Prospecting and exploration of minerals deposits
Discipline of the studies form the subject of geological science which studies the genesis of mineral resources and the measures for estimation of economic deposits, i.e. those recoverable under present conditions. Together with economic geology, hydrogcology and engineering geology, it forms part of applied geology. The discipline uses the same principal method – field observation – as the geological sciences, and geological considerations in the choice of methods come before economic and mining ones. It summarizes both theoretical and practical knowledge in geological and other fields (tectonics, stratigraphy, mineralogy, palaeontology, geomorphology, geophysics, geodesy, economics, mining) and utilizes this for a rational, scientifically substantiated search for mineral deposits and their qualitative and quantitative assessment. The task of exploration ends with the collection of those data and the development and exploitation of deposits lie in the fields of mining and mining geology.