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The Modern Prospector: Geology, Metals, and Testing Techniques for Success
By Randy Salars
A beginner-friendly guide to investigating a possible mineral find. Follow a sample from field observation through maps, access checks, testing, and a realistic decision about what the evidence means.
Revised Kindle edition coming soon. Planned U.S. Kindle list price: $9.99.
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A striking rock, a line on a map, and a laboratory number can begin a mineral question. None proves a mine. The Modern Prospector follows a fictional exposure through rock history, geologic maps, alteration, field notes, access rights, sampling design, and laboratory results.
Learn to separate observation from interpretation and to ask whether a sample represents the ground you think it does. Each chapter adds a record to a prospecting dossier, giving curious field readers a disciplined way to investigate a claim before a costly next step.
- Follow a fictional rock exposure from first observation through mapping and field notes.
- Consider access rights, sampling design, alteration, and laboratory results before making a claim.
- Build a dossier that separates what was seen from what has only been inferred.
Ask a better question of the ground before paying for the next step.
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The revised edition covers these chapters and reader resources:
- 1. The Observation Before the Claim
- 2. How Rocks Are Made and Changed
- 3. Maps at Three Scales
- 4. Structures, Alteration, and Surface Clues
- 5. A Field Notebook That Can Be Audited
- 6. Rights, Access, and Safe Boundaries
- 7. From Observation to a Sampling Question
- 8. What a Laboratory Result Means
- 9. An Anomaly Is Not a Mine
- 10. The Prospecting Dossier
- The Reader's Prospecting Record
Interested in this book? The revised Kindle edition is coming soon. Its Amazon purchase link will appear here as soon as the edition is live.
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