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EVIDENCE has accumulated during recent years that physical methods can be used under suitable conditions to facilitate the detection and location of minerals buried under the ground. This is a fact of considerable economic importance, having regard to the very great and wasteful expense of indiscriminate boring. Even the most careful geological survey often fails to fix with sufficient accuracy the points at which drilling is likely to be successful. Here, properly applied, physics may make its contribution to enhance the probability of success.
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RANKINE, A. Physics in Relation to Oil Finding1. Nature 123, 684–686 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123684a0
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