Selection of coherent deposit-type locations and their application in data-driven mineral prospectivity mapping

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 536-558

  Carranza, E J M ^a   Hale, M ^a,b   Faassen, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alkalic porphyry Cu Au; British Columbia (Canada); Cumulative frequency distributions; Evidential belief functions; Geochemistry; Geophysics; GIS; Logistic regression; Structural controls

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; EVIDENTIAL BELIEF FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MINERAL RESOURCES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GIS; MAPPING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 43549121664     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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