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Probabilistic methods for mineral resource evaluation previously developed for land-based polymetallic massive sulfide deposits in the Abitibi Volcanic Belt of the Canadian Shield are applied to occurrences of hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise near 21°N. It is shown that volcanic and tectonic features on the ocean floor can be quantified for cells belonging to a grid and used to estimate probabilities of occurrence of the vents. The leverage and influence of multivariate cell observations on the estimated probabilities are also studied.
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Agterberg, F.P., Franklin, J.M. (1987). Estimation of the Probability of Occurrence of Polymetallic Massive Sulfide Deposits on the Ocean Floor. In: Teleki, P.G., Dobson, M.R., Moore, J.R., von Stackelberg, U. (eds) Marine Minerals. NATO ASI Series, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3803-8_31
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