Discovering buried copper porphyry mineralization : geochemistry and indicator minerals in till / [by] A. Plouffe and T. Ferbey. : M183-2/7680E-PDF

The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience knowledge and innovative techniques to better detect buried mineral deposits, thereby reducing some of the risks of exploration. The first part of our study demonstrated that sediments deposited by glaciers contain certain type of minerals and metals that are indicative of metal enrichment in the underlying bedrock. Such enrichment, if significant enough, has the potential to become a mine. Therefore, the presence of those minerals and metals in the glacial sediments can help find mines. We have tested this hypothesis by looking at the composition of glacial sediments in a region where there is no mine. Our results indicate that in two zones, certain minerals enriched in copper and gold found in glacial sediments could be indicative of undiscovered mineralization in rock. This study was completed as part of the Targeted Geoscience Initiative-4 of the Geological Survey of Canada.

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Ministère/Organisme Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada.
Titre Discovering buried copper porphyry mineralization : geochemistry and indicator minerals in till / [by] A. Plouffe and T. Ferbey.
Titre de la série Open file (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 7680
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) "Presented at the Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG), the 27th annual KEG Conference and Trade Show, April 8th-9th 2014."
"A Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 Contribution."
Includes bibliograhic references.
Information sur la publication Ottawa : Natural Resources Canada, 2015.
Auteur / Contributeur Plouffe, Alain, 1963-
Ferbey, T. (Travis)
Description [1] p. : graphs, figures, maps.
Numéro de catalogue
  • M183-2/7680E-PDF
Descripteurs Geochemistry
Surficial geology
Geomorphology
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