News & Events

Meet us in South Africa for SAGA 2017!

The 15th SAGA Biennial Conference & Exhibition takes place on September 10th – 13th 2017 at the Lord Charles Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa! With a distinctive focus on “Expanding Frontiers”, experts will be sharing novel methods and applications related to the field of geophysics. These experts are drawn from diverse locations across the globe including leading academic and research institutions, minerals and petroleum exploration minors and majors as well as government delegations. A comprehensive selection of geophysical service providers exhibit and present the newest commercially available technology.

Field Training Lithium Mine in Salar de Atacama, Chile

Mount Sopris Instruments geophysicist, Lia Martinez, recently spent  a week giving a training on how to use our acoustic televiewer tool for production lithium mining at the SQM Salar de Atacama lithium mine outside of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile in northern Chile. SQM uses a variety of Mount Sopris and ALT equipment on both sides of the border at mines in Chile and Argentina. Given the process of lithium mining as a brine, logging data is primarily collected and processed by Hydrogeologists in their Production and Exploration group.

New Rental Available – NMR Probe

Mount Sopris is excited to now offer a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance probe for rental. This tool is a modified version of a tool typically used for deeper oil and gas logging. The Mount Sopris NMR tool measures total porosity independent of lithology and can calculate continuous permeability and grain size distribution. With its 60 mm body and innovative technology, the NMR tool provides accurate subsurface measurements for a variety of slim borehole logging applications...

Global Uranium Symposium U2017

# Mount Sopris is excited to announce our participation in the U2017 Global Uranium Symposium being held in Casper, Wyoming from August 21-25th, 2017! Mount Sopris Instrument Company was founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1951 at a time when locating uranium for weapon and reactor use was of national interest. The company’s first product was […]

First International Sales Representatives Meeting

Whether across the street or across the ocean, Mount Sopris is committed to delivering the BEST products and customer service to our customers. To further this mission, Mount Sopris recently held its first-ever International Sales Representatives Meeting at its facility in Denver, Colorado. 35 Sales partners from 18 different countries traveled to our facility in […]

Ground water Logging in Myanmar

Mount Sopris Instruments’ geologist, Taylor Weber, recently spent a week in Myanmar giving a training to the Department of Rural Development (DRD) on logging and data processing for groundwater applications. Taylor also gave presentations to the Department of Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration (DGSE) for Myanmar and Geo Asia Industry & Mining Co. (a private […]

Mount Sopris Welcomes New Interns

Mount Sopris is proud to announce the hire of two summer interns to further improve our industry-leading customer and technical support! For the first time in company history, Mount Sopris is proud to welcome two geophysical engineering student interns to our sales and customer support team. Introducing Hannah and Ben, geophysical engineering students from the […]

Check out the recent issue of the Wireline Workshop!

The Wireline Workshop bimonthly bulletin contains valuable material that can be applied in many areas of mining and mineral exploration. The May issue touches on procedures for drilling and logging the right borehole, reviews total natural gamma ray measurements, and features an analysis of in situ stress measurements. Some of the key major points of […]

Featured Rental: Handheld Gamma Spectrometer

The RS-125 Super Spectrometer System is the state-of-the art hand-held radiation spectrometer available to rent today from Mount Sopris Instruments. This device can measure and store Total Count Data (in counts per second), Assay results, and GPS data. Use this device on your next continuous drill core assay or GPS oriented survey! This system boasts […]