You are on the right direction. Do the prospecting work yourself using the JORC system or the canadian or the US school of mine manual for geological investigation. Try to take samples in a 150 x150 grid nodes and of the whole area you put your hopes on. You can even go 200 x 200 or 300 x 300. Dig in 1x1x1 hole, take out all blend with a shovel and take a 2 to 4 lb sample put it in a bag with a tag: hole number in the grid and geographic cordinates. Get an excavator and dig few ofset trenches across the area, take samples of the dirt on each trech length and dep and send to a specialized mining geological lab. Expect to spend few thousand to have it done. If samples shows valuable minerals hire a third party company (could be geological or mining which will cost more or construction one with an excavator) and dig 12 -20 ft deep holes in the same nodes, take all material every 3 ft, blend and take 3 to 5 lbs samples of each. Log all samples and send to the same lab. Make sure not one of the people on the field ware any hand jeweleries. Pay a geologist (preferable be from the lab company) to calculate the resources of the target area. Now you have a bankable geological exploration an investment firm, a mining company or a bank will pay attention to it and get it or help you get it to the next step: technological project.
Good luck
Excellent ,well explanation.
for small miner or prospectors.
don’t have to be that expensive.
some labs can do Up to 3 examples or more ,for just $200 dollars.
in my eyes ,is a very good price.
Just pick some veins or Rocks at Your Lode Claim
(hard Rock mine).
Get some example in different Bags
Take pictures the of the Places were You took the examples.
Write numbers like
Example 1,example 2,example 3.
Crushed and send the examples to a lab,there is lot of Good Labs all around the Western States in the USA.
and in others countries as well.
in few days You can have the result
then You can have more options.
is Not that difficult.