is the process of searching for evidence of any mineralisation hosted in the surrounding rocks. The general principle works by extracting pieces of geological information from several places, and extrapolating this over the larger area to develop a geological picture.
Prospecting and exploration methods of iron ores involve preliminaries to actual field exploration, such as geological mapping, aerial photography, geochemistry and and bio-geo- chemistry, electrical surveying, drilling, geophysical surveying including aeromagnetic surveying and gravimetric surveying.
is a broad term describing the search for economically exploitable gold deposits and the extension of existing deposits. The classic image of gold exploration is the lone Prospector panning for gold.