Geophysical exploration for gold and associated minerals, case study: Wadi El Beida area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-356

  Sultan, Sultan Awad ^a   Mansour, Salah Ahmed ^b   Santos, Fernando Monteiro ^c   Helaly, Ahmad Sobhy ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b Egyptian General Mineral Resource Authority (EMRA)   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FAULT ZONE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GOLD; MAGNETIC SURVEY; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; ORE BODY; ORE DEPOSIT; SELF POTENTIAL; SHEAR ZONE; SULFIDE;

EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT;

EID: 72449133859     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/6/4/002     Document Type: Article

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