Yosemite Sam is not what mineral prospectors look like anymore, but if you were to ask a random person in any country in the developed world what a mineral prospector did or looked like, you'd likely get a cartoonish answer. The field of mineral prospecting is increasingly embracing newer technologies and Mick Shmazian is one of the veterans of the industry calling for the embracing of the newest technologies. Mick Shmazian has more than twenty years of experience and has worked on four continents, but he knows that the future of mineral prospecting will lean heavily upon utilizing cutting edge technology.