Geology

Fault-related displacements present major technical problems in mining geology. One single faulting event may break apart an otherwise contiguous body ...Read more

Quality control in the environmental, geological, and geochemical surveys is dependent upon the accuracy of chemical analyses. Analysts collect duplicate ...Read more

The presence of systematic lab bias leads to a continuous offset between observed analytical results and actual grades; consequently, there ...Read more

The identification of types of gold deposits is economically relevant for many reasons. There are two main types of gold ...Read more

Subsurface characterization in structurally complex mining environments requires the integration of heterogeneous geoscientific datasets. Mineral exploration and mine development routinely ...Read more

The formulation of credible geotechnical models is based on very accurate characterization of sites, which is achieved through diamond drill ...Read more

pXRF is defined as the type of analysis method which is non-destructive and applied to determine the chemical composition of ...Read more

The largest sources of copper, molybdenum, and rhenium are porphyry copper deposits. Due to rapid depletion of outcropping resources, exploration ...Read more

Shear-hosted gold deposits form a substantial portion of all global gold resources and usually occur in subduction-related tectonic environments (Groves ...Read more