Research for Mineral Water extraction locations

In a nutshell…
Water bearing sites for high yield natural mineral water extraction are fed by one (or sometimes multiple) water artery produced by a hydrothermal reservoir. The leakage point (exurgence) of this aquifer is the optimal collecting location of mineral water extraction. and the emergence (the entry) of one or more water arteries in this sheet constitutes an essential characteristic of it. An angiogeoscopy makes it possible to detect the hydrogeological signatures of a mineral-water sheet. Only a exploratory drilling will make it possible to determine if this aquifer is well preserved of any surface contamination.

The mineral-water survey aims at precisely locating water bearing sites likely to produce a natural mineral water durably presenting stable properties.

From a hydrogeological point of view, a mineral-water sheet - i.e. a producing natural mineral water aquifer - is different from a geothermal reservoir or a hydrothermal reservoir (which are identical between them from a hydrogeological point of view). The latter are located at great depth. Only their efferent flow (of exit) is detectable by angiogeoscopy, but not their related flow (of entry), located out of reach our current capacities of detection. A mineral-water sheet is located at lower depth. Its related flow is quite detectable by angiogeoscopy and comes partly from a hydrothermal reservoir. Its efferent flow is also detectable by angiogeoscopy.

A mineral-water sheet is fed in a stable and durable way by:

  • an underground water flow going down coming from percolation waters; the pluviometric fluctuations are smoothed with the depths where this percolation water penetrates in the mineral-water sheet,
  • an ascending underground water flow, coming from one or more water arteries resulting from a hydrothermal reservoir. The feedings of this or these water arteries are the leading cause of the mineralization of the mineral-water sheet (and not, as much believe it, of the washing of the grounds by percolation waters)

This related flow - which takes the two forms mentioned above - is balanced by an efferent flow, because any mineral-water sheet is integrated into a hydrogeological flow: what enters must leave. This efferent flow takes the shape of water veins which feed of the sheets surface. A natural mineral water is never a fossil water (without external exchange) which one extracts in a nonrenewable way (as it is the case of oil or gas).

The table below synthesizes the characteristics of our service of mineral-water survey.

Service of mineral-water survey

Purpose continued by the client:

Natural mineral water Extraction.

Particular Conditions (added to the general terms):

The particular conditions of our intervention rest on hydrogeological prerequisites of nature:

  • historical absence of surface contamination,
  • important basin of collection,
  • important pluviometric feeding.

Nature of the swift service:

We guarantee the stable character of the profile of mineralization and the durable character of extracted flow.

We provide following information on the optimal point of exploitation of the aquifer (mineral-water) which we would have identified:

  • precise positioning on site, except for the centimetre, of projection on the ground of the optimal collecting location,
  • the precise GPS coordinates, possibly reproduced on a chart provided by the client, of this point of extraction,
  • precise positioning on site, except for the centimetre, of the points, by one or more water arteries of the aquifer to be exploited,
  • the precise GPS coordinates, possibly reproduced on a chart provided by the client, of this or these points,
  • an estimate of drilling depth to 30 % closeto the exurgence point,
    • this precision on the depth of collecting well is what we can reach of better in the actual position of the techniques put in work, but we work to improve this value,
    • this inaccuracy in the estimate depth requires a vertical drilling to reach with certainty the exurgence point (which is the only point “useful to know” of a mineral-water reservoir).
  • an estimate of exploitable maximum mass flow of the mineral-water reservoir with a margin of 30%.

Contrary to competition, exploratory drillings are not used to us to specify a locus of extraction, but to precisely measure what we are unable to determine like the profile of mineralization or the chemical composition.

The drilling locations which we specify are points of which we guarantee the productive character, therefore exploitable commercially, and optimal compared to hydrogeological criteria. In the contrary case (i.e. so of other drillings, that or those which we specified, is more productive), no fee is due.

Duration:

One indicative duration is of about a one week.

Cost and conditions:

The cost of an angiogeoscopy is negotiated with the client. It depends exclusively on the flow rate collected. It is not due:

  • that after marketing of extracted water (like mineral water or not),
  • that if no best locus of collecting well could be discovered on the site (apart from a radius of 50 meters around the point or drilling locations specified [S]).

Alternatively, and if a exploratory drilling already were carried out or is in progress, our fees could also be calculated proportionally for the marginal benefit carried out compared to the result got by concurrent explorations. The proportionality factor is obviously not the same one as in the preceding case.

Deliverable:

For each angiogeoscopy carried out, we deliver a data sheet taking again all the information collected within the framework of our service of mineral-water survey (before exploratory drilling).

We make sign by our client each one of these data sheets for reception, because those have a contractual value and our fees - or the absence of those - depend on it.

Invoicing:

Our fees are invoiced quarterly on the basis of produced quantity of mineral water starting from or of the collecting locations which we specified. We thus invoice only after the marketing of this water (and in so far as all the conditions of garanteed result that we offer were met).

Reserves:

In Addition To the reserves issued for the hydrothermal survey which also apply to the mineral-water survey, we can guarantee neither the existence, nor the nature of therapeutic virtues.

After execution of an angiogeological survey, only one exploratory drilling by exurgence point is enough to collect all the data necessary to the determination of the mineral-water potential of a water bearing site (in terms of flow and profile of mineralization).

Technology

  • Direct Detection
  • Indirect Detection
  • Interpreting the Results
  • Benefits

Angiogeology

  • Scientific Background
  • Hydrodynamical models
  • Breakthrough
  • Paradigm shift

Services

  • Hydromineral Prospection
  • Hydrothermal Prospection
  • Geothermal Prospection
  • Water Supply Prospection

Benefits

  • Optimizing the Drilling Location
  • Reliability of the Specification
  • Results-based Fee only
  • Fast and Accurate