Learning "how" involves the unforgettable, lonely, sinking feeling of standing on Hatcher Pass back in the 1970's with a rock hammer and a gold pan - looking out over the vast expanse of Alaska. Asking yourself,
WHERE TO DIG?
Not even knowing, you need a detector! A metal detector! A discriminating metal detector! You need Data!
Learning how involves knowing the solution to a problem and drilling deeper. Drilling deeper takes years! Years and years! Filtering out the BS. Learning the science. Learning the technology! Learning the methods. Learning the tools. Learning how the tools work! Testing the tools. Testing the measurements! Testing the DATA. Finding correlation between DATA and GOLD. Finding existing GOLD mines that have DATA. Seeing "cause and effect" between GOLD and DATA.. Not once, but a hundred times. A thousand times. Every time. All the time!
DATA is GOLD. Data is HOW we FIND GOLD! That's how I know!
Stick around! There's more!
- Geowizard

