A dc resistivity and IP borehole survey at the Casa Berardi gold mine in northwestern Quebec

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 453-463

  Spitzer, Klaus ^a   Chouteau, Michel ^b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; QUARTZ; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELASTIC MODULI; FLUIDS; GOLD MINES; ITERATIVE METHODS; ORE DEPOSITS; POROSITY; ROCKS; SAND; SURVEYS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CASA BERARDI FAULT SYSTEM; CURRENT RESISTIVITY; DIRECT CURRENT (DC); INDUCED POLARIZATION (IP); ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; DIPOLE CONFIGURATIONS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; ELECTRODE POSITIONING; INDUCED POLARIZATION; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; POTENTIAL RESPONSE;

GOLD MINES; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; GOLD MINE; INDUCED POLARIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10844225118     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1567221     Document Type: Review

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