Field checklist for preliminary obse

Geological Maps

Status of the area

Topography of the terrain

Regional geology and structure of the terrain

Size of the ore body

Outline of the ore body

Types of ore bodies

Nature of the enclosing rock

 Field checklist for preliminary observation in an exploration camping
(a) Regional 1:250k / 1:100k
(b) Detailed 1:10k

(a) Developed area with good communications, or

(b) Undeveloped area

(a) Plain/wooded/barren
(b) Hilly/wooded/barren
(c) Mountainous/wooded/barren

(a) Igneous,
(b) Sedimentary,
(c) Metamorphic,
(d) Residual,
(e) Alluvial terrain,
(f) Structure and tectonics-sample or complicated

(a) Length,
(b) Width, and
(c) Depth

(a) Simple, irregular, or

(b) Complex

(a) Capping,
(b) Reef,
(c) Veins (various types of veins),
(d) Disseminations,
(e) Lenses and pockets and other irregular bodies, or
(f) Stratied sedimentary beds

(a) Lithology,
(b) Hard, medium, soft, friable, etc.
ervation in an exploration camping
(a) Regional 1:100k / 1:50k
Topographic Sheets (b) Detailed 1:25k

(a) Pronounced,
(b) Prominent,
Wall rock alteration (c) Not prominent of
(d) Totally absent

(a) Monomineralic,
Mineralogy (b) Polymineralic, and
(c) Nature of gangue minerals

(a) Simple,
(b) Fairly complex,
Structure (c) Complex, or
(d) Very complex

(a) Extent of overburden

(i) No overburden,
(ii) Partially covered by overburden, or
(iii) Fully covered by overburden
Disposition (b) Depth extension
(i) Conned to the surface,
(ii) Partially conned to the surface, or
(iii) Fully extending underground

(a) Present, but not likely to cause any trouble,

(b) Present and likely to interface with drilling, pitting,
Ground/surface water trenching, aditing, etc. or
(c) Not present at all

(a) Clear, or
Field evidence about ore genesis (b) Not clear

(a) Desert,
Climate of the area with records of rainfall (b) Arid,
and temperature variations (c) Semiarid,
(d) Humid, etc.