Brine Mining
Hydrogeology plays a critical role in determining the economic viability and development strategy of solution mining operations. To evaluate the producibility of underground brine prospects, it is critical to determine the volume of the brine resource available inside the source aquifer as well as the ability of that fluid to flow out of the rock.
Surtech Systems can help solution miners by designing and deploying a logging program that delivers direct hydrogeology answers to define the brine resource.
BMR instruments can acquire the main hydrogeological measurements required to characterise the resource; it measures the Total Porosity of the aquifer (resource volume) and can be used to determine the Specific Yield, the fraction of the fluids that can be recovered, and the Hydraulic Conductivity and Transmissivity of the system.
To complement BMR, additional resistivity measurements can be added to the program to quantify the salinity of the brine and better understand the composition of the solution.
