The perception of association particularly regarding the above and below has always been at best arbitrary. The classic example of this anomaly within the prospector’s world is what was thought to be barren is today possibly rich beyond comprehension. I get a kick out of the doom and gloomers hysterical constant ranting and raving that minerals are finite resources and need to be protected by locking-up the land where they reside. There is no shortage of any natural resource man requires for a better standard of living. In fact there is an abundance of these resources if the regulators and shrieking environmentalists were truthful.

Throughout history it has always been heard that mineral depletion is just around the corner so we must conserve. What is really being said is that those in power don’t want the people having access to nor the information on how to intelligently and economically extract the minerals. It has always been about power and control. If the people have abundant minerals they are essentially free. Innovative entrepreneurial prospectors are the fundamental key that is the finite resource that is being stamped out of existence.

With feet firmly planted upon the ground the prospector has a tendency to look up and speculate what those mountains contain. Similarly, when high in the sky the prospector’s perception is altered when trying to grasp what lays hidden below the same rock formations.

The same thing happens when examining rocks via the magnifying lens. The once upon a time up-high gathered rocks eventually become smal but representative fragments that are being microscopically probed by peering into the mysterious depths of the mountain..

I think it is safe to say that prospecting is primarily about associating visual perceptions. There is the surface and what resides within and usually it is the what that resides within that captures the prospector’s attention. Therefore, whether peering through the microscope or looking down from the sky the objective is to associate what is perceived..

I have never read, nor made a study of what I am about to propose, and it may well be a known reality amongst geologist’s who study high altitude photographs. Nonetheless, whether this hypothesis has merit or not I suspect that the crystalline structures seen under the microscope while conducting microchems have amazingly similar features to some portions of mountains as viewed from a high altitude. Therefore, perhaps someday a prospector will give this possibility some time to determine whether or not what is seen under the microscope has a common bond with the physical terrain as seen from way-up high, such as the camera lens on a satellite. After-all how small is small or how big is big and are they not manifestations of one another?

The point is – if what I am trying to propose has validity perhaps high altitude maps can be compared associated with the crystal formations seen through the magnifying lens and thus used to find specific ore deposits. For instance, a microscopic lead-silver nitrate crystal formation on a glass slide may have almost the same configuration on tiny portions of satellite images. If this an accurate assessment then knowing what microscopic chemical images look like and associating the high altitude land terrain appearance it could help guide a prospector to a specific targets and not only minimize costs, but make new discoveries?