Identifying Potential Economic Mining Targets from Fluid Event Characterization

从流体事件特征中识别潜在的经济采矿目标

• 批准号: 561739-2021
• 负责人: Larson, Kyle
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=722816
• 关键词: Identifying; Potential; Economic; Mining; Targets

Mineral exploration is inherently difficult. Exploration companies employ a variety of strategies to minimize risk and maximize their likely hood of success. One of the most common such strategy is identifying similarities between potential exploration target and known economic deposits. The geological conditions required for resource accumulation are often transient with the specific tectonics, fluids, and geological traps necessary to create a deposit coinciding over brief intervals. This makes quantifying the timing information of potential targets critical to exploration strategies.Enduro Metals' Newmont Lake Exploration Project is located in the middle of the "Golden Triangle" mineral district of British Columbia. It is host to a variety of mineral showings with unknown relationships to regional, world-class mineral deposits. The partnership between the University of British Columbia, Okanagan researchers and Enduro metals will characterize, in detail, the different mineral showings withing the Newmont Lake property. This work will include quantifying the sources and timing of fluid movement related to mineralization. The information gleaned from the partnership will allow correlation of the various potential exploration targets with known deposits regionally, helping focus future exploration on the most prospective mineral showings.

矿产勘探本来就很困难。勘探公司采用各种策略来最大限度地降低风险并最大限度地提高成功的可能性。其中最常见的战略是确定潜在勘探目标和已知经济矿床之间的相似性。资源积累所需的地质条件往往是短暂的，形成存款所需的特定构造、流体和地质圈闭在短时间内重合。Enduro Metals的纽蒙特湖勘探项目位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的“金三角”矿产区中部。它是各种矿物展示的所在地，与区域性世界级矿床的关系未知。不列颠哥伦比亚省大学、Okanagan研究人员和Enduro金属公司之间的合作伙伴关系将详细描述纽蒙特湖矿区内不同的矿物显示。这项工作将包括量化与矿化有关的流体运动的来源和时间。从合作伙伴关系中收集的信息将使各种潜在勘探目标与区域已知矿床相关联，有助于将未来勘探重点放在最具前景的矿产显示上。