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Semi-quantitative mineral abundance estimation on drill-core samples

  • theiax
  • Jan 17, 2022
  • 1 min read

Due to the extensive drilling performed every year in exploration campaigns for the discovery and evaluation of ore deposits, drill-core mapping is becoming an essential step. While valuable mineralogical information is extracted during core logging by on-site geologists, the process is time-consuming and dependent on the observer and individual background. Hyperspectral short-wave infrared data is used in the mining industry as a tool to complement traditional logging techniques and to provide a rapid and non-invasive analytical method for mineralogical characterization. Additionally, Scanning Electron Microscopy-based image analyses using a Mineral Liberation Analyser (SEM-MLA) provide exhaustive high-resolution mineralogical maps, but can only be performed on small areas of the drill-cores. We use machine learning algorithms to combine the two data types and upscale the quantitative SEM-MLA mineralogical data to drill-core scale.


Our upscaling approach increases result transparency and reproducibility by employing physical-based data acquisition (hyperspectral imaging) combined with mathematical models (machine learning). The obtained mineral abundance maps are further used for the extraction of mineralogical parameters such as mineral association.


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More details can be found here: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071218




 
 
 

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