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After two decades of intense activity and expansion, mineral exploration is at a crossroad. Slichter’s timely call of 1960 for a new philosophy of mineral exploration has to be renewed now. The spectacular successes of the 1960s and the 1970s resulting from the massive injection of new technology were often accompanied by much waste of talent and resources and unnecessary duplication which cannot be repeated in the present circumstances of economic difficulties and financial stringency.
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De Geoffroy, J.G., Wignall, T.K. (1985). Conclusion. In: Designing Optimal Strategies for Mineral Exploration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1230-7_13
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