Yes
> The more mana you pump in, the higher % chance of locating a region which has 
> one (or more) arifacts in it.  You still have to send someone there to explore 
> it to find it, of course.
> 
Yes
> But hey, you wanted ways for Mages to make money - locating and selling 
> (warlike) artifacts is as good as any.
> 
Yes! Although as artifacts will probably be rarer and more 'special' than 
gates, perhaps the spell should be less precise than 'locate gate' is.
More a sort of 'a great distance away', 'some distance away' 'nearby'
kind of locator.
Chris
-- Chris Yearsley cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk > John > >