Digital Geosciences and 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 (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 12300
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractal/multifractal; geo-information extraction and integration
Interests: mathematical geosciences; geochemical exploration in covered area in support of mineral exploration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To narrow targeted areas and increase the possibility of success in the discovery and exploitation of mineral resources, specific exploration strategies from reconnaissance to ongoing exploration are usually planned and implemented systematically. Exploratory data sets, widely derived from activities such as remote sensing, geological mapping, geophysical and geochemical exploration, and drilling can be analyzed to detect mineralization-related anomalies and infer the possible existence and extent of mineralization. The current era of big data means that exploiting the advantages of GISs in terms of spatial data management and spatial data mining has never been more important to the discovery of new indicators for the recognition of mineralization and related issues. It is imperative that we open our minds and initiate interdisciplinary research regarding new ideas, new methods, and new discoveries.
We are currently organizing a Special Issue of Minerals (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals) which may be of interest to you. As the Guest Editors, we cordially invite you and your colleagues to contribute a research article or review paper to the following Special Issue:
This Special Issue aims to contribute new applications of quantitative methodology to investigate any associated clues or indicators benefiting all stages of mineral exploration, from reconnaissance to ongoing exploration.
Dr. Wenlei Wang
Prof. Dr. Shuyun Xie
Dr. Zhijun Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geochemical exploration
- covered area
- Nonlinear Earth system
- singularity
- big data
- data mining
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