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A Study of Feasibility of Dipole-dipole Electric Method to Metallic Ore-deposit Exploration in Korea  

Min, Dong-Joo (Dept. of Energy System Engineering, Seoul National University)
Jung, Hyun-Key (Geotechnical Engineering Div., Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Park, Sam-Gyu (Geotechnical Engineering Div., Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Chon, Hyo-Taek (Dept. of Energy System Engineering, Seoul National University)
Kwak, Na-Eun (Dept. of Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.11, no.3, 2008 , pp. 250-262 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to assess the feasibility of the dipole-dipole electric method to the investigation of metallic ore deposit, both field data simulation and inversion are carried out for several simplified ore deposit models. Our interest is in a vein-type model, because most of the ore deposits (more than 70%) exist in a vein type in Korea. Based on the fact that the width of the vein-type ore deposits ranges from tens of centimeters to 2m, we change the width and the material property of the vein, and we use 40m-electrode spacing for our test. For the vein-type model with too small width, the low resistivity zone is not detected, even though the resistivity of the vein amounts to 1/300 of that of the surrounding rock. Considering a wide electrode interval and cell size used in the inversion, it is natural that the size of the low resistivity zone is overestimated. We also perform field data simulation and inversion for a vein-type model with surrounding hydrothermal alteration zones, which is a typical structure in an epithermal ore deposits. In the model, the material properties are assumed on the basis of resistivity values directly observed in a mine originated from an epithermal ore deposits. From this simulation, we can also note that the high resistivity value of the vein does not affect the results when the width of the vein is narrow. This indicates that our main target should be surrounding hydrothermal alteration zones rather than veins in field survey. From these results, we can summarize that when the vein is placed at the deep part and the difference of resistivity values between the vein and the surrounding rock is not large enough, we cannot detect low resistivity zone and interpret the subsurface structures incorrectly using the electric method performed at the surface. Although this work is a little simple, it can be used as references for field survey design and field data Interpretation. If we perform field data simulation and inversion for a number of models and provide some references, they will be helpful in real field survey and interpretation.
Keywords
metallic ore deposit; dipole-dipole electric method; Sunshin gold mine; numerical modeling and inversion;
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