Recognition coefficient of spatial geological features, an approach to facilitate criteria weighting for mineral exploration targeting

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1 Faculty of Engineering, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.

2 Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

3 School of Mining, Petroleum and Geophysics, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

10.22059/ijmge.2023.355380.595037

Abstract

The different methods for delineating favorable areas for mineral exploration utilize exploration criteria regarding targeted mineral deposits. The criteria are elicited according to conceptual model parameters of the targeted mineral deposits. The selection of indicator criteria, the evaluation of their comparative importance, and their integration are critical in mineral prospectivity modelling. In data-driven methods, indicator features are weighted using functions whereby the importance of certain indicator criteria may be ignored. In this paper, a data-driven method is described for recognizing and converting exploration criteria into quantitative coefficients representing favorability for the presence of the targeted mineral deposits. In this approach, all indicator features of the targeted mineral deposits are recognized and incorporated in the modelling procedure. The method is demonstrated for outlining favorable areas for a Mississippi valley-type fluorite deposit in an area, north of Iran. The method is developed by studying and modelling the geological characteristics of known mineral occurrences. The degree of prediction ability of each exploration criterion is quantified as a recognition coefficient, which can be used as a weight attributed to the criterion in mineral exploration targeting to outline favorable areas.

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International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering
Volume 57, Issue 4
December 2023
Pages 365-372

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