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Exploration - Dkumar
Exploration - Dkumar
Exploration methods
Geological
z drilling,
z trenching,
z pitting,
z Aditing
Geophysical
z detailed surface methods – gravity,
magnetic, electrical, seismic, etc.
z subsurface/borehole methods – gravity,
electric logging, etc.
Exploratory Drilling www.dkumar.org
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Mineral Exploration is carried out to find new ore deposits to
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Mineral Exploration entails
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Exploratory Drilling www.dkumar.org
z Area selection
z Target generation
z Resource evaluation
z Reserve definition
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Area selection
z Selection of the best, most prospective, area in a mineral field,
field, geological
region or terrain will assist in making it not only possible to find ore
deposits, but to find them easily, cheaply and quickly.
Target generation
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Resource evaluation
Reserve definition
z Reserve definition is undertaken to convert a mineral resource into
into an ore
reserve, which is an economic asset.
z Reserve definition also takes into account the milling and extractability
extractability
characteristics of the ore, and generates bulk samples for metallurgical
metallurgical
testwork, involving crushability, floatbility and other ore recovery
recovery
parameters.
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Programme of Exploration