Cost‐effective in‐mine seismic experiments to image platinum deposits and associated geological structures at Maseve platinum mine, South Africa

MK Rapetsoa, MSD Manzi, M Westgate… - Near Surface …, 2022 - earthdoc.org
The detection of mineral deposits and their related geological structures is of great
importance to the mining industry as structures (such as dykes and faults) can affect the …

Multisource seismic full waveform inversion of metal ore bodies

F Zhang, P Zhang, Z Xu, X Gong, L Han - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
The seismic exploration method could explore deep metal ore bodies (depth> 1000 m).
However, it is difficult to describe the geometry of the complex metal ore body accurately …

Seismic Imaging of Mineral Exploration Targets: Evaluation of Ray-vs. Wave-Equation-Based Pre-Stack Depth Migrations for Crooked 2D Profiles

B Singh, M Malinowski - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Seismic imaging is now a well-established method in mineral exploration with many
successful case studies. Seismic data are usually imaged in the time domain (post-stack or …

Potential of Phase-Amplitude-Based Multi-Scale Full Waveform Inversion with Total-Variation Regularization for Seismic Imaging of Deep-Seated Ores

Y Xu, Y Hu, Z Xie, L Han, Y Zhang, J Yuan, X Wan… - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the demand for ore resources increases, the target for mineral exploration gradually shifts
from shallow to deep parts of the Earth (> 1 km). However, for the ore-hosting strata, it is …