We are now 30 cm away from the halfway point for GT1! Sad to see Benoit leave and a shame we didn't quite make it to 200m for him today, but we will continue with Gretchen and Michelle, who arrive tomorrow!
It was great to welcome our fisrt trainees on the Oman Drilling Project today. Nidhal and Maisa, both students at GUTech in Muscat, discovered with us the joys of core curation. It was another busy day, with 30 more meters cored.
Our drill crew worked until 11:30 this morning, before taking a well diserved rest. 9 more meters cored. Then Jude and Benoit drove to GT3 with Mr Gobi to review access to the next site.
We are now drilling through lovely fresh gabbros that are so hard we have had to change to a different drill bit! We also said goodbye to Sam and Nico returned.
We now reached 377m depth, with core recovery beeing about 100%. Alteration and multiple sets of veins, covering a temperature range from amphibole to prehnite facies are still major features overprinting the foliated gabbro. (Credits: The OmanDP Team).
Today was OmanDP Chief Scientist Peter Kelemen's first day on the drill site! We were also visited by our good friend, Local Project Manager Zaher Al Suleimani. The hole advanced another 21m to bring us to 332.4 m depth. Credit: Jude Coggon
Today core-count passed beyond 100. With this exciting event we are at the depth interval of 263m to 266m. We are happy that drilling still continues, looking forward to hit the goal of 400m. Greetings from the OmanDP on site team.
Successful handover from Damon over the past few days. Tomorrow the new team continues and is expecting to make it past 250 m depth with the first core of the day.
At the third day of NQ coring the core and workflow sattled and is runnign smooth now. Coring rate is at about three meters per hour kepping the science and curation team buissy. (Credits: Samuel Mueller)
