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Based upon knowledge of where the commercial mining industry was currently exploring for natural resources in South America, gained through personal friendships over the years, Fred postulated that these industry exploration activities were 1500 miles off target.
He proceeded to contact a colleague and friend, Dr. Harold Lang, then Senior Research Geologist at JPL to inquire about academic and industrial activities relating to natural resource exploration using state-of-the-art LANDSAT image processing technology. Harold reported that he had just finished writing the Final Report and producing the "Fly About Movie" of the Wyoming-Utah Project - for which he was the Chief Consulting Geologist. As a result of this project, an American mining company opened a commercial natural resource mining project on the Wyoming-Utah Border. (Recently, a 28-carat diamond was recovered in this project).
Concurrently, Fred was briefed on another Project which had located the site of an ancient city-state in the Southern Arabian Desert: The Lost City of Ubar. This Project used the pre-eminent image processing software and talents of Drs. Robert Crippen and Ronald Blom. (See "The Lost City of Ubar"; National Geographic et al). It was at this point that Fred decided to organize a private venture to support further research and investigate the feasibility of exploring for natural resources in the newly identified target area in South America, utilizing the extraordinary talents of his colleagues at Caltech and JPL. This "adventure" was initially funded by Mrs. Dorothy Hammond, who became a General Partner with Fred in New World Enterprises (NWE) in 1993.
The initial (Phase I) investigation required:
The
identification and classification of the geological characteristics of
historical Kimberlite pipes and mines in South Africa. This effort also
included the spectrographic characterization of different samples of Kimberlite.
The identification and location of the
same geological systems in South America (if any) located in the ancient
contiguous areas identified in the new model of continent separation
posited by Fred.
The production of geological maps and
overlays which identify and locate the South African Kimberlite
congruities in South America resulting from the above investigation.
One of Harold's collaborators in the Wyoming-Utah Project, Dr. Ronald Marrs, Dean of the School of Geology at the University of Wyoming, recommended one of his graduate students, Mr. (now Dr.) Matt Petersen, who was hired to carry out this investigation under the direction of Harold, and Fred. This research was carried out over the academic breaks of 1994 and 1995.
The above research investigation resulted in the identification of a large regional area in Uruguay, which was within the 150-mile target originally postulated and identified by Fred, based on the new Continental Drift Model. Further refinements of the South African and South American data narrowed the regional Area of Interest (AOI) to a smaller regional area of interest approximately 20 Km. X 50 Km. well within the constraints of individual LANDSAT scenes.
In 1998, John Sununu, President of JHS Associates of Washington D.C., was briefed on the NWE South America Project by Ms. Lynn Johnson Esq., NWE's designated Counsel. Subsequently, he met with the Technical Team at the Athenaeum (Faculty Club) on the Caltech campus and was briefed by Fred and other Members of the Technical Team on the history and future plans for the Project. Gov. Sununu, who received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1966, clearly perceived the technical superiority of this Exploration Team and their approach to natural resources exploration over the current, industrial or commercial state-of-the-art. He accepted the invitation to join the Project and provided the necessary additional funding for the Phase II work effort. A new, Limited Partnership was formed with NWE and
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