Targeting nickel sulfide deposits from 3D seismic reflection data at Kambalda, Australia

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Urosevic, Milovan ^a   Bhat, Ganesh ^b   Grochau, Marcos Hexsel ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Consolidated Minerals Limited ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

3D; Acquisition; Australia; Interpretation; Mining

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GOLD DEPOSITS; INFILL DRILLING; IRON DEPOSITS; IRON ORES; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; MINING; NICKEL DEPOSITS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

ACQUISITION; AUSTRALIA; COMMON-REFLECTION POINTS; INTERPRETATION; MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS; POTENTIAL FIELD METHODS; SEISMIC FORWARD MODELING; VOLUMETRIC INTERPRETATION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; FORWARD MODELING; GOLD; GREENSTONE BELT; IRON; MASSIVE SULFIDE; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; RAY TRACING; REGOLITH; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFIDE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ULTRASONICS;

AUSTRALIA; KAMBALDA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84866464788     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0514.1     Document Type: Article

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