High-Tech Prospecting

Question 1

Define: Reconnaissance

Answer 1

Military. A search made for useful military info in the field, especially the ground.

Question 2

Define: Pertinent

Answer 2

Relevant or applicable to a particular matter; apposite.

Question 3

Define: Gossan

Answer 3

Is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper part of ore deposit or mineral vein.

Question 4

Define: Showing

Answer 4

A geological map is a special purpose map made to show geological features.

Question 5

Define: Inference

Answer 5

(A) The act or process of inferring is the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former. (B) the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations usually with calculated degrees of certainty.

Question 6

When was the Second World War?

Answer 6

1939-1945

Question 7

What is the post war boom?

Answer 7

Reconstruction and consumer boom.

Question 8

Define: Anomaly

Answer 8

Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form or rule.

Question 9

Define: Susceptibility

Answer 9

The state or fact of being likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.

Question 10

Define: Skarns

Answer 10

In geology, metamorphic zone developed in the contact area around igneous rock intrusions when carbonate sedimentary rocks are invaded by large amounts of silicon, aluminum, iron and magnesium.

Question 11

Define: Electrodes

Answer 11

A conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an object, substance, or region.

Question 12

Define: Voltmeter

Answer 12

An instrument for measuring electric potential in volts.

Question 13

Define: Decays

Answer 13

Radioactive decays the spontaneous transformation of an unstable atomic nucleus into a lighter one, in which radiation is released in the form of alpha particles.

Question 14

Define: Disseminated

Answer 14

Deposit in which usually fine grained ore minerals are scattered throughout the rock.

Question 15

Define: Perpendicular

Answer 15

An angle of 90 degrees to a given line.

Question 16

Define: Graphite

Answer 16

Soft, crystalline form of carbon.

Question 17

Define: Arsenal

Answer 17

(A)An established for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment. (B) a collection of weapons

Question 18

Define: Delineate

Answer 18

To mark, form, or show the outline or border of.

Question 19

Define: Glaciation

Answer 19

The process, condition, or result of being covered by glaciers.

Question 20

Define: Obscure

Answer 20

So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation.

Question 21

Define: Metamorphisim

Answer 21

Is the change of minerals or geologic texture in pre existing rocks.

Question 22

Define: Gangue

Answer 22

Commercially worthless material.