Geoelectricity and Electrical Methods in Mineral Exploration
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 April 2024) | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: petrology; geology; geophysics; tectonics; exploration geophysics; applied geophysics; near-surface geophysics; resistivity tomography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrical prospecting includes the DC method, self-potential method, induced polarization method, electromagnetic method, etc. It is a kind of geophysical method that uses artificial or natural signals to detect electrical parameters from the surface to the bottom of the lithosphere. This type of method collects electric or electromagnetic signals on the surface, in wells, or in water and obtains electric parameter models such as the polarizability and resistivity of underground media through data processing and inversion. Finally, according to the distribution characteristics of these parameters, the continental dynamics, plate boundaries, faults, volcanoes, and earthquake zones, as well as shallow research such as oil and gas, mineral deposits and geothermal field, are studied.
This Special Issue calls for papers on the research of electrical prospecting, mainly including but not limited to the relationship between the electrical structure and deep mineralization, volcanoes, metal ore exploration, geothermal resource exploration, etc.
Prof. Dr. Gaofeng Ye
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electric prospecting
- polarizability
- resistivity
- EM method
- mineral deposits
- volcanoes
- mineralization
- geothermal resources
