The purpose of mineral exploration is to find ore deposits. The main aim of this work is to use the fuzzy inference system to integrate the exploration layers including the geological, remote sensing, geochemical, and magnetic data. The studied area was the porphyry copper deposit of the Kahang area in the preliminary stage of exploration. Overlaying of rock units and tectonic layers were used ...

Khatunabad area is situated geologically in UrmiehDokhtar magmatic belt in NW of Iran. In this research, studied area has been investigated in order to recognize the potential copper and molybdenum-bearing target areas. The survey layers include the lithologic units, alteration, geochemical result, tectonics and copper and molybdenum occurrence. As an accurate decision can have a considerable e...

Decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) is sensitive to vegetation and climate change. Here, we investigated the influence of changes in forest types on the mineralization of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), and their temperature sensitivity (Q10) and coupling relationships by using a laboratory soil incubation experiments. We sampled soils from four forest types, namely, a primary Quercus ...

Mineral prospectivity mapping is a crucial technique for discovering new economic mineral deposits. However, detailed knowledge-based geological exploration and interpretations generally involve significant costs, time, human resources. In this study, an ensemble machine learning approach was tested using geoscience datasets to map Cu-Au Pb-Zn in the Cobar Basin, NSW, Australia. The input (magn...

The degradation of organic matter in the anoxic seabed proceeds through a complex microbial network in which the terminal steps are dominated by oxidation with sulfate or conversion into methane and CO2 The controls on pathway and rate of the degradation process in different geochemical zones remain elusive. Radiotracer techniques were used to perform measurements of sulfate reduction, methanog...

jian cu deposit is hosted by surian volcano-sedimentary complex of permo-triassic age on the eastern edge of the sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic zone at a distance of 195 km from shiraz, southwestern iran. the complex consists mainly of metabasalt, chlorite-quartz schist, chlorite-muscovite schist, mica schist and graphite schist. pyrite is the most important sulfide and chalcopyrite is the major c...

Ooids are common carbonate particles that are traditionally considered as abiogenically formed by physical and chemical processes in highly agitated environments. Recent studies point to the importance of microbial activities in ooid formation, but more case studies are required to confirm and clarify the roles of microbes and their organomineralization processes. Here we report an integrated p...

The Ba, Pb and Zn ore deposit Pleše near Ljubljana is one of the formerly productive mines. stream sediments were sampled analysed by XRF to establish effect grain size, mineralization, downstream location sampling sites on geochemical composition based various statistical analyses. Statistical analyses data confirm impact mineralization. parametric t-test, non-parametric Mann-Whitney test clus...

the dehbid magnetite deposit is located in northeastern part of fars province, in the southern border of sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic zone. the mineralization occurred as veins and lenses along nw-se faults. the ores are mainly hosted in silicified dolomite of early mesozoic (triassic). mineralogical studies show that the ores are dominated by magnetite and minor hematite with massive texture oc...