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GEOLOGICAL EXPERTISE

FEPCAT
FEPCAT (Features, Events and Processes Evaluation Catalogue for Argillaceous Media) project. Completed on the base of the contract (Order no. P300V-4- 05/00.) concluded between the PURAM and MECSEK ORE ENVIRONMENT

Contribution, evaluation and data supply regarding the investigation of Boda Claystone Formation in the 2nd phase of the FEPCAT Project of the Clayclub.

Summarize and evaluate the previous knowledge and develop a common nomenclature. The newly developed database makes it possible to organize these knowledge.spectrometric measurements etc.)

2000
Public Limited Company for Radioactive Waste Management (PURAM)
$ 7.850.000
Geological Site investigation for the final disposal of the low and intermediate level radioactive waste from nuclear power plant
2001-2005
Bátatom researchdevelopment and service Ltd. (Bátatom Ltd.)
$ 4.319.505
  • Overground geological exploration.

  • Planning.

  • Infrastructure building for the underground mining research of the low and intermediatte level radioctive waste storage of Üveghuta.

Services:

  • Access road construction and maintance for the research facilities

  • Design and licensing of a open cast rock disposal site

  • Utilization of the excavated rock (rock crusher and classifier) /technical design/

  • Site-specific database clarification

  • Safety assessment

  • In-situ and laboratory radiological investigations (gamma dose, soil radon exhalation, radon concentration in soil, soil gas, specific activity, gamma spectrometry, environmental assessments for environmental impact studies)

PURAM
The appointment of the testing laboratory for the possibility of placement and the suitable geological storage for the high-level and long-lived radioactive waste, as well as the spent fuel assemblies in Hungary in the permian siltstone occurance in the western Mecsek area. (Order no. P300B-4-01/03)
2003-2010
Public Limited Company for Radioactive Waste Management (PURAM)
$ 21.004.930
  • Overground geological preparatory research

Services:

  • Summarize and evaluate the previous knowledge and develop a common nomenclature. The newly developed database makes it possible to organize these knowledge.spectrometric measurements etc.)

Laboratoy
Geological research of the Boda Claystone Formation (BAF). Construction of the 2. phase of the 1. phase of the surface exploration. (Order no. P300B-2- 03/13)
2013-2016
Public Limited Company for Radioactive Waste Management (PURAM)
$ 1.667.510
  • Continuing the research of the undergroung site of RAW

Services:

  • Well boring, in situ complex well logging, packer hydrologic test, hydro-fracturing test and evaluation, water sampling, drilling technical supervision

  • Geological and geotechnical documentation of drilling cores; sampling; mineralogical, petrographical, geotechnical, geophysical and geochemical examinations

  • Water geochemical investigations; - Geological and geomorphological mapping

  • Geological and geophysical major structural interpretation, map editind

  • Trenching (design, preparation, documentation, sampling)

  • Multi electrode geoelectric, electromagnetic (TEM) measurements and geophysical sounding (CPTu), evaluation

BAF geological research
Re-evaluation of the mineral resource of the Recsk Deep ore occurrence according to JORC
2012-2013
Mecsek-Öko Ltd.
$ 85.330
  • Using international raw material valuation standard definitions and specifications (CRISCO Template 2013, JORC2012, NI 43-101, NAEN Code 2011, PERC Reporting Code 2008)

  • Comparsion of the older Hungarian and international standards

  • Basic data (geometric data, sample data, sample preparation data, material testing data, geological data)

  • Data preparation and verification (coordinates, borehole inclination, 3D regularities of metal distribution, ore type sections, ore type list with highlight limits, evaluation of uncertainty)

  • Results of the mineral resource evaluation (block and block group level; categories by knowledge intensity; depending on highlight limits; by area; recommended data for the National Register of Mineral Resources /comparsion with Recsk II/)

Services:

  • International raw material valuation standards

  • Comparsion of the older Hungarian and the new international standards

  • Characterization of the used basic data

  • Data preparation and verification

  • Data processing (with Surpac)

  • Recommended data for the National Register of Mineral Resources; - comparsion the new results with the previous data; - characterization of the uncertainty of the results

  • Evaluation report

JORC
Geological map processing and updating of the Recsk Lahóca
2013-2014
NaturAqua Ltd.
$ 27.000
  • Summary of the new data

  • Digitalization of the old maps

  • Creating an unified digital base

  • Creating an unified geological succession and legend

  • Interpretation and reinterpretation of old maps

Services:

  • Summary of the statigraphic knowledge of Recsk Lahóca based on the latest scientific research.

  • Creating an unified legend.

  • Digital processing and update of the overground geological maps (from 1964, 1997, 2008) based on the newest statigraphic knowledge.

  • Digital processing and update of the underground (Catherine tunnel, George tunnel mid-level, George tunnel upper level) geological maps and cross sections based on the latest statigraphic knowledge.

  • Creating an updated overground and underground geological map based on the old documentations and the new statigraphical and oregeological knowledge over and above the new research results from 2013.

Recsk-Lahóca
Geological Site investigation for the final disposal of the low and intermediate level radioactive waste from nuclear power plant
2001-2005
Bátatom researchdevelopment and service Ltd. (Bátatom Ltd.)
$ 4.319.505
  • Overground geological exploration.

  • Planning.

  • Infrastructure building for the underground mining research of the low and intermediatte level radioctive waste storage of Üveghuta.

Services:

  • Preparation of geological exploration and technical operation plans - Underground geological research, tunneling design - Design of underground infrastructures, licensing, building (electricity network, water supply, firewater network, filling station) - Preparation of outline plans of the underground storage with the knowledge of overground research results (technical design)

  • Selecting the optimal construction methods with the knowledge of the overground research resoults: tunnel safety technology, loosening zone sealing technology (technical design) - Creating regional geological and tectonical studies, neotectonical investigations

  • Ventillation equipment installation, operational and environmental characteristics

  • Overground well-boring (with an without drilling core): (research wellboring, pre-drilling for tunnels, rock stress drilling, water wells) drilling, , drilling technical supervision, complex well logging (ABI, BHTV), packer hydrologic tests, rock mechanical measurements (fracturing, doorstopper cell rock stress in situ measurements), water sampling, heatpulse flow measurements /HPF/, PSQ, PQ, radar); - Geological, tectonical, geotechnical documentation of drilling cores, core scanner, mineralogical and petrographical, petrophysical, geotechtonical laboratory investigations ; -Chemical, isotope and dating investigatons of water samples from bore holes and overground watercourse ;- Geophysical measurements between bore holes, overground geophysical measurements and evaluation (e.g.: velocity and absorption seismic tomography, multielectrode geoelectric probing, engineering geophysical probing, vertical resistance logging, transient electromagnetic soundings)

  • Development and measurement of geodetic measuring points, geodetic survey with relief photogrammetry; - Installation and operation of surface monitoring systems (water flow measuring station, weather station, watercourse monitoring, multipacker bore holes, water quality investigation, geodetic monitoring, seismological monitoring, radiometrical monitoring); - Geological mapping, trenching (building and geological-tectonical documentation)

  • Geotechnical numerical modeling

  • Laboratory definition of hydrodynamical and technological parameters

  • Database development and management, GIS developments

Radioactive waste
PAKS II. project Contract number: 3000005304 (Geological Site Investigation Program for the two new NPP blocks – Hungary; based on IAEA standards)
2015-2016
MVM Paks II. Nuclear Power Plant Development Private Limited Company
$ 28.531.728
  • Geological exploration with well-boring (geological, geophysical, geotechnical and hydrogeological investigations and GIS database management) for the acquisition of a new nuclear power plant unit site permit (according to the final authorization granted by the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority).

Services:

  • Well-boring, trenching, geological and geotechnical documentation, drilling core management.

  • Geological and geomorphological mapping, geophysical, geotechnical and hydrogeological ivestigations; seismic research; - Monitoring system installation and operation (hydrogeological and microseismic).

  • Laboratory ivestigations (geological, rock mechanical, geotechnical, water quality).

  • Evaluation reports, specialty studies and reports

  • 3D geological, geophysical, geodynamic and hydrogeological modeling.

  • Determination of tectonic and earthquake hazard of the site; - Creating an IT aided interprataion background.

PAKS II.
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