en.Wedoany.com Reported - Hu Bingqian, a senior engineer from the No. 6 Geological Brigade of Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, led his team to complete the first phase of geological exploration at a gold mine in Zimbabwe, with the expected gold deposit scale reaching medium size. In March 2025, Hu Bingqian led the team to the mining area to advance the geological project. The originally scheduled five-month field period was compressed to two months, and the team also needed to complete the exploration report within three months.
Facing difficulties such as language barriers, harsh environments, and lack of data, Hu Bingqian and his team members completed surface reconnaissance and geological data review in the shortest possible time, formulating an exploration plan. Under local high temperatures, harassment from mosquitoes, venomous snakes, and heavy rain, the team members conducted core logging in an open-air core shed. Due to incomplete early basic geological data in the mining area, missing original records, vague sampling point markings, and disorganized core identification signs, the team members had to patiently and repeatedly verify each core box and accurately record every sample.
After more than a month of hard work, the project team completed regional geological mapping at a scale of 1:10,000, covering an area of 1.5 square kilometers, over 4,000 meters of drilling geological logging, collected more than 2,300 samples of various types, drew 18 comprehensive maps, and delineated 16 ore (mineralized) bodies. This is one of the cases where the Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources promotes the "going global" of geological exploration technical services.
In the past five years, the No. 248 Brigade of Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources has carried out multiple geological drilling projects in countries such as the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Angola, Ghana, and Liberia, completing a total drilling footage of over 130,000 meters in Africa, helping to identify multiple large and medium-sized deposits locally. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources implemented over 80 geological projects in 28 countries across Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia, forming technical advantages in basic geological surveys, mineral resource exploration, and geological technical services.
Team members from the No. 1 Geological Brigade of Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources are participating in the China-Saudi Arabia Geoscience Cooperation Project undertaken by the China Geological Survey—the "Saudi Arabian Shield Detailed Mapping Project." Since 2025, the brigade has dispatched over 20 technical personnel, completing field geological mapping tasks for four 1:100,000 scale sheets, covering an area of over 12,000 square kilometers, systematically collecting more than 3,000 geological observation points, and submitting nearly 30,000 pieces of various geological data. This project is the world's largest geological mapping technical service project since the 21st century.
The 7th Qingdao Summit of Multinational Corporations will be held from June 15 to 17, 2025, in Qingdao, Shandong. Among them, the sub-forum "Gathering Mining Industry·Shandong Enterprises Going Global" International Cooperation Symposium on Mineral Resources will be held concurrently, with over 150 representatives from home and abroad already registered to attend. The symposium aims to build a high-end dialogue platform for global resource-based multinational corporations and related institutions, leveraging the achievements of the Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in geological exploration and mining cooperation to promote a new paradigm of international cooperation that deeply integrates "resources, technology, capital, and markets."
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