Identifying Potential Economic Mining Targets from Fluid Event Characterization

矿产勘探本来就很困难。勘探公司采用各种策略来最小化风险，最大化成功的可能性。最常见的一种策略是识别潜在勘探目标与已知经济矿床之间的相似之处。资源积累所需的地质条件往往是短暂的，形成矿床所必需的特定构造、流体和地质圈闭在短时间间隔内重合。这使得量化潜在目标的时间信息对勘探策略至关重要。Enduro Metals的纽蒙特湖勘探项目位于不列颠哥伦比亚省“金三角”矿区的中部。它举办了各种各样的矿物展览，这些展览与地区的世界级矿藏有着未知的关系。英属哥伦比亚大学、奥肯那根研究人员和Enduro metals的合作将详细描述纽蒙特湖矿产中不同的矿物显示。这项工作将包括量化与成矿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，有助于将未来的勘探重点放在最有前景的矿物显示上。

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.