Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications
A section of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Section Information
The Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications Section welcomes papers related to all aspects of mineral resources, including geological, geophysical, geochemical methods, and satellite imagery. We invite contributions on historical, technical, and practical aspects of exploration for mineral deposits. The papers should either focus on a novel methodology of mineral exploration or present the case studies where the established or innovative techniques were successfully used. In addition, we welcome contributions providing new insight into the foundations of geological, geophysical, and geochemical methods. The publications can be dedicated to field procedures and analytical techniques of geochemical exploration methods. Novel methods of gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric, and seismic prospecting and their integration, including mathematical aspects of data processing and interpretation, as well as studies on remote sensing and geographic information system in mineral exploration, are welcome. Airborne, ground, and borehole methods could be presented. We also encourage the submission of papers which report rock sample studies required for mineral exploration and propose new physical, chemical, and mineralogical techniques for identifying the mineral targets.
Keywords
- Airborne surveys
- Borehole methods
- Electromagnetic methods
- Geochemical surveys
- Geological surveys
- Geophysical surveys
- GIS
- Gravity methods
- Inversion
- Magnetic methods
- Mineral exploration
- Mineral resources
- Modeling
- Remote sensing
- Rock physics
- Radiometry
- Satellite imagery
- Seismic methods
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Joint Geophysical Data Inversion and Assessment for Mineral Accumulation (Deadline: 29 September 2023)
- Applications of Microscopy Image Processing and Machine Learning in Thin Sections (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- VNIR-TIR Spectroscopy: How Reflectance and Emissivity of Minerals, Rocks and Meteorites Can Help Planetary Exploration (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Gravity and Magnetic Methods in Mineral Exploration (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Application of Big Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Ore Deposits (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Application of Geophysical Data Interpretation in Geological and Mineral Potential Mapping (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- New Concept of Using Geophysical Data in Mineral Exploration, Depth Estimation and Structural Mapping (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Mineralogical, Geological and Geochemical Heterogeneities of Carbonate Reservoirs (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Digital Geosciences and Mineral Exploration (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Development of Geoelectrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Mineral Exploration (Deadline: 22 December 2023)
- Using Geophysical Inversion for Mineral Exploration: Methods and Applications (Deadline: 25 December 2023)
- Indicator Minerals, Vectoring and Fertility Tools for the Exploration of Porphyry Cu (Mo ± Au) Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Application of Emerging Technology in Mining Operations (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Petrology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Modeling and Mapping of Volcanic/Igneous Reservoirs and Analog Volcanoes (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) Using Multi-Source Datasets, Geo-Statistical Algorithms and Machine Learning Techniques (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Modeling and Inversion of Gravity, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Related to Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Recent Advances in Deep Ore Prospecting (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Deposition, Diagenesis, and Geochemistry of Carbonate Sequences (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in 3D Geological Modeling and Metallogenic Prediction (Deadline: 11 January 2024)
- Geochemical Exploration for Critical Mineral Resources (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Mining from Exploration to Reclamation, Volume II (Deadline: 18 April 2024)
- Geoelectricity and Electrical Methods in Mineral Exploration (Deadline: 22 April 2024)
- Mineral Exploration in the Glaciated Terrains: Advanced Geochemical and Mineralogical Techniques in the Analysis of Glacial Sediments and Processes (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Advances in Magnetic and Electromagnetic Techniques for Mineral Exploration: Enhancing Resource Discovery (Deadline: 30 May 2024)
- Space Resources (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Mineral Chemistry: Tool for Vectoring Towards Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 15 July 2024)
