About Photonic Knowledge

Photonic Knowledge services the mining and petroleum industries from early exploration through to production.  With the innovation of the Core Mapper, Photonic has made it possible to economically analyze drill core with unprecedented speed and precision.  Realize your core values!

About Northern Gold Mining: Northern Gold Mining Inc. is a TSX-V listed, publicly traded junior resource company based in Toronto, Ontario, dedicated to the discovery and development of high value mineral deposits in the proven mining camps of Kirkland Lake and Timmins in North Eastern Ontario. Northern Gold is focused on developing two advanced stage gold deposits on the Garrison Gold Property. In addition to the advanced stage Jonpol and Garrcon Gold Deposits, both of which have NI 43-101 compliant resource estimates completed and posted to SEDAR (October 21, 2009, October 23, 2010 and August 8, 2011), the property hosts several other gold mineralized showings including the less advanced 903 gold mineralized area.  A Preliminary Economic Assessment is included in the Technical Report posted to SEDAR August 8, 2011.  The Garrison Gold Property has historical mining infrastructure at both the Jonpol and Garrcon Deposits, and currently producing mines are located near the property. On May 13, 2011, the Company completed its purchase of 100% ownership of the Garrison Gold Property from ValGold Resources Inc.

“The Core MAPPER™ created by Photonic Knowledge represents the most significant improvement to logging and processing drill core that I have seen in the last 40 years” stated Mr. Gross, a geologist and mine operator with over 40 career years’ experience and a Master’s degree in Economic Geology.  He went on to say that, “This revolutionary new process is now an integral part of Northern’s drilling and exploration work on our Garrison Property and I’m impressed with the level and quality of service provided by Photonic Knowledge.”

Photonic Knowledge has made it possible to economically analyze drill core with unprecedented speed and precision. According to Eric Roberge, President and CEO of Photonic Knowledge, “The major advantage of this technology is its ability to provide a picture to geologists with a field of view that is 1600x larger from the conventional handheld spectrometer and  900x more precise.”  He concluded by stating, “The Core MAPPER™ is capable of mapping and analyzing up to 2000 meters of core per day and we look forward to working to this volume with Northern Gold Mining Inc.”

Northern Gold Mining Inc. has retained Photonic Knowledge to supply and operate its new Core MAPPER™ hyperspectral technology, to enhance the determination of mineral and metal content in drill core samples from Northern Gold’s Garrison Gold Property, 90 km east of Timmins, ON. This hyperspectral imaging technology represents a significant advance in logging and processing drill core when assessing gold mineralization on the property. Output integrates with geological modeling, enabling 2D or 3D visualization. NGM is currently utilizing Core Mapper™ one to two days per week to map and determine mineralogical content of 1500-2000 meters of core.  

With core mapping completed on nearly 50,000 meters of drill core to date at the Garrison Gold Property,  Northern Gold plans to continue using this revolutionary new technology developed by Photonic Knowledge,   Near term, NGM plans to use the Core MAPPER™ to analyze approximately 100,000 meters of drill core drilled by previous operators on the Property with the expectation that several hundred thousand meters of past, current and future core drilling and possibly including reverse circulation drill cuttings will be mapped using this technology.



In a joint announcement, Northern Gold’s Vice President of Exploration, Mr. Michael P. Gross, and Photonic Knowledge’s President and CEO, Mr. Eric Roberge said, “this new technology will bring added value to NGM’s drilling programs in terms of greater productivity and reduced costs when assessing gold mineralization on the property.

By analysing absorbed and reflected light, Photonic Knowledge is able to determine the nature of the mineral and metal content in drill core samples. The Core MAPPER™ equipment, analyses all minerals present at the surface of the core in one step.  It captures the hyperspectral signature of minerals down to a resolution of 2 nanometers (2 billionths of a metre).  The data output can be tuned for individual minerals or for groups of minerals in a specific alteration type and display colours graphically or pictorially or a combination of both and readily integrates with geological modelling software, enabling 2D or 3D visualization.