Effective exploration in a frontier such as Alaska is not a result of happenstance or luck. A careful geologic and economic evaluation is a prerequisite in any new frontier. The decision of an aggressive management to explore actively the potential of the area and to commit qualified, experienced, geological and geophysical personnel well versed in the modern integrated techniques of exploration is essential to a successful exploration program.

The explorationist must be versatile and adaptable to operations in an area of excessive costs, where exploration is completely dependent on climatic conditions, and where transportation facilities are poor to non-existent. These conditions are a challenge to the most competent explorationist, even with all the modern exploration techniques at his command. The most modern techniques are needed in Alaska.

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