Method description
Experience of the last decades shows that reserves of easily detectable and open from the surface deposits are practically utilized. It is clear that their essential increase is possible at the cost of exploration of considerable hidden and overlapped shallow beds, which are economically efficient for mining projects.
On the other hand, imperfections of traditional geological-structural, geophysical, geochemical and other methods of in depth exploration associated with principal inaccuracy and impossibility of mass measurements of definable parameters are well known.
While implementing mining projects the choice is either high accuracy and mass measurement of definable parameters or ineffectiveness of specific large-scale local forecast (scale of ore bodies) which is lower than 3% in exploration of hidden and overlapped mineralization. In both cases it involves rise in prices of expensive exploration works .
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Theoretical justification of the method
Solution of this problem on a rigorous quantitative level is application of geoscanning method (extraction of depth ore signal using physicogeometrical parameters of relief) which is remarkable for its higher accuracy, generality and cost efficiency .
Geological meaning of this method is that substance (specific chemical elements, their associations) as mineralized state has specific values of certain determined geometric parameters - first partial derivatives of relief as set of elevations. In other words, information about perturbing ore substance is immediately reflected by relevant geometric properties of surface relief as a bedding interface.
The principle of the idea is very simple - it is that mass, space and time are interconnected. We select the reference mineralization and thus equate time to unity, then the geometric parameters of space (relief) will be directly related to mass, i.e. in our case with ore mineralization. All physics is based on this principle.
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Method technology
Specific methods of computation based on differential geometry and (modern) abstract algebra with the most general mathematical theories are used in calculations. Method technology comes to the following:
1. Direct problem is solved - first partial derivatives of relief as set of elevations in each point of area (or using quite dense grid) are defined within investigated (reference) area.
Integrated values of relief parameters in auxiliary value space for "ore" and "non-ore" are always located in certain dissimilar, spatially disconnected and symmetric regions with insignificant number of matches, i.e. located in opposite phases. They form typical patterns with regular symmetry elements and developed scale effects.
2. Final is the solution of inverse problem - relevant processing of relief parameters on unexplored area and ore signals extraction (vertical projection of probable mineralization on surface), which combination is easily interpreted as ore bodies (pic.1).
Results of discharge of forecast - forecasting layouts (a vertical projections of forecasting mineralization with parameters (content, reserves, depth and etc.) of reference ore mineralization on specified area, for specified gradations reference mineralization, with specified accuracy, with interpreted anl selected perspective sectors in form of layers on given topographical or geological map and short explanatory note.
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