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At the time I had a business in Darwin which occupied myself six days a week not leaving much time for research/prospecting. I arranged with my wife to operate the business for six months full time while I spent every day in the NT Mines Department Library. I read all the early history and compiled a Territory wide list of probable and possible Gold mineralization locations. A positive aside to this was also Copper as they have a love/hate relationship. Next I reviewed all the tenement maps and listed their numbers and their owners, from this I was able to access all open file reports on exploration results. Resulting in a thinning down of potential prospects,

Now armed with this back to the current tenement maps to ascertain what areas were unpegged or not applied for. Resulting in several groups of new applications. Meanwhile I now had a list of areas I wanted to apply for when or if possible. My next move was to compile all known open file information covering the new applications I had made. Then when possible I tracked down the Geo's or field hands who had been working in the area and had a yarn with them about what they saw and did, Not forgetting local prospectors who had travelled in these areas.

From this I developed a work plan of where I would start my exploration. Depending on where and the size of the tenements I would travel to the areas of interest and make myself knowledgeable with the Topography and how to move through the country. Then start sampling. We had no GPS's or the like but used dead reckoning and when that did not work resort to the compass, This was possible if you had a known fixed point so X army topography maps were essential.
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<blockquote data-quote="Norm" data-source="post: 676724" data-attributes="member: 20466">At the time I had a business in Darwin which occupied myself six days a week not leaving much time for research/prospecting. I arranged with my wife to operate the business for six months full time while I spent every day in the NT Mines Department Library. I read all the early history and compiled a Territory wide list of probable and possible Gold mineralization locations. A positive aside to this was also Copper as they have a love/hate relationship. Next I reviewed all the tenement maps and listed their numbers and their owners, from this I was able to access all open file reports on exploration results. Resulting in a thinning down of potential prospects,Now armed with this back to the current tenement maps to ascertain what areas were unpegged or not applied for. Resulting in several groups of new applications. Meanwhile I now had a list of areas I wanted to apply for when or if possible. My next move was to compile all known open file information covering the new applications I had made. Then when possible I tracked down the Geo&#039;s or field hands who had been working in the area and had a yarn with them about what they saw and did, Not forgetting local prospectors who had travelled in these areas.From this I developed a work plan of where I would start my exploration. Depending on where and the size of the tenements I would travel to the areas of interest and make myself knowledgeable with the Topography and how to move through the country. Then start sampling. We had no GPS&#039;s or the like but used dead reckoning and when that did not work resort to the compass, This was possible if you had a known fixed point so X army topography maps were essential.Interval</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norm, post: 676724, member: 20466"] At the time I had a business in Darwin which occupied myself six days a week not leaving much time for research/prospecting. I arranged with my wife to operate the business for six months full time while I spent every day in the NT Mines Department Library. I read all the early history and compiled a Territory wide list of probable and possible Gold mineralization locations. A positive aside to this was also Copper as they have a love/hate relationship. Next I reviewed all the tenement maps and listed their numbers and their owners, from this I was able to access all open file reports on exploration results. Resulting in a thinning down of potential prospects, Now armed with this back to the current tenement maps to ascertain what areas were unpegged or not applied for. Resulting in several groups of new applications. Meanwhile I now had a list of areas I wanted to apply for when or if possible. My next move was to compile all known open file information covering the new applications I had made. Then when possible I tracked down the Geo's or field hands who had been working in the area and had a yarn with them about what they saw and did, Not forgetting local prospectors who had travelled in these areas. From this I developed a work plan of where I would start my exploration. Depending on where and the size of the tenements I would travel to the areas of interest and make myself knowledgeable with the Topography and how to move through the country. Then start sampling. We had no GPS's or the like but used dead reckoning and when that did not work resort to the compass, This was possible if you had a known fixed point so X army topography maps were essential. Interval [/QUOTE]

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