Data-driven index overlay and Boolean logic mineral prospectivity modeling in greenfields exploration

Yousefi, Mahyar, and Carranza, Emmanuel John M. (2016) Data-driven index overlay and Boolean logic mineral prospectivity modeling in greenfields exploration. Natural Resources Research, 25 (1). pp. 3-18.

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Abstract

Index overlay and Boolean logic are two techniques customarily applied for knowledge-driven modeling of prospectivity for mineral deposits, whereby weights of values in evidential maps and weights of every evidence map are assigned based on expert opinion. In the Boolean logic technique for mineral prospectivity modeling (MPM), threshold evidential values for creating binary maps are defined based on expert opinion as well. This practice of assigning weights based on expert opinion involves trial-and-error and introduces bias in evaluating relative importance of both evidential values and individual evidential maps. In this paper, we propose a data-driven index overlay MPM technique whereby weights of individual evidential maps are derived from data. We also propose a data-driven Boolean logic MPM technique, whereby thresholds for creating binary maps are defined based on data. For assigning weights and defining thresholds in these proposed data-driven MPM techniques, we applied a prediction-area plot from which we can estimate the predictive ability of each evidential map with respect to known mineral occurrences, and we use that predictive ability estimate to assign weights to evidential map and to select thresholds for generating binary predictor maps. To demonstrate these procedures, we applied them to an area in the Kerman province in southeast Iran as a MPM case study for porphyry-Cu deposits.

Item ID: 43176
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1573-8981
Keywords: data-driven; index overlay; Boolean logic; greenfields exploration; mineral prospectivity modeling
Date Deposited: 10 Mar 2016 03:30
FoR Codes: 49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES > 4903 Numerical and computational mathematics > 490399 Numerical and computational mathematics not elsewhere classified @ 80%
37 EARTH SCIENCES > 3705 Geology > 370508 Resource geoscience @ 20%
SEO Codes: 84 MINERAL RESOURCES (excl. Energy Resources) > 8401 Mineral Exploration > 840199 Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified @ 50%
89 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 8902 Computer Software and Services > 890201 Application Software Packages (excl. Computer Games) @ 50%
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