Geophysical Signatures of Mineral Deposits in Tropical and Subtropical Settings

Dear Colleagues,

Obtaining mineral deposits in tropical regions of our planet is difficult due to the intense action of climatic processes, which disintegrate rocks and produce thick soils. The discovery of new mineral deposits in these areas in the last decade has shown the necessity of using geophysical methodologies in the mineral exploration stages. Advances in geophysical and petrophysical data acquisition systems have led them to become faster and more efficient, which has enabled the recording of physical properties and anomalies with high resolution and excellent quality, improving the 2D and 3D images of mineralized geological bodies. The correlation of geophysical results with multipoint data analysis allows for a complexity determination of mineral deposit facies. This Special Issue invites the submission of articles that present original scientific research related to geophysical results or mineral deposits that occur in tropical regions.

This Special Issue focuses on the following topics:

1) The presentation of geophysical responses of mineral deposits with thick weathered and oxidized zones;
2) Geophysical footprints of supergenic mineral deposits;
3) The application of new geophysical techniques in mineral exploration.

Dr. Welitom Rodrigues Borges
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Henrique Leão-Santos
Guest Editors

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