Development of Geoelectrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Mineral Exploration
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 December 2023) | Viewed by 18915
Special Issue Editors
Interests: critical zone; hydrogeophysics; volcanology; near-surface geophysics; biogeophysics
Interests: hydrogeology; hydrogeophysics; near surface geophysics; environmental geophysics; petrophysics
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Dear Colleagues,
The goal of mineral exploration is the discovery of new deposits of economic value with the purpose of extracting them to feed the needs of industry. Geophysics describes a set of non-intrusive techniques useable to image the subsurface and extract their physical properties. It is used in mineral exploration to reduce risk associated with geochemical and geological data and drilling. In the last several decades, a great deal of progress has been made in the development and use of geoelectrical and electromagnetic geophysical methods in mineral exploration—especially regarding the exploration of targets located the first kilometer below the ground surface. In addition to electrical conductivity, induced polarization is a very sensitive technique that can be used to localize and decipher minerals in the subsurface of the Earth. This Special Issue targets contributions from laboratory to field measurements, numerical forward and inverse modeling, as well as petrophysical models able to connect the properties of minerals to the geophysical properties of interest. Our goal is to provide an updated view of the state-of-the-art in terms of geoelectrical and electromagnetic methods applied to mineral exploration. This Special Issue is also open to a variety of methods, including magneto-resistivity, magneto-induced polarization as well as seismoelectric and electroseismic effects, just to cite a few.
Dr. André Revil
Dr. Damien Jougnot
Dr. Jacques Deparis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- induced polarization
- mineral exploration
- electrical conductivity
- petrophysics
- inverse modeling
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