Integrated multi-parameter footprints of ore systems: The next generation of ore deposit models

加拿大的矿产勘探越来越侧重于隐蔽和深埋目标，需要更有效的工具来探测大型成矿系统，并从其最远边缘到高品位岩心。该研究项目涉及来自加拿大24所大学的42名研究人员和来自加拿大矿业创新委员会勘探联盟的25家公司的27名行业合作者，旨在通过开发实际应用和方法来获取、管理、整合和分析地质、地球化学、矿物学、岩石物理、地球物理数据可以用来识别矿系统最远边缘和最深处的足迹。它还将提供关于地质过程的独特组合的基本新知识，这些地质过程是造成地壳中一些最大金属浓度的原因。该项目的第一阶段将涉及对三个主要矿石系统进行多学科综合研究：魁北克的加拿大马拉蒂金系统、萨斯喀彻温省的麦克阿瑟河-千年铀系统和不列颠哥伦比亚省的高地谷铜钼金系统。每个地点的研究将把现有的勘探数据和公司内部的知识与新数据结合起来，为远程探测矿床和深度或浅层测绘的技术进步奠定基础。

Mineral exploration in Canada is increasingly focused on concealed and deeply buried targets, requiring more effective tools to detect large-scale ore-forming systems and to vector from their most distal margins to their high-grade cores. This research project, involving 42 researchers from 24 universities across Canada and 27 industry collaborators from 25 companies in the Exploration Consortium of the Canadian Mining Innovation Council, is aimed at improving exploration success by developing practical applications and approaches to the acquisition, management, integration, and analysis of geological, geochemical, mineralogical, petrophysical, and geophysical data that can be used to identify the ore-system footprint at its most distant edge and at depth. It will also provide fundamental new knowledge about the unique combinations of geological processes that have been responsible for some of the largest concentrations of metal in the Earth's crust. The first phase of the project will involve multidisciplinary integrative research at three major ore systems: the Canadian Malartic gold system in Quebec, the McArthur River - Millennium uranium system in Saskatchewan, and the Highland Valley copper-molybdenum-gold system in British Columbia. The research at each site will integrate existing exploration data and in-house company knowledge with new data, providing a foundation for technological advances in remote detection of ore deposits and for mapping at depth or under shallow cover.