Adding a Certainty Component to Prospecting

Decoding Aeromagnetic Maps using the Secrets of “Hotspots”

Hotspot plumes created mineral rich ore bodies all over South Africa and Namibia.

To find them required surface exploration, remotely sensed data and drilling. All these processes are expensive and financially high risk.

This book outlines how analysis of aeromagnetic maps revealed a logical system that explains how the known deposits got there. With this knowledge a prospecting campaign attains a revolutionary component of certainty. The book reveals the secrets of the tracks of fifteen mantle plumes or “hotspots” that visited Southern Africa over a period of billions of years.

It further explains how, as a result, this portion of the African continent was initiated and how it was built out to the sub-continent that is there today. The book introduces the notion of “platelets” that moved after the departure of a hotspot, and explains the reasons why such movement could be sustained for a period.