Electromagnetic imaging of a complex ore body: 3D forward modeling, sensitivity tests, and down-mine measurements

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Queralt, Pilar ^a   Jones, Alan G ^b   Ledo, Juanjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Minerals; Terrestrial electricity

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETISM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

AUDIO-MAGNETOTELLURICS (AMT); BODY-STRIPPING APPROACH;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETISM; IMAGING METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; ORE BODY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 33947157313     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2437105     Document Type: Article

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