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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2013.16.3.180

Physical Properties of Rocks at the Gagok Skarn Deposit  

Shin, Seungwook (Exploration Geophysics and Mining Engineering Dept., Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Park, Samgyu (Exploration Geophysics and Mining Engineering Dept., Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Hyoung-Rae (Department of Geoenvironmental Sciences, Kongju National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.16, no.3, 2013 , pp. 180-189 More about this Journal
Abstract
Geophysical exploration is widely used to develop strategic mineral resources in the world because of its efficient method in detecting mineralized zones in the metallic ore deposit. It is important to understand the physical properties of the stratum so that geophysical data can be more accurately interpreted. This paper is to comprehend physical properties of the rock at the Gagok mine, a typical skarn deposit in Korea. Thus, laboratory tests were conducted on specimens of ore and host rocks which were collected from rock outcrops and drill cores at the Gagok mine. Using the measurement system of rock physical property, we investigated the density, magnetic susceptibility, resistivity, and spectral induced polarization. According to the results, all physical properties of specimens had wide differences depending on contents of ore minerals, which are formed by skarnization. Especially, using the chargeability and time constant from the calculated spectral induced polarization data by the Cole-Cole inversion, we could estimate the volume contents as well as the grain size of the sulfide minerals. Therefore, the spectral induced polarization technique may be considered a useful method when exploring metallic ore deposit with sulfide minerals.
Keywords
skarn deposit; rock physical properties; resistivity; spectral induced polarization;
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