From Predictive Mapping of Mineral Prospectivity to Quantitative Estimation of Number of Undiscovered Prospects

Resource Geology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-51

  Carranza, Emmanuel J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evidential belief functions; Fractal analysis; Fry analysis; GIS; Hydrothermal Au Cu; Mineralization controls; Spatial association analysis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GIS; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MAPPING METHOD; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERAL PROPERTY; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CATANDUANES; CATANDUANES ISLAND; LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 78650406353     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: 17513928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2010.00146.x     Document Type: Article

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