Mineral exploration takes a combination of various systematic scientific investigations intended to locate commercially viable concentrations of minerals or metals in the ground for purposes of mining and exploitation. It generally has involves four stages namely; area selection, generation of targets, resource evaluation and reserve delineation.

Yes. Information from geologic mapping reinforces the assembling of three-dimensional hypotheses that strongly guide exploration and when geologic time is considered, it produces the four dimensional space-time relationships that are essential for understanding of deposit genetic processes and their subsequent modifications.

Minerals are governed by legal provisions and in Uganda for example, The Mining Act, 2003 Cap 248, vests the ownership and control of all minerals in the country in the Government of the Republic of Uganda and provides for acquisition of all minerals rights only through application for the grants.