More Than Free Gold: Mineral Exploration in Canada Since World War II |
Contents
We Lead The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada | 1 |
Paying for It All Trends in Exploration Funding | 12 |
Prospecting Off Site Geological Modelling | 23 |
Applied Science Goes Prospecting Geophysics | 30 |
Analyzing the Earth Geochemistry | 37 |
Getting at Fortunes in the Ground Equipment at Hand | 48 |
Beating All the Odds Successful Canadian Discoveries and Production | 61 |
All that Glitters Those Stratabound Deposits | 67 |
The World Wants Yellowcake Uranium | 88 |
Black Rock Your Basic Intrusions | 98 |
Hidden in the Rock Porphyries | 107 |
Our Best Friend Kimberlites with Diamonds | 117 |
Faults and Fissures Vein Deposits | 128 |
Silver | 146 |
Mining Leads the Way Some Summary Thoughts | 158 |
Common terms and phrases
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