Advances in Electrical Resistivity and Electromagnetic Imaging Methods of Mineral Deposits and Mining Wastes

Dear Colleagues,

Electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) has experienced significant advances in recent decades, concerning both data acquisition and data processing. Such improvements now allow us to exploit the full capabilities of the direct current geoelectric methods that may have been undervalued in the past. Multielectrode and multichannel systems, nonconventional surveying arrays, wireless systems, and efficient data inversion routines and software are already used extensively. ERI surveying is now capable of achieving higher-resolution and deeper images of the subsurface and constructing multidimensional 2D, 3D and 4D geological models at reasonable costs. That makes ERI very attractive for dealing with the actual and future challenges of mineral exploration, mine-water hydrology, and environmental characterization and monitoring of mining wastes and acid mine drainages.

Electromagnetic methods have also evolved significantly throughout this time, both in terms of sensing technology, hardware and data processing routines and software. Such recent advances have made these methods capable of responding to the challenging needs of the new mining industry and are devoted to achieving maximum efficiency in the exploitation and management of mining resources and their associated environmental side effects. Therefore, this Special Issue invites papers that focus on the recent advances of both ERI and EM for the mineral industry, including novelties in field acquisition, data processing, and data interpretation. Case studies that are particularly interesting are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Mario Zarroca
Dr. Roberto Rodríguez
Dr. Isaac Corral
Guest Editors

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