Reliable quantitative mapping of minerals exposed on Vesta’s surface is crucial for understanding the crustal composition, petrologic evolution, and surface modification of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) parent body. However, mineral abundance estimates derived from visible–near infrared (VIS–NIR) reflectance spectra are complicated by multiple scattering, particle size, and nonlin...

The special issue entitled “Developments in Quantitative Assessment and Modeling of Mineral Resource Potential” is composed 17 papers that cover a diverse range approaches to mineral resource assessment, including mainly multivariate statistical analysis, fractal multifractal modeling, geostatistical machine learning, mathematical morphology 3D exploration. This introductory article first provi...

Tam Ky - Phuoc Son area has great potential for gold mineral with 98 occurrences, but the evaluation of entire gold-mineralization is still very limited, while this considered as a basis planning, exploration, and mining. The paper uses an Artificial Intelligence model which name Random Forest to build predictive modeling perspectivity map prospect study area. 12 influencing factors are selecte...

The mineral ore potential of many mountainous regions of the world, like the Kurdistan region of Iraq, remains unexplored. For logistical and sometimes political reasons, these areas are difficult to map using traditional methods. We highlight the improvement in remote sensing geological mapping that arises from the integration of geomorphic features in classifications. The Mawat Ophiolite Comp...

Over the last two decades, the California Geological Survey (CGS) has increasingly received requests for environmental geology/mineralogy/geochemistry information from State and local agencies, consultants, industries, and the public. These requests have led to projects to identify and map potential mineral hazards such as naturally occurring asbestos, heavy metals, and radon. In these projects...

Hyperspectral imaging can provide both continuously spatial and spectral information of the Earth's surface that allows us mapping of the regional geological and mineral resources information. One of the most successful applications of hyperspectral imaging remote sensing identified was regional geological and mineral resource surveys. A light-weight airborne hyperspectral imaging system (LAHIS...

OVER the last several years the Department of Chemical Engineering of Monash University has been studying the general problem of mineral beneficiation of cobalt minerals. As part of the investigation, samples were obtained from the cobalt-mineralized area around Mount Cobalt, which is situated some 11o km south of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia. The geology of the area has been d...

This account is a progress report on geological mapping and field data compilation around part of the southern Cordillera LITHOPROBE transect in the lntermontane Belt. Objectives included integrating and improving the surface geological database for interpretation of the 1988 Vibroseis survey and reassessing the geological setting of mineral occurrences in the area. The transect route lies in t...

This paper describes the application of a new multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique called fuzzy outranking to map prospectivity for porphyry Cu Mo deposits. Various raster-based evidential layers involving geological, geophysical, and geochemical geo-data sets are integrated for mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM). In a case study, 13 layers of the Now Chun deposit located in the Ker...