Ted Tyne’s best of Exploration geophysics

Fractal and Chaos in Exploration Geophysics

Studies of geological, mineralization and magnetite exploration geophysics in Senjedak-III area, the eastern anomaly of Sangan mine (Khorasan Razavi)

Sangan iron mine with skarn type genesis is located in NE Iran (Khorasan Razavi Province), in the Central Iran zone and NE of Lut Block sub-zone. The Senjedak-III prospect area is one of the six eastern anomalies of Sangan iron mine that encompasses eastern terminal of Khaf- Kashmar- Bardaskan volcano-plutonic belt. The geology of this area consists of a series of igneous (dykes and intrusive b...

The application of geophysics in South African coal mining and exploration

In areas where mining encroaches on a previously mined area, the historic mine plans do not always provide accurate information regarding the extent of historic and existing developments. Mining into old workings may result in hazards such as flooding of advancing workings. The development of infrastructure over old workings may also be undesirable, especially in areas that are susceptible to s...

Integration of Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Imagery for Mineral Exploration Applications

Today’s geologists have unprecedented access to multi-disciplinary geoscientific data and information. The problem in this “dataand informationrich” environment lies in implementing efficient approaches for verifying and integrating all available data and information. Effective integration leads directly to increased success potential and reduced exploration risk. Data verification is particula...

Adding Exploration to Greedy Best-First Search

While greedy best-first search (GBFS) is a popular algorithm for solving automated planning tasks, it can exhibit poor performance if the heuristic in use mistakenly identifies a region of the search space as promising. In such cases, the way the algorithm greedily trusts the heuristic can cause the algorithm to get stuck performing a lot of unnecessary work. In this report, we consider simple ...