Seismic properties of the Voisey's Bay massive sulfide deposit: Insights into approaches to seismic imaging

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Duff, Deanne ^a   Hurich, Charles ^b   Deemer, Sharon ^b  

^a Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mining; Seismic impedance; Survey design

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; COBALT DEPOSITS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINING; PYRITES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VELOCITY;

CRYSTALLINE TARGETS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS; MINING ENVIRONMENTS; SEISMIC IMPEDANCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION IMAGING; SURVEY DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

HOST ROCK; IMAGING METHOD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE DEPOSIT; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURVEY DESIGN;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; VOISEY'S BAY;

EID: 84866460379     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0483.1     Document Type: Article

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