Show it NEW SCHEME OF prospecting URGED wildcatting in the exploration of metal mining regions ions was urged at one of the sessions of the twenty fifth annual convention of the american mining congress by walter H trask formerly cashier central national bank denver colo who declared that it would be well for metal mine operators and developers to apply to their activities many of the exploration methods used in the oil industry outlining the depend dependence enie which the mining industry must place in the future upon intensive geologic research after the more obvious deposits have been exhausted mr tracks paper incorporated the z geological theory that major faults were capped after their formation and that no efforts to develop them for their mineral contents shou should id be made unless ample provision for exploration at depth was assured the more inore logical method of exploration it was stated would be to search for minor faults and fissures sur rounding the major faults it is in these minor faults declared mr barsk that the mineralized solutions and gases find relief in their desire to escape and they only begin to deposit their burden in quantity when relief from these conditions is obtained it is in intensive exploration of areas surrounding major faults that wildcatting will come to the fore forces as a means of adding materially to to the production of the In minima ining industry according to mr tracks theory the psychological time is at hand for intelligent prospecting pec ting concluded mr tracks presentation of the theory the t in general find a major fault locate and prospect ay minor faults and work will be carried on i in essential favorable localities when a mineralized minor fault is found other minor faults roughly parallel to its ae gea and direction as well as cross faults are to be expected a are likely to be highly productive often some of these tl be secondary ones do not reach the surface and must searched for in cross cuts or by the diamond drill all al I 1 these tn factors should be remembered and capitalized in consi cons ider is ing conditions in old mining centers where it perhaps bodi es thought that all possible paying ore channels or W have already been discovered and explored I 1 |