Tracking Search

The tracking search is more technical and takes place along the base line. When the base line is long samples holes are dug into it. However there is not really any way of being able to predetermine the size of a hole or the depth of a hole. In some cases surface samples will be enough, while there are other occasions in which a prospect hole will have to be dug at several feet in depth. This needs to be decided on in the site and largely depends on the prospector’s estimate of the nature of the agent that has transported and the depth that the valuable mineral has been deposited at.

Whenever there is a short base line, a good many prospectors turn to trenching the whole line, even though this trench might not always go along with the a contour line, some of the greatest outcomes have been gained when it is very close by. This system is very arduous at this point in the game and the pull to take the samples at different points along the trench. This turns the trench method into a prospect hole structure and overcomes the whole purpose to begin with. In order to be able to indicate the actual richness of a trench method, the whole gravel that is removed should be piled up and needs to be sampled because due to the fact that this procedure would overcome the pattern of accumulation theory, it should also rule out the trench method for tracking search.

Trenching in the beginning periods of the base line search most likely does not reveal more than the sample hole method and should not be done until the last narrow lines. This method is much better when it comes to finding a buried outcrop and is usually in most cases utilized for this specific reason.