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Glasby, G. P. "Marine mineral exploration." Marine Geology 83, no. 1-4 (September 1988): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(88)90066-7.

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Roonwal, G. S. "Marine mineral exploration." Ore Geology Reviews 3, no. 4 (August 1988): 397–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-1368(88)90033-9.

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Cadigan, R. A. "Marine Mineral Exploration." Ore Geology Reviews 4, no. 4 (August 1989): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-1368(89)90011-5.

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Groves, D. I. "Conceptual mineral exploration." Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55, no. 1 (February 2008): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090701673310.

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Spiess, Fren N. "Marine Mineral Exploration." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 69, no. 5 (1988): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/88eo00052.

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Cronan, D. S. "Marine mineral exploration." Journal of Geochemical Exploration 30, no. 1-3 (January 1988): 331–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0375-6742(88)90071-4.

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McClenaghan, M. Beth. "Indicator mineral methods in mineral exploration." Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 5, no. 3 (July 19, 2005): 233–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1467-7873/03-066.

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McDonald, Iain. "Mineral exploration through cover." Applied Earth Science 116, no. 1 (March 2007): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174327507x167046.

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Drymonitis, Dimitris. "Defining Mineral Exploration Works." Procedia Earth and Planetary Science 15 (2015): 742–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2015.08.119.

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Laznicka, Peter. "Introduction to mineral exploration." Ore Geology Reviews 11, no. 4 (October 1996): 251–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-1368(96)82525-x.

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Simmons, Nigel. "Qualitative systems applied to mineral exploration." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328392.

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Cramer, Raymond Nicholas. "Microcomputer aided learning in mineral exploration." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47390.

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Laletsang, Kebabonye. "Seismic exploration for metallic mineral deposits /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2001. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,27435.

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Wilson-Bahun, Tetevi. "An exploration-adjusted mineral occurrence model." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185146.

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A mathematical model describing the probability for n mines or prospects occurring within an elementary unit (cell) of an area has been referred to as an occurrence model. Estimation of parameters of occurrence models has been plagued by the effect of area delineation on the parameters. Moreover, incompleteness of exploration creates a bias in parameter estimates. This study proposes that when the model is to describe the probability for occurrence of mines or prospects, the appropriate area is a metallogenic unit of mining district scale. Accordingly, this study examined the delineation of area by successive expansion of a polygon seeking that size of area which provides the best fitting of a truncated and effort-adjusted exponential model. However, estimation of occurrence model parameters was found to be sensitive to location of polygon on the cluster. Consequently, this approach was abandoned in favour of geologically-defined metallogenic units referred to as Intrinsic Samples. Truncated and effort adjusted occurrence models were fitted to Intrinsic Samples which included the mining districts of the Walker Lake Quadrangle of Nevada and California. The estimated model for each metallogenic unit is used to estimate the gold-silver metal endowment of the unit. This represents a departure from previous studies, e.g. Allais, in which a single parameter estimate from a control area is used to estimate the mineral endowment in all parts of a large study area. Furthermore, the study addresses the issue of economic truncation of occurrence data used in exponential model construction. Because a metallogenic unit is less than completely explored, estimated parameters based on observed occurrences provide a biased description of the number of occurrences present (i.e. endowment). The transition from sample to endowment (population) parameter is achieved by parameterizing the exponential model for a metallogenic unit on exploration effort deployed in a unit area. Thus, fitting the model to observed data and evaluating it at infinite effort yields the model for gold and silver metal endowment in a metallogenic unit.

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Pachas, Pérez Diego. "Mining Exploration in Peru: A Brief Scope on the Main Authorizations for the Development of an Exploration Project in Peru." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118585.

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The purpose of the author in this article is to outline the main licenses regarding mineral exploration and publicize the usual paperwork and contingencies obtaining these permits.It also presents alternatives to traditional procedures, which are more useful in practice to expedite to start of mining exploration activities in Peru.
El fin del autor en este artículo es hacer un esbozo de los principales títulos habilitantes para lo referente a la exploración minera, así como dar a conocer los trámites y usuales contingencias que acarrean la obtención de estos permisos. Asimismo, se presentanalternativas a las tradicionales autorizaciones, que son más útiles en la práctica para agilizarel comienzo de actividades de exploración minera en el Perú.

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Sykes, Michael P. "Some techniques for the enhancement of electromagnetic data for mineral exploration." Thesis, Curtin University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/922.

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The usefulness of electromagnetic (EM) methods for mineral exploration is severely restricted by the presence of a conductive overburden. Approximately 80% of the Australian continent is covered by regolith that contains some of the most conductive clays on Earth. As a result, frequency-domain methods are only effective for near surface investigations and time-domain methods, that are capable of deeper exploration, require the measurement of very small, late-time signals. Both methods suffer from the fact that the currents in the conductive Earth layers contribute a large portion of the total measured signal that may mask the signal from a conductive target. In the search for non-layered structures, this form of geological noise is the greatest impediment to the success of EM surveys in conductive terrains. Over the years a range of data acquisition and processing techniques have been used in an effort to enhance the response of the non-layered target and thereby increase the likelihood of its detection.The combined use of a variety of survey configurations to assist exploration and interpretation is not new and is practiced regularly. The active nature of EM exploration means that the measured response is determined to a large degree by the way in which the Earth is energised. Geological structures produce different responses to different stimuli. In this work, two new methods of data combination are used to transform the measured data into a residual quantity that enhances the signature of non-layered geological structures. Based on the concept of data redundancy and tested using the results of numerical modelling, the new combinations greatly increase the signal to noise ratio for targets located in a conductive environment by reducing the layered Earth contribution. The data combinations have application to frequency-domain and time-domain EM surveys and simple interpretive rules can be applied to the residuals to extract geological parameters useful in exploration. The new methods make use of inductive loop sources and can therefore also be applied to airborne surveys.Airborne surveys present special difficulties due to the data acquisition procedures commonly used. Flight-line related artefacts such as herringbones detract from the appearance of maps and make boundary definition more difficult. A new procedure, based on the Radon transform, is used to remove herringbones from airborne EM maps and locate the conductive boundaries correctly, making interpretation more reliable and easier. In addition, selective filtering of the Radon transform data enables the enhancement or attenuation of specific linear features shown in the map to emphasise features of interest. Comparison of the Radon transform procedures with the more conventional Fourier transform methods shaves the Radon transform processing to be more versatile and less prone to distortion of the features in a map.The procedures developed in this work are applied to field data with good results.

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Blanco, Huguette. "Efficient contracting in mineral exploration in Canada." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238977.

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El-Fouly, Adel Ahmed Mahmoud. "Information extraction and integration in mineral exploration." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186085.

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Geologic information extraction and integration are the main goals of this study. Tools are designed to aid in exploration for common mineral deposits by intelligently and efficiently processing spatial geological data. Gabor filters, comprising Gaussian-attenuated sinusoidal weight vectors, are used for textural discrimination. A highly non-linear logic operator was designed for "valley", "ridge", edge, and intersection extraction from multispectral images to cover most of the possible local lineament types. A zonation detector (a non-linear logic operator) indicates the presence or absence of lithologic zonation, the number and the types of zones using a series of automatically expanding moving windows. The ultimate window size represents the zonation size. Two different types of raster-based expert systems help optimize pixel-by-pixel knowledge extraction and representation over the spatial information and throughout the different raster feature layers. First a 2-D expert system is used for classification, ranking, recognition and searching for important pattern associations in the feature space. Second, a multilayer adaptive raster-based expert system allows the processing of multiple geologic features, and operates over each pattern in the feature layers. The fuzzy integral method of evidence fusion is used to integrate information from a variety of mineral exploration sources. This nonlinearly combines objective mineral occurrence evidence, in the form of a fuzzy membership function, with subjective evaluation of the worth of the sources with respect to the decision. An application of these methods to the Tombstone mineral district in southern Arizona demonstrates its ability to pick out circular features from TM imagery, Gabor transforms and lineament patterns, as well as identify favorable zonation for new mineral occurrence. The final product at this time is a probability map to guide the exploration geologist.

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Heuvel, Lisa L. "English Mineral Exploration in the New World." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626476.

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Liedholm, Johnson Eva. "Mineral Rights : Legal Systems Governing Exploration and Exploitation." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Fastighetsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-12044.

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The objective of this thesis is to examine the legal procedures and systems concerning granting or possessing mineral rights, and how such rights may be exercised, particularly given the diametric interests of land use, ownership and land tenure. The study, comparative in its nature, aims at highlighting the similarities and differences between the countries and states of comparison, and thereby identify interesting solutions of issues relating to the granting and exercising of mineral rights. The study examines mineral rights and different legal systems regulating mineral exploration and exploitation. The focus is on mining and mineral legislation and its application, including the exercise of mineral rights. The systems chosen are those of Sweden, Finland and the states of Ontario and Western Australia. The main result is generated by the comparison dealing with the application, granting and possession of mineral rights related to the development of a mine. Several processes are thereby identified. In addition, the content and extent of the different rights and obligations related to exploration and exploitation activities are examined, as well as land areas open or closed for the exercise of these rights. The legal processes concerning granting mineral rights are in fact complex as evidenced by this work, particularly when land-use and environmental legislation is taken into account. The perception of a good balance in legislation between diametric interests of land use, ownership and land tenure is heavily linked to the view of sustainable development. The difficulties of achieving this are confirmed by the countries and states compared. The continuous change of mineral legislation during the course of this study is an indication of the complexity of the topic.
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Books on the topic "Mineral exploration"

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H, Kunzendorf, ed. Marine mineral exploration. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1986.

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M, Evans Anthony, and Barrett William L, eds. Introduction to mineral exploration. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1995.

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Roonwal, G. S. Mineral Exploration: Practical Application. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5604-8.

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National, Seminar on Strategy for Exploration of Mineral Ore and Oil Deposits in the Present Context of Global Economic Scenario: a. Thrust on New Horizon (2006 Department of Earth Sciences Annamalai University). Mineral exploration: Recent strategies. New Delhi: New India Pub. Agency, 2007.

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British, Columbia Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources. Guidelines for mineral exploration. Victoria, B.C: Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources, 1992.

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J, Moon Charles, Whateley M. K. G, and Evans Anthony M, eds. Introduction to mineral exploration. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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Uganda. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project. New potential targets for mineral exploration. Kampala: Geological Survey and Mines Department, 2012.

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1938-, Zantop H., and Eggert Roderick G, eds. International mineral economics: Mineral exploration, mine valuation, mineral markets, international mineral policies. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.

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Geoffroy, J. G. De. Designing optimalstrategies for mineral exploration. New York: Plenum, 1985.

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Umpherson, Don. Bush safety in mineral exploration. [North Bay, Ont.]: Mines Accident Prevention Association Ontario, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mineral exploration"

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Gasparrini, Claudia. "Mineral Exploration." In Gold and Other Precious Metals, 287–89. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77184-2_13.

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Gocht, Werner R., Half Zantop, and Roderick G. Eggert. "Exploration Methods." In International Mineral Economics, 22–56. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73321-5_3.

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De Geoffroy, J. G., and T. K. Wignall. "Optimizing Mineral Exploration." In Designing Optimal Strategies for Mineral Exploration, 1–15. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1230-7_1.

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Bustillo Revuelta, Manuel. "Mineral Resource Exploration." In Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, 121–222. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58760-8_3.

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Marjoribanks, Roger W. "Mineral Exploration Drilling." In Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining, 39–69. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5822-0_4.

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Roonwal, G. S. "Survey in Exploration." In Mineral Exploration: Practical Application, 155–75. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5604-8_5.

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Roonwal, G. S. "Mineral Resources and Exploration." In Mineral Exploration: Practical Application, 1–15. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5604-8_1.

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Müller, Daniel, and David I. Groves. "Implications for Mineral Exploration." In Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization, 159–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00920-8_9.

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Müller, Daniel, and David I. Groves. "Implications for Mineral Exploration." In Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization, 181–84. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59665-0_9.

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Golani, Prakash R. "Challenges in Mineral Exploration." In Assessment of Ore Deposit Settings, Structures and Proximity Indicator Minerals in Geological Exploration, 353–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65125-1_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Mineral exploration"

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Decrée, S., M. J. Batista, D. De Oliveira, K. Al-Bassam, N. Coint, and H. Bauert. "Assessment of Critical raw Materials Content in Phosphate Mineralizations: an Objective of the Frame Project." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089005.

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Bouziat, A., S. Desroziers, M. Feraille, J. Lecomte, R. Divies, and F. Cokelaer. "Assisted processing of geological data with Deep Learning technologies: levers to optimize mineral exploration workflows?" In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089014.

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Ruiz-Coupeau, S., M. Keßelring, B. Jürgens, and V. Herrero-Solana. "Technology watch of airborne mineral exploration methods." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089034.

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Cuesta-lopez, S., M. Alonso-Fernandez, J. M. Menendez-Aguado, and C. Ricci. "Raman Spectroscopy as a tool for identification and valorisation assessment of critical raw materials: Graphite case." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089028.

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Bostani, A. "BEM, Broadband Electromagnetic Smart Method, phenomenology, theory, applications." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089025.

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Bazargan, M., P. Broumand, H. B. Motra, B. Almqvist, C. Hieronymus, and S. Piazolo. "A Numerical Toolbox to Calculate the Seismic Properties of Micro Sized Isotropic and Anisotropic Minerals." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089023.

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Apostolopoulos, G., N. Martakis, C. Tzimopoulos, K. Polychronopoulou, C. Orfanos, and K. Leontarakis. "Exploration of the Gerolekas bauxite mining site using passive geophysical methods." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089008.

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Sadeghi, M., G. Bertrand, D. P. S. De Olivieira, N. Arvanitidis, S. Decrée, H. Gautneb, E. Gloaguen, et al. "Prospectivity mapping of critical raw material at the continental scale- a part of the FRAME project." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089003.

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Archer, T. "Recent developments in airborne geophysics, with particular reference to European and EU-funded projects." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089030.

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Prikhodko, A., A. Bagrianski, and P. Kuzmin. "Exploration capabilities of airborne broadband natural electromagnetic fields measurements." In Mineral Exploration Symposium. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202089017.

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Reports on the topic "Mineral exploration"

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Dunn, C. E. Biogeochemistry in Mineral Exploration. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/132395.

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Werdon, M. B. Alaska's mineral industry 2017: Mines, development, and exploration (presentation): Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia Mineral Exploration Roundup, January 22, 2018. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, February 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/29851.

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Werdon, M. B. Alaska's mineral industry 2016: Mining, exploration and discoveries (presentation): Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia Mineral Exploration Roundup, January 23-26, 2017. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, January 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/29711.

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McClenaghan, M. B., A. Plouffe, and D. Layton-Matthews. Application of indicator mineral methods to mineral exploration. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/293858.

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Coker, W. B. Overburden Geochemistry in Mineral Exploration. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/132391.

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Lougheed, H. D., M. B. McClenaghan, D. Layton-Matthews, and M. I. Leybourne. Indicator minerals in fine-fraction till heavy-mineral concentrates determined by automated mineral analysis: examples from two Canadian polymetallic base-metal deposits. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/328011.

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Exploration under glacial sediment cover is a necessary part of modern mineral exploration in Canada. Traditional indicator methods use visual examination to identify mineral grains in the 250 to 2000 µm fraction of till heavy-mineral concentrates (HMC). This study tests automated mineralogical methods using scanning electron microscopy to identify indicator minerals in the fine (&lt;250 µm) HMC fraction of till. Automated mineralogy of polished grains from the fine HMC enables rapid data collection (10 000-300 000 grains/sample). Samples collected near two deposits were used to test this method: four from the upper-amphibolite facies Izok Lake volcanogenic massive-sulfide deposit, Nunavut, and five from the Sisson granite-hosted W-Mo deposit, New Brunswick. The less than 250 µm HMC fraction of till samples collected down ice of each deposit contain ore and alteration minerals typical of their deposit type. Sulfide minerals occur mainly as inclusions in oxidation-resistant minerals, including minerals previously identified in each deposit's metamorphic alteration halo, and are found to occur farther down ice than the grains identified visually in the greater than 250 µm HMC fraction. This project's workflow expands the detectable footprint for certain indicator minerals and enhances the information that can be collected from till samples.

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McClenaghan, M. B., W. A. Spirito, S. J. A. Day, M. W. McCurdy, and R. J. McNeil. Overview of GEM surficial geochemistry and indicator mineral surveys and case studies in northern Canada. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/330473.

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As part of the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program between 2008 and 2020, the Geological Survey of Canada carried out reconnaissance-scale to deposit-scale geochemical and indicator mineral surveys and case studies across northern Canada. In these studies, geochemical methods were used to determine the concentrations of 65 elements in lake sediment, stream sediment, stream water, lake water and till samples across approximately 1,000,000 km2 of northern Canada. State-of the-art indicator methods were used to examine the indicator mineral signatures in regional-scale stream sediment and till surveys. This research identified areas with anomalous concentrations of elements and/or indicator minerals that are indicative of bedrock mineralization, developed new mineral exploration models and protocols, trained a new generation of geoscientists and transferred knowledge to northern communities. The most immediate impact of the GEM surveys has been the stimulation of mineral exploration in Canada's north, focussing exploration efforts into high mineral potential areas identified in GEM regional-scale surveys. Regional- and deposit-scale studies demonstrated how transport data (till geochemistry, indicator minerals) and ice flow indicator data can be used together to identify and understand complex ice flow and glacial transport. Detailed studies at the Izok Lake, Pine Point, Strange Lake, Amaruq deposits and across the Great Bear Magmatic Zone demonstrate new suites of indicator minerals that can now be used in future reconnaissance- and regional-scale stream sediment and till surveys across Canada.

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Szumigala, D. J. Alaska's mineral industry 2011 - exploration activity. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, November 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/24584.

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Dyck, A. V., and J. G. Hayles. Drillhole EM measurements in mineral exploration. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/123603.

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Freeman, L. K. Alaska's mineral resources 2015: Ready for a rebound (presentation): Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia Mineral Exploration Roundup, January 25 - 28, 2016. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/29598.

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