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Gold Prospecting e-News, Issue #021 - Free Geological Maps and Legend Document
August 15, 2012
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Free Geological Maps

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Free Geological Maps

Legend Documents for Geological Maps in WA

LAST FEW VACANCIES for Gold Prospecting Seminars in Cue in 2012

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Free Geological Maps

At the Gold Prospecting Seminars that Udo and I run in Cue, we show people how to use Geomap to target locations where they can find gold .

Geomap is also a wonderful free product provided by the Dept of Mines and Petroleum and we will put out a full newsletter on that in the future.

Geomap is a Geographical Information viewer similar to Oziexplorer and TrackRanger which enables you to;

  • Load and overlay maps such as Geological Maps and Topographical Maps
  • Overlay shapefiles like the current "live and pending tenements" or Goldmine Finder Mine locations over the top of Geological or Topographical Maps
  • Query the information on the databases connected to the shapefiles - such as the tenement information or type of mines.
  • Create your own tracks and digitize them to recall the information about where you found that gold in the future
  • Connect your computer to your GPS so you can have moving map and see exactly where you are "on the ground" in relation to the Geology or tenement when you are driving through the bush.
  • Link to the Department of Mines and Petroleum Website for further information about the data you are looking at if you have connection to the Internet

We explain Geomap and train people how to use it at our Gold Prospecting Seminars and provide a host of data, geological maps and topographical maps for the course participant to use.

Links to Free Geological Maps and Geological Map Legend Documents

Some of the maps that you can download are from the Dept of Mines Data and Software Centre such as the 1:100000 and 1:250000 Mosaic Images available from this page:

Free Geological Maps

These maps however do not have legends attached to them because they are images of many geological Maps in an area that are joined together and the legend parts of the maps have been removed

However if you need to interpret the information on these maps when using them in Geomap you will need a Legend.


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Legend Documents for Geological Maps in WA

There are two options to help you obtain the legend information for the tiled Mosaic maps that you download from the DMP Data and Software Centre.

(1) A Geoscience legend document which gives you the broad legend of the various types of rocks and structures - available for free digital download here;

Geological Maps Legend Document

That is obtained by going to this page first ; PLEASE NOTE THIS LINK WAS REMOVED DUE TO CHANGES TO ANOTHER WEBSITE ON 15/10/2015,SORRY ....BILL if you have a problem which will explain to you why there is no standard colours for geo maps as well.

(2).... Or, Download the individual map that you require for your project which will include the legend on the map. (For Further Information See this page on our website, Free Geological Maps )


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Last Few Vacancies Left for Gold Prospecting Seminars in 2012;

Gold Prospecting Lessons Cue 2012 - Dates

Total Available Places

Places Left

1, 2 September103
8, 9 September103

There will be no more Seminars in 2012 so those last few positions are all that is left this year.


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What People Are Saying About the Seminars

We have had some great feedback about the courses both on the Facebook page and via email like this email.

The thing that makes us the happiest though is when people drop in and tell us about the gold they are finding, that is happening regularly after the seminars.

We were there at Cue on the 28th and 29th of July 2012 ,and will truly recommend to anyone who is even slightly interested in prospecting to give it serious consideration if you have a desire to be successful in finding gold.

I can honestly state neither Alan or myself had ever detected prior and after the two day course we both found gold , lucky maybe , but without the tuition from your seminar we would not have stood a hope in hell of finding the elusive yellow metal or operating the Minelab 5000 detectors.

We thank you for your encouragement , friendship and direction. Thanks also for continuing interest after the course, supplying directions for likely legal detecting areas ,and the continuing invitation to prospect on Udo’s lease.

We had a great week and thank you all from the two of us .We would recommend this seminar to anyone who is interested without doubt . All the very best to you all and thanks again

More Details About the Metal Detecting Seminars in Cue

Full Details are available at Gold Prospecting Lessons Cue

The Terms and Conditions relating to the Gold prospecting Seminars are available on this page:

Click Here for further Information and Important Terms and Conditions


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Facebook Page for Gold Prospecting WA

There are some pics and stories on our Facebook Page about the seminars in Cue

Gold Prospecting WA Facebook Page


Keep Detecting and keep well,

Nobody gets ALL the gold. Theres still plenty left for you. i>

Udo and Bill

p.s. If you want to do this Seminar just email us NOW by return (Click Reply to this email) there is only a few vacancies for the last two courses left in 2012.... Then that's it until 2013

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