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    An integrated exploration effort in southern Peru led to the discovery of a large porphyry copper deposit near Yauri town. Airphoto and airborne magnetic surveys identified 7 potential ore zones covering an area of 360 square kilometers. Follow up geological and geochemical surveys along with induced polarization testing reduced the favorable area to 50 square kilometers containing 3 higher potential zones. Diamond drilling in 1973 intersected disseminated sulfide ores. Estimates indicate reserves of several tens of million tons of disseminated sulfide ores. The induced polarization geophysical method proved critical for directly detecting the mineralized zone given its depth and disseminated nature.

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    An integrated exploration effort in southern Peru led to the discovery of a large porphyry copper deposit near Yauri town. Airphoto and airborne magnetic surveys identified 7 potential ore zones covering an area of 360 square kilometers. Follow up geological and geochemical surveys along with induced polarization testing reduced the favorable area to 50 square kilometers containing 3 higher potential zones. Diamond drilling in 1973 intersected disseminated sulfide ores. Estimates indicate reserves of several tens of million tons of disseminated sulfide ores. The induced polarization geophysical method proved critical for directly detecting the mineralized zone given its depth and disseminated nature.

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    鉱 山 地 質 (MINING GEOLOGY) ,24,169∼187,1974

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    An integrated exploration effort in southern Peru led to the discovery of a large porphyry copper deposit near Yauri town. Airphoto and airborne magnetic surveys identified 7 potential ore zones covering an area of 360 square kilometers. Follow up geological and geochemical surveys along with induced polarization testing reduced the favorable area to 50 square kilometers containing 3 higher potential zones. Diamond drilling in 1973 intersected disseminated sulfide ores. Estimates indicate reserves of several tens of million tons of disseminated sulfide ores. The induced polarization geophysical method proved critical for directly detecting the mineralized zone given its depth and disseminated nature.

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    Regional

    Geophysical

    Surveys

    in Southern

    Peru

    Shigezo INUZUKA, KOMAIand Naoyuki HANAOKA Jiro


    Abstract

    An ore deposit of the so-called porphyry copper type has and integrated exploration near Yauri town in Cuzco Prefecture In 1970, airphoto and airborne magnetic surverys were ore zones in the vast area of about 12,000km2 and an area

    been found by the systematic , Southern Peru. conducted to extract possible of 360km2 including seven

    potential zones was picked up by these surveys. This area was reduced to 50km2 of three more favorable zones by the geological reconnaissance surveys, and finally a zone of the highest potentiality in the are was taken up by the detailed geological and geochemical surveys as well as by the induced polarization method . In 1973, disseminated sulphide ores were intersected by the diamond drillings . The present estimation of the ore reserves is several tens cf million tones of disseminated sulphide ores. This successful result gives an excellent example of a systematic and integrated approach of the exploration. Due to the depth of the ore zone and the disseminated character of most of the ores , the induced polarization method was the only geophysical technique useful for the direct detection of the mineralized zone. The usefulness of the IP method can be read by the correlation of the geological observation to the inferred structures interpreted from the IP data .

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