GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Exploration geochemistry aims to enlarge the target size of mineral exploration by establishing and discovering the chemical and mineral signals of economically valuable deposits. In near-mine exploration, the primary concentration halo around any deposit is used to vector toward the potential ore body.

Detailed explanation-2: -Geochemical exploration is any method of mineral or petroleum exploration that utilizes systematic measurements of one or more chemical properties of a naturally occurring material. The materials analyzed most commonly are rock, soil, stream and lake sediment, natural waters, vegetation and soil air.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are now three major types of exploration methods: (1) surface methods such as geologic feature mapping and detection of seepages, (2) area surveys of gravity and magnetic fields, and (3) seismographic methods.

Detailed explanation-4: -A log of elemental concentrations from which the geochemistry of the formation may be derived. Several logs provide information on elemental weight concentrations: natural gamma ray spectroscopy, elemental capture spectroscopy or pulsed neutron spectroscopy and aluminum activation.