Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Universite Grenoble Alpes, PACIFIC is a research project in the field of mineral exploration. The project aims at developing new exploration techniques that respect the environment and incur relatively low...

At the invitation of Dr. Andrew Schaeffer (Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada), Dr. François Lavoué (UGA) presented the PACIFIC work on the use of seismic signals generated by trains for passive seismic imaging and monitoring on May 5th, 2021. The...

The H2020 PACIFIC and the INFACT projects will co-convene a scientific session at the virtual EGU21 on Thursday 29th April 2021, 15:30-17:00 CEST. This virtual PICO session (ERE5.4) will be dedicated to Mineral exploration for the XXI Century and will feature...

On April 15, 2021 (~14h30 CET), Dr. Charles D. Beard, Postdoctoral Researcher, Sisprobe SAS and Universite Grenoble Alpes, will deliver a presentation on ambient noise surface wave tomography and its applications for mineral exploration at the Core Log Seismic...

View the presentation delivered on 2nd February 2021 by Dr. Charles D. Beard, Postdoctoral Researcher, Sisprobe SAS and Universite Grenoble Alpes, at the Toronto Geological Discussion Group.  

The following PACIFIC scientific publications were mentioned in Physics today and Popular Science. Pinzon‐Rincon; F. Lavoué; A. Mordret; P. Boué; F.Brenguier; P.Dales; Y. Ben‐Zion; F. Vernon; C. J. Bean; D. Hollis. Humming Trains in Seismology: An Opportune Source for...

On Tuesday 2nd February (4:00 PM EST / 10:00 PM CET), Charlie Beard, a postdoc at Sisprobe and the Université Grenoble Alpes will be presenting an overview of PACIFIC research at the Marathon and Kallak case studies. The seminar host is the Toronto Geological...

Sisprobe is extremely proud and honoured to have won the Eramet-EIT Monitoring Challenge. We look forward to interacting with Eramet to realise the exciting projects we developed with the valuable assistance of our Eramet mentors, Denis Richard and Marie-France...

Click here to download the press release (Pdf format) announcing the online event co-organised by INFACT, PACIFIC and the NHM on December 3-4, 2020! Can mining make the world a greener place? Press release I December 2020 Do you know where our metals come from? How...

Nick Arndt (Sisprobe) successfully delivered a talk on "Passive Seismic Methods for Mineral Exploration and Tailings Dam Monitoring" at the SIT4ME workshop on 10-11 November 2020. The workshop was aimed to showcase and discuss a broad view of the new approaches in the...

Two PACIFIC project partners, Sisprobe and Université Grenoble Alpes, in collaboration with the team of Richard Gloaguen of the INFACT project, started an experiment to test whether noise from drilling could be used as a seismic noise source. The work will be done at...

The key goal of the PACIFIC project is to develop mineral exploration methodologies that are kinder to our planet. However, the success of exploration today depends not only on the technology, but also on how mining activities are explained to our communities and how...

This is the question asked by the Horizon 2020 research projects PACIFIC and INFACT which co-organise an event with the Natural History Museum of London on 3 and 4 December. The virtual event is thought as a discussion platform where personalities with diverse...

In the PACIFIC project, Sisprobe did a passive seismic survey of the Marathon PGE-Cu deposit, Ontario, Canada. Seismic velocity models help to define the geometry of the gabbroic intrusions that host the mineralisation and represent an economical and environmentally...

This is the question asked by the Horizon 2020 research projects PACIFIC and INFACT which co-organise an event hosted by the Natural History Museum of London on 3 and 4 December. The virtual event is thought as a discussion platform where personalities with diverse...

The Mineral Exploration Symposium took place on the 17th of September 2020. This virtual event, organized by The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of the EC brought...

Check out the World Business Report podcast entitled "Turkey announces record gas find" to hear what Prof. Nick Arndt has to say about metal miles and the importance of exploration and mining in Europe in the context of the energy transition!

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is celebrating its 90th year with a revolutionary change in the format of the SEG Annual Meeting: this year its long history of innovation and industry leadership moves into new territory with the first ever all-virtual...

Members of the PACIFIC consortium will give video presentations of their work at the Marathon site the Mineral Exploration Symposium. This virtual event, organized by The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), brings together the key innovators of...

Although train-induced vibrations are mainly regarded as a source of unwanted noise for classical seismological applications, these vibrations act as powerful sources for modern seismic methods that use ambient noise for seismic imaging and monitoring. As part of...

A winter school on sustainable mineral exploration, organized by two H2020 projects, PACIFIC and INFACT, took place on the beautiful campus of the International University of Andalusia in Huelva, Spain on 9-12 March 2020. The main goal was to describe the techniques...

PACIFIC partners, Aoife Braiden (GSI) and Nick Arndt (Sisprobe) are co-chairing a European Geosciences Union Great Debate this Friday at 2pm on mineral resources, sustainability and the circular economy. Speakers will include: - Karen Hanghøj: Director of British...

Between 1-4 March, PACIFIC participated in the 2020 meeting of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) that was held in Toronto, Canada. A partner of PACIFIC assisted at the large and very impressive EU booth and Nicholas Arndt (Sisprobe) gave a...

Check out PACIFIC video to learn more about the project objectives, partners and test sites in Canada and Sweden!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUl9Wh86gQ

Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Grenoble and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PACIFIC and INFACT are studying the social acceptance of mining-related activities while developing mineral exploration technologies that...

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During the project, the PACIFIC consortium will assess the risks for the environment of technologies and models developed and tested. The results will be presented in regular reports, which will be communicated to the public at large. The first report is now...

Post-Doc position open in PACIFIC: Check the offer below!   "Multi-array passive seismic imaging technique" https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/423032Université Grenoble Alpes is one of the world's leading universities specializing in Earth science (ranked 3rd in...

The first PACIFIC workshop was held at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay (Ontario, Canada) on 12-13 June 2019, followed by a one-day excursion to the Marathon exploration site on 14 June. The general theme was the ambient noise (or passive) seismic method, as applied...

Since the begining of the project in June 2018, the PACIFIC team has attended and has presented the project at the following international conferences:   24th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Porto, Portugal - 9-13 September 2018...

Every year, the PACIFIC partners meet for the General Assembly of the project. After almost one year since project start, PACIFIC partners met at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), one of the project partners. This General Assembly meeting was the...

On 28 and 29 March 2019, at the Las Cruces mine* north of Seville in Andalusia, a seismic network of 132 geophones covering an area of about 1 x 2 km was installed for one month to register ambient seismic noise. This configuration will be used to see through and map...

PACIFIC supports the "Passive Imaging & Monitoring in Wave Physics: From Seismology to Ultrasound" workshop that will take place on September 16-20, 2019 in Cargèse (Corsica, France). This event (in its fifth edition) attracts young scientists for instructive...

The Stillwater Canada Inc. team has completed the field acquisition of seismic data at the Marathon site in Canada. Out of the 1024 sensors that were successfully deployed, 1019 were retrieved. The five missing have been buried under rocks or moved by animals!...