Mineral project generation · Perth, Western Australia
Whistlepipe Exploration generates mineral projects for the mining industry. A principal geologist and a principal geophysicist work every dataset together, from regional screening to ranked drill targets, so the ground we bring forward has been tested against both.
How we work
Project generation is a narrowing process. Each stage cuts the search area by orders of magnitude, and every cut is made with geology and geophysics side by side.
We compile open-file geology, geophysics, geochemistry and drilling, then screen belts against mineral-systems criteria to find prospective ground that has been under-explored or misread.
Geologist and geophysicist build one interpretation. Magnetics, gravity, radiometrics and EM are read against mapped lithology, structure and regolith until both datasets tell the same story.
We apply for tenure over the best of it and keep it in good standing, with expenditure and reporting planned from the start.
Field validation, targeted surveys and ranked drill targets turn a concept into a project that is ready to vend, farm out or joint venture.
Bar length: typical search area at each stage, log scale
Capabilities
In many exploration teams, data passes from one department to the next. At Whistlepipe the geologist and the geophysicist work on the same interpretation from day one. Companies can engage that combined team for their own projects.
Morgan Fréjabise
Together
Where the two disciplines meet is where projects are made.
Jacob Paggi
Principals
Whistlepipe is owned and run by its two principals. There are no layers between you and the people doing the interpretation.
Principal – Geology
BSc (Hons) · MSc · MAIG
Morgan has explored in Western Australia since 2008, with CSA Global, IGO, Chalice Mining and Gold Road Resources. He was part of the discovery teams at Bibra (gold) and Rosie (nickel) with IGO, and at Julimar–Gonneville (nickel–copper–PGE) with Chalice, recognised with the 2022 AMEC Prospector Award and the 2023 PDAC Thayer Lindsley Award. MSc Geoscience, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. Works in English and French.
Principal – Geophysics
BSc (Hons) · MASEG
Jacob is a geophysicist and Curtin University graduate. He leads Whistlepipe's geophysical work: designing and supervising surveys, processing and imaging the data, and building the geophysical side of every interpretation. Member of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
“A discoverer is someone who sees what everyone else sees, but thinks what no one else has thought before.”
Sir Harold Raggatt, after Arthur Schopenhauer (1851)
Contact
Whether you hold ground that needs a fresh look, need geology and geophysics for an exploration programme, or are looking for your next project, write to us at info@wpex.com.au or contact either principal directly.