing it operate in the field.
“In West Africa and South America, there are few labs and long
distances along poor roads from projects. The wet seasons “It is the equivalent of three phases of exploration in one day and
mean exploration windows can be short but with labour plentiful, compresses the assay timeline, which is something every explora-
employees can be rapidly trained to use detectORE™ eliminating tion team is looking to do. That leads to really robust targeting
the need to truck samples, reducing the turnaround time. and hopefully it will help increase the rate of discovery.”

For more information about the detectORE™
system and technology, visit Portable PPB at
portableppb.com or email info@portableppb.com