Gold exploration success

Abstract

Discovery of a goldfield is a rare and difficult event, which contrasts with the normal outcome of exploration that is non-discovery. As there are many gold provinces globally and numerous discoveries annually, the recent and historical records of success are a great source of ideas to learn from and to enhance the rate of discovery. Over the last two decades, important gold discoveries have been made in well-established gold provinces such as Australia, Canada and USA, regions with a long history of production like Ghana, and some further countries such as China, Mali, Tanzania and Peru that received lesser attention during the twentieth century. In contrast to the dominance of gold-only de..