Point structure report

-2.87411, 32.21903 · 4000 m × 4000 m window (2000 m each side) · AOI_E0320_S030 · generated 5 Nov 2026, 03:54 EAT

🟢 On structure. The nearest mapped break is 678 m away, bearing NNW (334°), running NE–SW. Calibration on Tanzanian deposits put 74% of fault-following occurrences within 3 km of a DEM lineament. That is a favourability statement about the ground, not a prediction of gold.

Where this is

Lat / Lng (WGS84)-2.874110, 32.219030 Degrees / minutes2°52'26.8"S 32°13'08.5"E UTM Arc 196036M 413 122E 9 682 595N Window corners-2.89220 → -2.85602 lat, 32.20104 → 32.23702 lon Window area16.00 km² QDS cellAOI_E0320_S030

The window

L214L241L306L9L222L8L18L157L205L27L104L34L5L64L19L57L262L267L266123456789101112NORTH +2000 mSOUTH +2000 mWEST +2000 mEAST +2000 m500 mN
scarp — a step in the ground, i.e. a fault valley — an eroded fracture zone ridge — a resistant band or a dyke mixed — the terrain disagrees along it crossing inside the window ranked node numbered target (T1, T2 …) proposed trench line soil sampling line

Grid squares are 500 m. Dashed rings sit at 400 m, 1000 m and 2000 m from the point. Traces are clipped to the window; a line may continue well beyond it.

Walking out from the point

What each bearing meets between the point and the edge of the window.

BearingReachFirst structure metDistanceWhat it is
N (0°) 2000 m L306, striking 54° (NE–SW) 1018 m scarp
NE (45°) 2828 m nothing crossed on this bearing
E (90°) 2000 m nothing crossed on this bearing
SE (135°) 2828 m nothing crossed on this bearing
S (180°) 2000 m nothing crossed on this bearing
SW (225°) 2828 m nothing crossed on this bearing
W (270°) 2000 m L241, striking 62° (NE–SW) 1177 m scarp
NW (315°) 2828 m L27, striking 45° (NE–SW) 1705 m scarp

Traces leaving the window: north edge 6, east 0, south 0, west 9. A structure that exits an edge continues beyond this report — prospect along it, not across it.

Structures inside the window

#VerdictDistanceBearing to it StrikeIn windowFull length ReliefThrowAgreement
L214 scarp 678 m NNW (334°) 35° 1088 m 1.09 km 181 m 52.1 m 100%
L241 scarp 764 m WNW (288°) 62° 1049 m 1.05 km 142 m 22.1 m 67%
L306 scarp 826 m NW (325°) 54° 994 m 995 m 180 m 46.2 m 78%
L9 scarp 1.20 km WNW (291°) 61° 998 m 2.16 km 141 m 55.9 m 78%
L222 scarp 1.38 km NNW (344°) 53° 1080 m 1.08 km 142 m 46.5 m 67%
L8 mixed 1.58 km WNW (292°) 50° 693 m 2.17 km 118 m 0 m 44%
L18 ridge 1.63 km WNW (285°) 15° 1723 m 1.72 km 118 m 0 m 56%
L157 scarp 1.65 km W (281°) 61° 431 m 1.16 km 159 m 89.9 m 56%
L205 scarp 1.71 km NNW (328°) 22° 608 m 1.10 km 63 m 74.6 m 56%
L27 scarp 1.71 km NW (315°) 45° 1367 m 1.62 km 114 m 64.5 m 78%
L104 mixed 1.80 km NNW (344°) 52° 467 m 1.25 km 139 m 0 m 44%
L34 ridge 1.93 km N (351°) 45° 145 m 1.53 km 126 m 0 m 78%
L5 scarp 2.02 km WNW (288°) 18° 1548 m 2.34 km 85 m 62.7 m 67%
L64 ridge 2.10 km WNW (289°) 48° 10 m 1.38 km 108 m 0 m 56%
L19 scarp 2.12 km WNW (301°) 22° 979 m 1.71 km 144 m 69.7 m 67%
L57 scarp 2.14 km NW (308°) 38° 1370 m 1.41 km 107 m 51.7 m 67%
L262 scarp 2.23 km WNW (302°) 51° 129 m 1.03 km 168 m 65.1 m 78%
L267 valley 2.31 km SW (234°) 95° 132 m 1.02 km 37 m 0 m 100%
L266 valley 2.55 km WNW (303°) 25° 346 m 1.02 km 156 m 0 m 56%

Line by line

Line L214 — 678 m NNW of the point

Strikes 35° (NE–SW), carrying 1088 m of trace through the window out of 1.09 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. The point sits 678 m to the SSE of it.

Line rank derived214 Strike (°) measured34.6 Total trace length (m) measured1088.8 Angle to regional trend (°) derived13.1 Structural class modelledR_synthetic Affinity modelled1 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured181 Throw (m) measured52.1 Agreement along line derived1 Valley score modelled0 Ridge score modelled0 Expression (m) derived181 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86861, 32.21639

In plain terms. The ground drops about 52 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves the same way along most of its length, which is what a single continuous structure looks like. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12891348140714661525trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L241 — 764 m WNW of the point

Strikes 62° (NE–SW), carrying 1049 m of trace through the window out of 1.05 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. The point sits 764 m to the ESE of it.

Line rank derived241 Strike (°) measured61.9 Total trace length (m) measured1050.4 Angle to regional trend (°) derived14.2 Structural class modelledR_synthetic Affinity modelled1 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured142 Throw (m) measured22.1 Agreement along line derived0.67 Valley score modelled0.22 Ridge score modelled0 Expression (m) derived142 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.87194, 32.21250

In plain terms. The ground drops about 22 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12791327137614251474trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L306 — 826 m NW of the point

Strikes 54° (NE–SW), carrying 994 m of trace through the window out of 995 m in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. The point sits 826 m to the SE of it.

Line rank derived306 Strike (°) measured53.8 Total trace length (m) measured995 Angle to regional trend (°) derived6.1 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured180 Throw (m) measured46.2 Agreement along line derived0.78 Valley score modelled0.22 Ridge score modelled0 Expression (m) derived180 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86806, 32.21472

In plain terms. The ground drops about 46 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves the same way along most of its length, which is what a single continuous structure looks like. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12901347140414611518trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L9 — 1.20 km WNW of the point

Strikes 61° (NE–SW), carrying 998 m of trace through the window out of 2.16 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. It leaves the window through the W edge. The point sits 1.20 km to the ESE of it.

Line rank derived9 Strike (°) measured60.8 Total trace length (m) measured2157.6 Angle to regional trend (°) derived13.1 Structural class modelledR_synthetic Affinity modelled1 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived2 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured141 Throw (m) measured55.9 Agreement along line derived0.78 Valley score modelled0 Ridge score modelled0.11 Expression (m) derived141 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.87028, 32.20889

In plain terms. The ground drops about 56 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves the same way along most of its length, which is what a single continuous structure looks like. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12481325140314801557trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L222 — 1.38 km NNW of the point

Strikes 53° (NE–SW), carrying 1080 m of trace through the window out of 1.08 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. The point sits 1.38 km to the SSE of it.

Line rank derived222 Strike (°) measured53.1 Total trace length (m) measured1081.4 Angle to regional trend (°) derived5.4 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured142 Throw (m) measured46.5 Agreement along line derived0.67 Valley score modelled0.11 Ridge score modelled0.22 Expression (m) derived142 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86222, 32.21556

In plain terms. The ground drops about 47 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13231373142314731524trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L8 — 1.58 km WNW of the point

Strikes 50° (NE–SW), carrying 693 m of trace through the window out of 2.17 km in total. The cross-section pass called it mixed — the terrain disagrees along it — treat it with care and check the map. It leaves the window through the W edge. The point sits 1.58 km to the ESE of it.

Line rank derived8 Strike (°) measured50.2 Total trace length (m) measured2172.1 Angle to regional trend (°) derived2.5 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived2 Cross-section verdict derivedmixed Relief (m) measured118 Throw (m) measured0 Agreement along line derived0.44 Valley score modelled0.22 Ridge score modelled0.33 Expression (m) derived118 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86889, 32.20583

In plain terms. The cross-section pass could not decide what the ground does across this line. The 118 m of height change across it is the shape of the hillside, not an offset. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12401312138514571529trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L18 — 1.63 km WNW of the point

Strikes 15° (N–S), carrying 1723 m of trace through the window out of 1.72 km in total. The cross-section pass called it ridge — a resistant band or a dyke — the break is cemented or intruded. The point sits 1.63 km to the ESE of it.

Line rank derived18 Strike (°) measured14.5 Total trace length (m) measured1724.9 Angle to regional trend (°) derived33.2 Structural class modelledoblique Affinity modelled0.55 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedridge Relief (m) measured118 Throw (m) measured0 Agreement along line derived0.56 Valley score modelled0 Ridge score modelled0.56 Expression (m) derived118 Sections measured measured9 Notch depth (m) measured39.5 Notch width (m) measured507.9 Wall asymmetry measured1.18 V-shape index derived0.73 U-shape index derived0.27 Nearest point of the trace -2.87043, 32.20481

In plain terms. The land stands up along this line instead of being cut into. Something there resists weathering better than its surroundings: a quartz vein, a dyke, or rock cemented by old fluid. The 118 m of height change across it is the shape of the hillside, not an offset. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13591406145315001547trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L157 — 1.65 km W of the point

Strikes 61° (NE–SW), carrying 431 m of trace through the window out of 1.16 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. It leaves the window through the W edge. The point sits 1.65 km to the E of it.

Line rank derived157 Strike (°) measured61.4 Total trace length (m) measured1161.2 Angle to regional trend (°) derived13.7 Structural class modelledR_synthetic Affinity modelled1 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured159 Throw (m) measured89.9 Agreement along line derived0.56 Valley score modelled0.22 Ridge score modelled0.22 Expression (m) derived159 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.87139, 32.20444

In plain terms. The ground drops about 90 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

12731337140014631527trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L205 — 1.71 km NNW of the point

Strikes 22° (N–S), carrying 608 m of trace through the window out of 1.10 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. It leaves the window through the N edge. The point sits 1.71 km to the SSE of it.

Line rank derived205 Strike (°) measured21.5 Total trace length (m) measured1096.6 Angle to regional trend (°) derived26.2 Structural class modelledR_synthetic Affinity modelled1 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured63 Throw (m) measured74.6 Agreement along line derived0.56 Valley score modelled0.44 Ridge score modelled0 Expression (m) derived63 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86111, 32.21083

In plain terms. The ground drops about 75 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13871422145714921528trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L27 — 1.71 km NW of the point

Strikes 45° (NE–SW), carrying 1367 m of trace through the window out of 1.62 km in total. The cross-section pass called it scarp — a real step in the ground — the strongest kind of evidence this pipeline produces. It leaves the window through the N edge. The point sits 1.71 km to the SE of it.

Line rank derived27 Strike (°) measured45 Total trace length (m) measured1617 Angle to regional trend (°) derived2.7 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedscarp Relief (m) measured114 Throw (m) measured64.5 Agreement along line derived0.78 Valley score modelled0.11 Ridge score modelled0 Expression (m) derived114 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.86325, 32.20814

In plain terms. The ground drops about 65 m from one side of this line to the other, and that step survives once the general slope of the land is taken out. Rock moved here. It behaves the same way along most of its length, which is what a single continuous structure looks like. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13471390143214751518trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L104 — 1.80 km NNW of the point

Strikes 52° (NE–SW), carrying 467 m of trace through the window out of 1.25 km in total. The cross-section pass called it mixed — the terrain disagrees along it — treat it with care and check the map. It leaves the window through the N edge. The point sits 1.80 km to the SSE of it.

Line rank derived104 Strike (°) measured52 Total trace length (m) measured1254.7 Angle to regional trend (°) derived4.3 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedmixed Relief (m) measured139 Throw (m) measured0 Agreement along line derived0.44 Valley score modelled0 Ridge score modelled0.44 Expression (m) derived139 Sections measured measured9 Nearest point of the trace -2.85861, 32.21444

In plain terms. The cross-section pass could not decide what the ground does across this line. The 139 m of height change across it is the shape of the hillside, not an offset. It behaves this way along a little over half its length, so it is probably more than one thing joined end to end — worth walking before choosing where to dig. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13641409145314981542trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Line L34 — 1.93 km N of the point

Strikes 45° (NE–SW), carrying 145 m of trace through the window out of 1.53 km in total. The cross-section pass called it ridge — a resistant band or a dyke — the break is cemented or intruded. It leaves the window through the N edge. The point sits 1.93 km to the S of it.

Line rank derived34 Strike (°) measured45 Total trace length (m) measured1529.6 Angle to regional trend (°) derived2.7 Structural class modelledon_trend Affinity modelled0.3 Near a class boundary modelledyes Fragments merged derived1 Cross-section verdict derivedridge Relief (m) measured126 Throw (m) measured0 Agreement along line derived0.78 Valley score modelled0 Ridge score modelled0.78 Expression (m) derived126 Sections measured measured9 Notch depth (m) measured29.6 Notch width (m) measured544.6 Wall asymmetry measured1.23 V-shape index derived0.76 U-shape index derived0.24 Nearest point of the trace -2.85694, 32.21639

In plain terms. The land stands up along this line instead of being cut into. Something there resists weathering better than its surroundings: a quartz vein, a dyke, or rock cemented by old fluid. The 126 m of height change across it is the shape of the hillside, not an offset. It behaves the same way along most of its length, which is what a single continuous structure looks like. What it does not tell you is whether there is gold in it. Only digging across it does that.

Measured ground across it

13751422146815151562trace-400 m+410 m

Median elevation across the trace, sampled 400 m either side at 9 places along the line; the shaded band is the 10th–90th percentile of those samples. Noise floor 8 m. A real fault steps, a fracture zone notches, a field edge stays flat.

Showing the 12 nearest of 19 structures. The full set is in the JSON export.

Just outside the window

VerdictDistanceBearingStrikeFull length
scarp 2.24 km NNE (12°) 77° 982 m
scarp 2.43 km N (9°) 65° 1.02 km
scarp 2.54 km WNW (297°) 30° 1.04 km
scarp 2.58 km NW (325°) 46° 1.60 km
scarp 2.59 km NNW (330°) 16° 998 m
mixed 2.67 km WNW (283°) 29° 1.14 km

Structural fabric of the window

Structures counted19 Trace length inside15,157 m Fault density0.95 km per km² Dominant strike39° · NE–SW Concentration R0.83 (0 = no fabric, 1 = one trend) Rayleigh p< 0.001 Throw measured0–89.9 m (mean 36.9 m over 19 lines) Relief across traces37–181 m

The lines here are not randomly oriented (p = <0.001). There is a real preferred direction at 39°.

Sense of throw. The nearest scarp (L214) stands about 23.2 m lower on one flank once the regional slope is fitted out, so the downthrown side faces roughly NW (305°). The stored throw for that line is 52.1 m — if those two numbers disagree badly, the profile is being dragged by terrain the fit could not remove. This reads the profile's offset sign as increasing toward strike + 90°. Check it once against a scarp whose downthrown side you know on the ground before relying on it.

NESW

Petals weighted by trace length inside the window, 10° bins, mirrored — a line has no head or tail. The dashed line is the length-weighted mean strike.

Crossings and nodes

Places inside the window where two different structures actually cross, measured from the traces themselves.

#DistanceBearingAngle they meet atThe two lines
1 1004 m N (359°) 19° L214 × L306
2 1636 m WNW (288°) 36° L8 × L18
3 1658 m W (275°) 46° L9 × L18
4 1768 m NNW (330°) 24° L205 × L27
5 2139 m NW (307°) 20° L5 × L57
6 2141 m NW (305°) 16° L19 × L57

Pairs meeting at less than 12° are dropped as near-parallel. Crossings within 40 m of each other are merged. A high crossing angle between two different families is the geometry worth walking to; a low one usually means one broken line, not two structures.

Ranked nodes from the intersection pass

DistanceBearingStructuresAngleOpening potentialWhy
in 1.01 km N 2 19° low · crossing same-family crossing (19 deg)
in 1.63 km WNW 2 36° med · crossing cross-family crossing (36 deg)
in 1.66 km W 2 46° med · crossing wide cross-family crossing (46 deg), only 2 structures
in 1.78 km NNW 2 24° low · crossing same-family crossing (23 deg)
in 2.14 km NW 3 20° low · crossing same-family crossing (20 deg)
in 2.24 km NW 2 5° low · crossing grazing crossing (5 deg), little dilation
out 2.13 km W 4 44° low · crossing same-family crossing (44 deg)
out 2.54 km N 2 13° med · bend single-fault bend, kink 13 deg (releasing vs restraining unresolved)
out 2.63 km NNW 3 30° med · crossing cross-family crossing (30 deg)
out 2.66 km WNW 3 22° low · crossing same-family crossing (22 deg)

Node favourability is an untested hypothesis layer at Geita — the mines calibration found no enrichment for map-view crossings there, where gold sits on sheared BIF contacts instead. Read these as geometry, not as a score you can trust yet.

Where to work next

Every target below is a place you can stand, with the work to do when you get there. The ordering ranks structure — how strongly the break is expressed, how well the cross-section pass verified it, and how two of them meet. Nothing in this pipeline measures metal.

#TargetPriorityFrom the pointBearing CoordinatesUTM Arc 1960
T1 Trench across L214 (scarp) first pass 678 m NNW (334°) -2.86861, 32.21639 36M 412 828E 9 683 203N
T2 Trench across L306 (scarp) first pass 826 m NW (325°) -2.86806, 32.21472 36M 412 642E 9 683 264N
T3 Trench across L9 (scarp) first pass 1204 m WNW (291°) -2.87028, 32.20889 36M 411 994E 9 683 018N
T4 Trench across L241 (scarp) second pass 764 m WNW (288°) -2.87194, 32.21250 36M 412 396E 9 682 834N
T5 Trench across L222 (scarp) second pass 1377 m NNW (344°) -2.86222, 32.21556 36M 412 735E 9 683 909N
T6 Crossing of two structures second pass 1658 m W (275°) -2.87291, 32.20416 36M 411 469E 9 682 726N
T7 Crossing of two structures second pass 1004 m N (359°) -2.86504, 32.21885 36M 413 101E 9 683 598N
T8 Crossing of two structures if time allows 1768 m NNW (330°) -2.86019, 32.21119 36M 412 250E 9 684 133N
T9 Crossing of two structures if time allows 2139 m NW (307°) -2.86241, 32.20371 36M 411 418E 9 683 887N
T10 Crossing of two structures if time allows 2141 m NW (305°) -2.86298, 32.20326 36M 411 368E 9 683 824N
T11 Crossing of two structures if time allows 1636 m WNW (288°) -2.86956, 32.20503 36M 411 565E 9 683 097N
T12 Ranked node (crossing) if time allows 2244 m NW (314°) -2.86016, 32.20443 36M 411 498E 9 684 136N

T1 — Trench across L214 (scarp) · 678 m NNW of the point · first pass

Stand here-2.86861, 32.21639 · 2°52'07.0"S 32°12'59.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 412 828E 9 683 203N Trench line80 m on 125° — from -2.86882, 32.21669 to -2.86841, 32.21609

Why here

What to do

T2 — Trench across L306 (scarp) · 826 m NW of the point · first pass

Stand here-2.86806, 32.21472 · 2°52'05.0"S 32°12'53.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 412 642E 9 683 264N Trench line80 m on 144° — from -2.86835, 32.21493 to -2.86776, 32.21451

Why here

What to do

T3 — Trench across L9 (scarp) · 1204 m WNW of the point · first pass

Stand here-2.87028, 32.20889 · 2°52'13.0"S 32°12'32.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 994E 9 683 018N Trench line80 m on 151° — from -2.87059, 32.20906 to -2.86996, 32.20871

Why here

What to do

T4 — Trench across L241 (scarp) · 764 m WNW of the point · second pass

Stand here-2.87194, 32.21250 · 2°52'19.0"S 32°12'45.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 412 396E 9 682 834N Trench line80 m on 152° — from -2.87226, 32.21267 to -2.87162, 32.21233

Why here

What to do

T5 — Trench across L222 (scarp) · 1377 m NNW of the point · second pass

Stand here-2.86222, 32.21556 · 2°51'44.0"S 32°12'56.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 412 735E 9 683 909N Trench line80 m on 143° — from -2.86251, 32.21577 to -2.86193, 32.21534

Why here

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T6 — Crossing of two structures · 1658 m W of the point · second pass

Stand here-2.87291, 32.20416 · 2°52'22.5"S 32°12'15.0"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 469E 9 682 726N Trench line80 m on 151° — from -2.87323, 32.20434 to -2.87260, 32.20399

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T7 — Crossing of two structures · 1004 m N of the point · second pass

Stand here-2.86504, 32.21885 · 2°51'54.1"S 32°13'07.9"E UTM Arc 196036M 413 101E 9 683 598N Trench line80 m on 125° — from -2.86524, 32.21915 to -2.86483, 32.21856

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T8 — Crossing of two structures · 1768 m NNW of the point · if time allows

Stand here-2.86019, 32.21119 · 2°51'36.7"S 32°12'40.3"E UTM Arc 196036M 412 250E 9 684 133N Trench line80 m on 135° — from -2.86045, 32.21145 to -2.85994, 32.21094

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T9 — Crossing of two structures · 2139 m NW of the point · if time allows

Stand here-2.86241, 32.20371 · 2°51'44.7"S 32°12'13.3"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 418E 9 683 887N Trench line80 m on 108° — from -2.86252, 32.20405 to -2.86230, 32.20337

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T10 — Crossing of two structures · 2141 m NW of the point · if time allows

Stand here-2.86298, 32.20326 · 2°51'46.7"S 32°12'11.8"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 368E 9 683 824N Trench line80 m on 112° — from -2.86312, 32.20360 to -2.86285, 32.20293

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T11 — Crossing of two structures · 1636 m WNW of the point · if time allows

Stand here-2.86956, 32.20503 · 2°52'10.4"S 32°12'18.1"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 565E 9 683 097N Trench line30 m on 105° — from -2.86959, 32.20516 to -2.86952, 32.20490

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T12 — Ranked node (crossing) · 2244 m NW of the point · if time allows

Stand here-2.86016, 32.20443 · 2°51'36.6"S 32°12'15.9"E UTM Arc 196036M 411 498E 9 684 136N

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Soil sampling lines

Cut across the grain, not along it: these run 129°, square to the 39° fabric, which is statistically real here. A sample line that follows a fault instead of crossing it is the one orientation guaranteed to teach you nothing.

LineBearingLengthStartEnd
Line 1 129° 1600 m -2.88149, 32.22233 -2.87234, 32.21118
Line 2 129° 1600 m -2.87868, 32.22461 -2.86954, 32.21345
Line 3 129° 1600 m -2.87588, 32.22688 -2.86673, 32.21573

Sample every 25 m along each line, at a consistent depth below the organic layer — a shallow sample and a deep one on the same line are two different datasets. Termite mounds are a good alternative sample medium in this terrain where soil cover is thick. Line spacing here is 400 m; tighten it to 50 m once a line gives you something. The lines run past the edge of the window on the plan — that is deliberate, since an anomaly does not stop where this report does.

A sensible order of work

1 — Walk it first (a day or two, no cost). Go to T1 and T2 and look at the ground. Is there outcrop? Is there quartz? Is there old working? Does the break the satellite drew actually exist where it says? Take rock chips from any outcrop and photograph everything with the GPS on. Half of these targets will fail this step, and that is the cheapest failure available to you.

2 — Sample before you dig. Soil or termite-mound sampling across the lines above costs a fraction of a trench and tells you where along a 1088 m structure to put one. Trenching a fault at a random point along its length is the most common way to waste money in early exploration.

3 — Trench where the geochemistry and the structure agree. Not where either one alone looks good. Use the trench lines above: square across strike, long enough to catch both walls of the damage zone, channel-sampled continuously so you get a grade over a width and not a grab sample.

4 — Only then think about drilling. A trench that returns nothing is worth knowing; a hole that returns nothing costs twenty times as much to learn the same thing.

Before any of it: confirm the licence position. These coordinates carry no tenure information — a target inside someone else's PML or PL is not your target.

Safety when trenching

How the ordering was made. A target's score combines the cross-section verdict (a scarp counts fully, a valley 0.85, a ridge 0.55, a flat line zero), how far the terrain agrees along the line, the measured throw or relief, and how much trace runs through the window. Crossings add a term for the angle the two lines meet at, because a high angle means two real families rather than one broken line, plus up to six points for being close enough to walk to. The tiers are positions in that queue, not thresholds — the score has no calibrated meaning in absolute terms, and the top target in a poor window is still a poor target. The only part of this platform tested against real deposits is lineament proximity — 74% of fault-following Tanzanian occurrences lie within 3 km of a DEM lineament, roughly 12× the rate of random ground at Geita. Node favourability was tested at the same place and showed no signal, because gold there sits on sheared BIF contacts rather than map-view crossings. Read the crossing targets accordingly.

How to read the numbers

Every field in the structure tables is tagged with where it came from, because the four kinds carry different weight and should not be read as though they were the same.

measuredRead directly off the elevation model. The rawest thing here. derivedArithmetic on measured quantities. No judgement in it, but it inherits every error underneath it. modelledAssigned by a classifier. A hypothesis about the ground, not an observation of it — argue with these first. inferredReasoned from the above, with the reasoning stated wherever it appears.
FieldKindWhat it is
Line rank derived The identifier for this trace within its cell. It has no geological meaning and does not rank anything.
Strike (°) measured The compass direction the break runs, quoted 0–180°. This is the best-constrained number in the report; strike is reliable even where everything else is marginal.
Total trace length (m) measured The full length of the trace end to end, including the part outside this window.
Fragments merged derived How many separate fragments the pipeline joined into this one trace. More than one means the line is a reconstruction, so treat its ends with care.
Cross-section verdict derived What the ground actually does across the line: steps down one side (scarp), is eroded out along it (valley), stands up along it (ridge), or does nothing (flat). Read from the measured profile, not from the image.
Relief (m) measured Total height difference across the sampled ground, lowest to highest. It includes the regional slope, so a large relief on a hillside does not by itself mean a large structure.
Throw (m) measured Vertical separation between the two flanks once the regional slope has been fitted out. Zero means the ground sits at the same height either side — the feature is a shape in the land, not an offset of it.
Expression (m) derived How strongly the break shows in the ground: the larger of relief and throw. A convenience number for ranking, not a physical quantity.
Agreement along line derived The share of cross-sections along the line that agreed on the same verdict. Low values mean the line changes character along its length, which usually means it is more than one thing.
Sections measured measured How many cross-sections were cut along the line to reach the verdict.
Notch depth (m) measured Depth of the notch the line sits in, where there is one.
Notch width (m) measured Width of that notch across strike. A wide, shallow notch is a valley; a narrow, deep one is a fracture.
Wall asymmetry measured Steepness of one flank divided by the other. 1.0 is symmetric. A strong asymmetry can point to the dip direction, but it can equally be the drainage, so it is a hint and not a measurement of dip.
V-shape index derived How V-shaped the profile across the line is, 0 to 1. A V is erosion cutting into a fracture.
U-shape index derived How U-shaped it is, 0 to 1. A U is a broader trough — often a softer unit rather than a single break.
Valley score modelled The classifier's confidence that the profile is a valley, 0 to 1.
Ridge score modelled Its confidence that the profile is a ridge, 0 to 1.
Structural class modelled Where this line sits in a Riedel-style scheme — R, R′, P, Y or oblique — measured by angle against the regional trend fitted upstream in the lineament pass. It is an assignment by geometry alone. It is not a field observation of shear sense, and it should not be quoted as one without structural data from the ground.
Affinity modelled How well the line fits the class above, 0 to 1. Low values mean the class is close to arbitrary.
Angle to regional trend (°) derived The angle between this line and the regional trend the classifier uses.
Near a class boundary modelled The line sits close to the angular boundary between two classes, so the class above could reasonably have been the other one.

Two things this report does not carry. There is no dip — strike is measured, but the angle a structure leans at is not something a plan-view DEM can see, so a trench length here is a working figure and should be widened if the break turns out to be shallow-dipping. And there is no tenure: nothing in this pipeline knows who holds the ground.

Where these numbers came from

CellLayerFileAnalysed
AOI_E0320_S030 dem.sections AOI_E0320_S030_sections.geojson 8 Sep 2026

Lineaments come from NASADEM elevation: multi-azimuth hillshade, Canny edge detection and a probabilistic Hough transform. Cross-section verdicts come from lineament_sections.py, which samples the real ground across each line and asks whether it steps, notches, rises or stays flat.

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What this report is. Every line here is a break in the shape of the land, read from satellite elevation data. It is structure, never gold. Faults are where gold-bearing fluid can travel and collect, which is why the ground near one is worth more attention than the ground away from one — but a fault with no gold in it is the ordinary case, not the exception.

Accuracy. Distances are straight-line, not walking distance. Trace positions carry the DEM's own positional error — roughly a pixel, about 30 m — so treat anything under 50 m as "at the point". Strike is reliable; the sense of throw is inferred, not surveyed.

GoldRadar · AOI_E0320_S030 · generated 2026-11-05 03:54 EAT · -2.87411, 32.21903