The mineral exploration has improved in the last decades, today there are different methods of remote exploration, that are applied in mining industry worldwide, helping to discover ore minerals deposits in zones that have not access to them. The study area of this article is located about 400 km from Khartoum, characterized by low reliefs covered by sand and gravely sand. The study wants to carry out the geological mapping and the prospective zones using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Sudan is characterized by geological formations over inaccessible areas, in that way the remote sensing technique has a great value in these conditions, saving time and money. The used methodology has been divided into three phases: Pre-field office work, field work and post-field work. The processing of the satellite images includes color band composites, in order to obtain the lithological and geological features, the different types of rocks were defined by a different color. Obtaining the following rock types: High-grade gneisses and migmatites described to comprise the basement complex, ophiolitic mafic-ultramafic rocks that appear in the northern and southern sides of the area, metasediments that cover most of the study area, syn-orogenic intrusions that cut the older mafic-ultramafic units and the metavolcanosedimentary sequences, post-orogenic intrusions and gold mineralization. Based on the image analysis results of Landsat 8 OLI, 32 ore samples were collected to analysis gold and pathfinder elements obtaining high anomalies results for Au, Ag, Cu, Zn, Pb and Fe.
The aim of the work is to estimate the Inteet area for search for gold mineralization. This area is located between Umm Trambishi and Alsalam area in Nile River State, Sudan. Surrounding territory is a gold-mining region, in which there are known deposits with estimated resources, as well as promising places where local prospecting is carried out. For a preliminary assessment of the prospects of the site is necessary to conduct geological and geochemical studies. Evaluation of the geological environment was carried out both during field work and with a petrographic microscope. 11 thin sections of rock samples have been prepared and petrographically investigated under polarized microscope the mineral compositions, textures, microstructures, degree of alteration and metamorphism have been studied. Geochemical studies were conducted on 32 samples from 25 sampling points. The main results of petrographic investigation and geochemical survey show the presence of hydrothermal alteration zones, which are associated with a high content of elements-indicators of gold mineralization. In general, the territory can be assessed as promising, but requiring further exploration and assessment work.
The purpose of the article is to determine the sequence of mineral formation of copper-nickel ores of Kun-Manie deposit, which is located in Zeya district of Amur region. Three ore chutes take part in the structure of the deposit. Ore-bearing formations are sheet and sheetlike bodies of ultra-basic composition of the Kun-Manien complex, lying among rocks of crystal foundation of the Early Archean. Among the rocks, hornblende differences of gabbro-pyroxenites and pyroxenites predominate. In addition to nickel, the ores contain a wide range of associated components. The ores oxidation zone within the deposit and the entire ore field is not developed. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that detailed studies of ore minerals have not previously been carried out. The study presented in the work was conducted by polarizing ore microscope on polished ore samples characterizing different zones of the ore body. The result of the study was the establishment of mineral paragenesis and the sequence of mineral formation. It has been determined that the main ore minerals are pyrrhotine, pentlandite, also found - pyrite, chalcopyrite, less often - ilmenite, magnetite, sphalerite, platinum group elements. Ore mineralization formed in two stages. The magmatic stage is an early and main mineral formation phases including pyrite-magnetite, polymetallic and pentlandite associations. The hydrothermal stage is a late phase involving a pyrite association.
The scope of the discussion embraces the problems connected with development and improvement of geological information processing methods and systems, as well as modeling of primary mineral deposits in exploration of side rock mass and deep horizons of the deposits under mining and in new areas with intent to discover potential copper-nickel sulphide mineralization. The target of the research is the geological and geochemical preconditions and signs of sulphide mineralization in the potentially ore-bearing Tangaralakh field adjacent to the deposits of the Talnakh ore-magmatic system. The integrated research is based on the conventional different-rank geological, geochemical, magmatic, structural, tectonic, lithological and stratigraphical preconditions and signs of sulphide copper-nickel platinum-bearing ore in the Norilsk Region. The geochemical search of ore objects in the Norilsk Region provided the best results in case of the geological and structural analysis of spatial interactions between geochemical abnormalities as the geochemical zonality is yet the chief factor in the mineralization prediction. This method of improvement of geological-geochemical information processing and modeling of mineral deposits was tested in geological-geochemical modeling of the Talnakh ore province bodies. From the research findings, the structural and tectonic conditions of localization of the potentially ore-bearing Tangaralakh intrusion were determined. The structural modeling of geochemical field of the mineralization revealed the types of geochemical associations marking different compositions of sulphide mineralization in disseminated ore in different sections of the Tangaralakh intrusion. It is found that the geochemical zonality coincides with the mineral zonality of the disseminated ore horizon formed at different stages of orogenesis. The similarity elements are found in the geological-geochemical models of the Tangaralakh potentially ore-bearing ore field and Talnakh ore field (ore-magmatic system).
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