Vato Consulting has worked on projects in diverse geographical and geological settings in countries from Angola through to Zambia:

And worked on a variety of mineral deposit types that include:

• Alluvial / placer gold (Au)
• Banded Iron Formation (BIF)-hosted gold (Au)
• Banded Iron Formation (BIF)-hosted hematite (Fe)
• Basalt-hosted copper (Cu)
• Bedrock-hosted graphite (C)
• Carbonate-hosted zinc-lead - Mississippi Valley- and Irish-Type (Zn-Pb)
• Coal (C)
• Epithermal gold-silver (Au-Ag)
• Heavy mineral sands (Ti)
• Intrusive-hosted nickel (Ni)
• Intrusive-hosted platinum (Pt)
• Intrusive-hosted rare earth elements (REE)
• Ion adsorption clay-type rare earth elements (REE)
• Iron Oxide Copper Gold - IOCG (Fe-Cu-Au)
• Orogenic (lode, quartz vein and shear zone-related) gold (Au)
• Palaeo-placer gold (Au)
• Porphyry copper-gold (Cu-Au)
• Regolith-hosted graphite (C)
• Regolith-hosted supergene gold (Au)
• Sandstone-hosted uranium (U)
• Sediment-hosted copper (Cu)
• Shale-hosted nickel-copper (Ni-Cu)
• Skarn-hosted uranium (U)
• Tailings-hosted gold (Au)
• Volcanic pipe and pyroclastic fluorite-hematite-magnetite (F-Fe)
• Volcanogenic Massive Sulphides - VMS (Au-Cu-Pb-Zn)