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Designing Optimal Strategies for Mineral Exploration

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Authors:
  1. J. G. Geoffroy

    1. Geostatistics and Mining Exploration, Eden, Australia

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  2. T. K. Wignall

    1. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Optimizing Mineral Exploration

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 1-15

  3. Evaluation of the Probability of Detection of Mineral Deposits

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 17-53

  4. Cost of Detection

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 55-74

  5. Optimizing Ore Detection

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 75-94

  6. Application of the Optimization Methodology to the Search for Six Types of Ore Deposits in North America

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 95-108

  7. Designing Optimized Field Programs for the Detection of Porphyry-Cu-Mo Deposits of the North American Cordillera Belt

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 109-140

  8. Optimized Search for Four Types of Contact Metasomatic Deposits of the North American Cordillera Belt

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 141-210

  9. Detection of Ni-Cu Ultramafic Deposits of the North American Shield by Optimized Geophysical Surveys and Drilling Programs

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 211-234

  10. Optimized Airborne and Ground Search for Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the North American Shield and Cordillera Belt

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 235-281

  11. Designing Optimized Field Programs for the Detection of Mississippi Valley-Type Pb-Zn Deposits of the North American Arctic Paleozoic Platform

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 283-303

  12. Detection of Vein-Gold Deposits of the North American Shield by Optimized Ground Programs

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 305-324

  13. Optimal Selection of Exploration Targets for Drill Testing

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 325-349

  14. Conclusion

    • J. G. De Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall
    Pages 351-352

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 353-364
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Few knowledgeable people would deny that the field of mineral exploration is facing some difficult times in the foreseeable future. Among the woes, we can cite a worldwide economic uneasiness reflected by sluggish and at times widely fluctuating metal prices, global financial uncertainties, and relentless pressures on costs despite a substantial slowing down of the rate of inflation. Furthermore, management is forced to tum to more sophisticated and expensive technologies and to look farther afield to more remote regions, as the better­ quality and more easily accessible ore deposits have now been revealed. This rather gloomy outlook should persuade explorationists to cast about for a new philosophy with which to guide mineral exploration through the challenging decades ahead. Once already, in the early 1960s, a call for change had been heard (Ref. 30 in Chapter 1), when it became obvious that the prospecting methods of yesteryear, so successful in the past, could not keep up with the rapidly growing demand for minerals of the postwar period. The answer, a massive introduction of sophisticated geophysical and geochemical technologies backed by new geo­ logical models, proved spectacularly successful throughout the 1960s and the 1970s. But for both economic and technological reasons, the brisk pace of the last two decades has considerably slowed down in the early 1980s, as if a new threshold has been reached.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Geostatistics and Mining Exploration, Eden, Australia

    J. G. Geoffroy

  • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA

    T. K. Wignall

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing Optimal Strategies for Mineral Exploration

  • Authors: J. G. Geoffroy, T. K. Wignall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1230-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-1232-1Published: 16 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-1230-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 380

  • Topics: Mineral Resources

  • Industry Sectors: Materials & Steel

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