How to Look for a Mineral

After having made the decision of which minerals to look for, based on the initial considerations of economic and political character, the means that are to be applied about how to look for a mineral are initially directed by geological considerations and schematically are put into action depending on three successive phases of application which includes:

• Documentation and preparation stage
• Prospecting phase
• Geological deposit appraisal

Each one of these phases is made up by different techniques or methods that are applied when the objectives that have been fixed little by little are changed. Each prospecting method needs to be done with extreme care, whether in the simple exam of an outcrop, in a sampling done with a pan, as well as in the recollection of the witnesses in the drilling. In most cases it is the prospector that is usually trusted with the responsibility of these jobs and if it possible an engineer as well, whom should be capable of accomplishing labors, even complex ones, to avoid the sending a specialist into the land which is often times very costly. Therefore he will have to retrieve data through simple geophysical prospecting techniques, carry out some probing, excavate certain areas or exploration wells, and he will also need to know all the sampling techniques, which is an operations that will most likely be the most important and the most delicate of all the mining investigation phases.