This article describes the geology and industrial mineral potential of corundum, pyrophyllite and andaluite at the Empress deposit in the Taseko Lakes area (Figure 1). The Empress is a copper-goldmolybdenum porphyry deposit located 225 kilometres north of Vancouver and 50 kilometres northwest of Goldbridge and the Bralorne mining camp. Fine-grained corundum, in association with andalusite-pyrop...

Presented here in the form of case study examples are the results from a number of practical exercises to explore the state of the art of automatic 3D reconstructions. That is, deriving the underlying geometry of an object or place based only upon photographs. There is a wide range of applications for this technology; traditionally it has been used for landscape/terrain modeling, geology and by...

Airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral sensors collect information which is derived from the electromagnetic spectrum of an observed area. Hyperspectral data are used in several studies and they are an important aid in different real-life applications (e.g., mining and geology applications, ecology, surveillance, etc.). A hyperspectral image has a three-dimensional structure (a sort of datacube)...

Most of the work which has been done on trace elements in soils has been in relation to deficiency or toxicity effects on plants. Although a certain amount of work has been reported on the effects of trace elements on ammonification and nitrification in soils 12 a 4 5 6 the results obtained are conflicting. Trace elements may be introduced into soil where pesticide sprays e.g. copper fungicides...

Remote sensing and Geographic Information System play a pivotal role in environmental mapping, mineral exploration, agriculture, forestry, geology, water, ocean, infrastructure planning and management, disaster mitigation and management etc. Remote Sensing and GIS has grown as a major tool for collecting information on almost every aspect on the earth for last few decades. In the recent years, ...

A metal-enriched seawater plume entering the western Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar originates 300 km to the west in the Rio Tinto estuary of southwestern Spain. Mining of Rio Tinto ore, one of the largest metal-rich sulfide deposits in the world, started well before Roman times. Contemporary Rio Tinto waters draining the region are highly acidic (pH 2.5) with dissolved cadmi...

The fundamental cause of the errors of samples of rocks and minerals collected by geologists for evaluation of mining projects is heterogeneity of the sampled materials (Gy, 1982; Francois-Bongarcon, 1993; Pitard, 1993). Constitution heterogeneity and distribution heterogeneity (Pitard, 1993) both are important and cause geological sampling errors. The more heterogeneous the sampled material th...

STRUCTURE, DEVON ISLAND, CANADA. P. Lindgren, C. Broman, N. G. Holm, J. Parnell, S.A. Bowden, G.R. Osinski, P. Lee, Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Rich...

IMPACT STRUCTURE, DEVON ISLAND: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SEARCH FOR BIOMARKERS ON MARS. J. Parnell, G.R. Osinski, P. Lee, C. S. Cockell, C.W. Taylor, Dept. of Geology & Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., [email protected], Dept. of Geology, University of Arizona, U.S.A., Mars Institute and SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, U...