00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.819736 CaOODSP 20251031142446 cr ||||||||||| 160620s2015 onc|||||o f|0| 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- M183-2/7680E-PDF Plouffe, Alain, 1963- Discovering buried copper porphyry mineralization [electronic resource] : geochemistry and indicator minerals in till / [by] A. Plouffe and T. Ferbey. Ottawa : Natural Resources Canada, 2015. [1] p. : graphs, figures, maps. Open file (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 7680 "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. 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. gccst Geochemistry gccst Surficial geology gccst Geomorphology Ferbey, T. (Travis) Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Geological Survey of Canada. Open file (Geological Survey of Canada) 7680 (CaOODSP)9.506878 PDF 4.66 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/rncan-nrcan/M183-2-7680-eng.pdf