Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
Authors: Alan Oertel*, Robert White, Steve Collins, Keith Leslie, Ben Spyridis
Date Published: September 2019
Number of Pages: 4
Abstract:
Available electrical geophysical methods are specialised in detecting conductive and chargeable targets, particularly sulphide deposits. A key challenge facing Induced Polarisation (IP) and Transient Electromagnetism (TEM) methods is that often a chargeable target is not a sulphide deposit but a graphitic shale or clay formation. These shale deposits are undesirable targets, as discrimination is not able to be determined by geophysical methods but rather requires expensive physical methods such as drilling.