Designing Optimal Strategies for Mineral Exploration

One Optimizing Mineral Exploration.- 1.1. General Statement.- 1.2. The Mitigation of Uncertainty and Risk in Mineral Exploration.- 1.3. Conclusion: Scope of the Book.- References and Selected Readings.- Two Evaluation of the Probability of Detection of Mineral Deposits.- 2.1. The Detection Process.- 2.2. Geometric Considerations Involved in the Detection of Mineral Deposits.- 2.3. The Theory of Geometric Probabilities as a Foundation for the Evaluation of the Probability of Detection of Mineral Deposits.- 2.4. Evaluation of the Probability of Target Detection by Airborne Geophysical Surveys.- 2.5. Evaluation of the Probability of Target Detection by Ground Geophysical Surveys and Drilling Programs.- 2.6. Probability of equential Detection of Ore Deposits.- References and Selected Readings.- Three Cost of Detection.- 3.1. General Statement.- 3.2. Costing and Cost Estimates.- 3.3. Cost Functions.- 3.4. Tabulation of Cost Functions.- References and Selected Readings.- Four Optimizing Ore Detection.- 4.1. General Statement.- 4.2. Basic Theory of Optimization.- 4.3. Methodology of Optimization.- 4.4. Application of Optimization Theory to Ore Detection.- References and Selected Readings.- Five Application of the Optimization Methodology to the Search for Six Types of Ore Deposits in North America.- 5.1. General Statement.- 5.2. Construction of a Database.- 5.3. Data Processing.- 5.4. Computation of Detection Probabilities.- 5.5. Design of Three Strategies for the Detection of Six Types of Ore Deposits in North America.- References and Selected Readings.- Six Designing Optimized Field Programs for the Detection of Porphyry-Cu-Mo Deposits of the North American Cordillera Belt.- 6.1. General Geological Background.- 6.2. Field Detection Methodology.- 6.3. Statistical Modeling of the Geometric Parameters of Porphyry-Cu-Mo Deposits and their Associated Pyritic Halos.- 6.4. Construction and Organization of Detection Probability Tables.- 6.5. Designing Three Strategies for the Search for Porphyry-Cu-Mo Deposits in the North American Cordillera Belt.- References and Selected Readings.- Seven Optimized Search for Four Types of Contact Metasomatic Deposits of the North American Cordillera Belt.- 7.1. General Geological Background.- 7.2. Field Detection Methodology.- 7.3. Probability of Detection of Cu-Fe Contact Metasomatic Deposits.- 7.4. Probability of Detection of Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag Contact Metasomatic Deposits.- 7.5. Probability of Detection of Cu-Mo-Au Contact Metasomatic Deposits.- 7.6. Probability of Detection of W-Mo Contact Metasomatic Deposits.- 7.7. Designing Three Strategies for the Detection of Four Types of Contact Metasomatic Deposits of the North American Cordillera.- References and Selected Readings.- Eight Detection of Ni-Cu Ultramafic Deposits of the North American Shield by Optimized Geophysical Surveys and Drilling Programs.- 8.1. General Geological Background.- 8.2. Field Detection Methodology.- 8.3. Statistical Modeling of Geometric Parameters of Ni-Cu Deposits.- 8.4. Construction and Organization of Detection Probability Tables.- 8.5. Designing Three Strategies for the Detection of Ni-Cu Deposits of the North American Shield.- 8.6. Detection Probability and Optimization Tables.- References and Selected Readings.- Nine Optimized Airborne and Ground Search for Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the North American Shield and Cordillera Belt.- 9.1. General Statement.- 9.2. General Geological Background: Volcanogenic Sulfide Deposits of the North American Shield.- 9.3. Field Detection Methodology.- 9.4. Statistical Modeling of Geometric Parameters of Shield.- Volcanogenic Sulfide Deposits.- 9.5. Construction and Organization of Detection Probability Tables for Shield Volcanogenic Sulfide Deposits.- 9.6. Design of Three Strategies for the Detection of Shield Volcanogenic Sulfide Deposits.- 9.7. Detection Probability and Optimization Tables for Shield.- Volcanogenic Sulfide Deposits.- 9.8. Geological Synopsis for Volcanogen