The surface geochemistry techniques widely employed during the 1960’s to 1980’s are effective at discovering near-surface deposits, but are largely ineffective for exploring under deep cover or for deep extensions of known mineralisation in a near-mine environment. Instead, mineral explorers must focus their attention on rapidly aggregating and synthesising disparate data to build into holistic...

Most rare earth element deposits form from magmatic fluids, but there have also been discoveries of heavy rare earth element (HREE)– enriched hydrothermal xenotime deposits within sedimentary basins. As xenotime is notoriously insoluble, the question arises as to whether these lesser-known deposits form at typical basin temperatures or by influx of much hotter magmatic-hydrothermal fluids. The ...

ABSTRACT Most of the World's platinum-group element ore deposits occur as thin stratiform layers within layered intrusions. These generally contain disseminated base-metal sulfides or chromite. However, cryptic also without chromite in what are known low-S-high deposits. The origin these is not clearly understood. Luanga Complex hosts largest elements resource South America (i.e., 142 Mt at 1.2...

Gravity data inversion is one of the important steps in the interpretation of practical gravity data. The inversion result can be obtained by minimization of the Tikhonov objective function. The determination of an optimal regularization parameter is highly important in the gravity data inversion. In this work, an attempt was made to use the active constrain balancing (ACB) method to select the...