Triangle Base Line

As we had said before, locating the space between the base lines is determined by the slopes the land has and the experience and sense of the prospector himself. There are gentle slopes in where the territory might only go up a few feet per mile and the distance between the base lines might be as far as mile or even more in some cases. In the cases of short search lines and a steep land, the slope can go up to ten feet every thirty yards and this would then have to be the following base line. The unlimited base line would have to be at the end of the cliff where the search would be done at the bottom and the following search at the top.

After the following base line has been defined the same method of sampling will need to take place as it was done on the original base line. The space in between the holes will become less and preferably should slink inward in the same way as the outside legs of the search triangle do. However this is not a factor that should be too focused on because it does not have a lot to do with final results.

As the search is going on and the base lines become smaller it is possible to methodically look for more lines in less amount of time. However make sure you always stick to the two main rules of the search triangle, which are to always look on the contour line and then move up to a higher contour line for the next search. Do not go back and forth in between the distances from the ground before you have finished searching a base line. The next rule to always keep in mind is to not skip over the base lines indiscriminately. Obviously if there is a good reason to skip over them such as if the topography of the base line is impassable etc, however in most cases all the predefined base lines should be looked into well.

There are certain moments in where you will need to change the search line and begin a new search triangle supported on fact. This is why it is so important to keep a record of how the sample holes that are made become pretty obvious.

On some occasions in a search that the wrong high point has been chosen for the search to take place. In most cases the starting point source of gold is located in a lower high point. This is more often than not true if the original search triangle was very big and covered many square miles like might occur in a place such as Alaska for example.