Here's a handy little USB FLIR imaging system for ya for $399 that you plug into your Android or Apple cell phone:
http://www.newark.com/MarketingProductList?orderCode=18AC1044,18AC1045,18AC1046&CMP=e-email-Buyer-220518-NA-FLIR-HERO&et_cid=30021452&et_rid=1237137972&cmp=
I used to have a USB Thermal Camera like this that one of my son's friends felt he needed it more than I did )<:
Oh well at least next time I have the money I can move up to a FLIR thermal imager-mo betta! Ok, so you're wondering how in the Sam Hill (that was the original expression FYI) can you use a thermal imager to find a lode deposit? Easy (compared to the alternative), you wait till a time in either spring or fall where the daytime temps are say in the 80's but then it cools off quickly as the sun goes down. Then you drive around an area that the geological reports show has promise for a lode deposit or where other lode deposits have been found. The surrounding country rock will cool off much quicker than the host rock with the metallic deposit and you will see the temperature difference on the screen.
I never got around to using mine unfortunately so I depended on my Gamma Spectrometer which I located a mine in Little Tujunga Canyon. Was kinda hoping to take the Thermal Imager up to Texas Canyon as there's one spot where gold flakes and nuggets drop into from the hill above. Someday.....
http://www.newark.com/MarketingProductList?orderCode=18AC1044,18AC1045,18AC1046&CMP=e-email-Buyer-220518-NA-FLIR-HERO&et_cid=30021452&et_rid=1237137972&cmp=
I used to have a USB Thermal Camera like this that one of my son's friends felt he needed it more than I did )<:
Oh well at least next time I have the money I can move up to a FLIR thermal imager-mo betta! Ok, so you're wondering how in the Sam Hill (that was the original expression FYI) can you use a thermal imager to find a lode deposit? Easy (compared to the alternative), you wait till a time in either spring or fall where the daytime temps are say in the 80's but then it cools off quickly as the sun goes down. Then you drive around an area that the geological reports show has promise for a lode deposit or where other lode deposits have been found. The surrounding country rock will cool off much quicker than the host rock with the metallic deposit and you will see the temperature difference on the screen.
I never got around to using mine unfortunately so I depended on my Gamma Spectrometer which I located a mine in Little Tujunga Canyon. Was kinda hoping to take the Thermal Imager up to Texas Canyon as there's one spot where gold flakes and nuggets drop into from the hill above. Someday.....
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