New Advances in Geophysical Inversion in Mineral Exploration

Geophysical inversion in an integrated mineral exploration program: examples from the San Nicolás deposit

The ability to produce three-dimensional physical property models of the subsurface from surface geophysical data, coupled with an increasing need to explore for minerals in concealed terranes, results in geophysical inversions providing more significant information to the exploration team. We examine the role that geophysical inversion can play in an integrated mineral exploration program, and...

Focusing geophysical inversion images

A critical problem in inversion of geophysical data is developing a stable inverse problem solution that can si­ multaneously resolve complicated geological structures. The traditional way to obtain a stable solution is based on maximum smoothness criteria. This approach, however, provides smoothed unfocused images of real geoelectri­ cal structures. Recently, a new approach to reconstruc­ tion...

Using ASTER and geophysical mapping for mineral exploration in the Wagga Wagga and Cobar areas, N.S.W

Application of 2D inversion of magnetotelluric in exploration of hydrocarbon in south west of Iran

Since hydrocarbon sources have an important role in development of industry and technology, exploration of them has been lionized by human. The seismic reflection method is one of the most applicable investigative methods to identify the hydrocarbon reservoirs, but in some cases this method does not work well because of geology conditions and wave attenuation in depth. Thus, some exploration me...

Geophysical inversion using petrophysical constraints

Petrophysical information is sometimes available from well logs, laboratory measurements, etc. It has been shown that incorporation of such information into geophysical inversions can greatly improve the recovered models. However, when the known petrophysical information is not applicable throughout the entire region, the application of petrophysical constraints to geophysical inversions could ...