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Geophysical Case Study of the Woodlawn Orebody, N.S.W., Australia

The First Publication of Methods and Techniques Tested over a Base Metal Orebody of the Type which Yields the Highest Rate of Return on Mining Investment with Modest Capital Requirements

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1981
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: R. J. Whiteley
  • Language: English

The Woodlawn orebody is located in eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is one of an important class of massive, copper-lead-zinc, stratiform volcanogenic mineral deposits and… Read more

Description

The Woodlawn orebody is located in eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is one of an important class of massive, copper-lead-zinc, stratiform volcanogenic mineral deposits and has reserves of about 10 million tonnes of ore. Deposits such as Woodlawn are the object of considerable worldwide exploitation effort because they yield the highest rate of return on mining investment with modest capital requirements. This detailed geophysical case study contains individual contributions by professionals from diverse backgrounds (industry, government and university) and includes the latest geophysical methods. It is the only detailed geophysical study of an economic sulphide deposit ever undertaken for educational purposes

Readership

Practising geologists, geophysicists, mining engineers, mineral explorers, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, mineral economists, senior undergraduate and graduate students in earth sciences, science and engineering

Table of contents

(partial) Introduction and summary

Exploration history

Regional and local setting

Prediscovery geophysical surveys

Physical property measurements

Airborne geophysical surveys

Ground geophysical surveys: electromagnetic methods

Ground geophysical surveys: electrical methods

Ground geophysical surveys: magnetic and gravity methods

Ground geophysical surveys: seismic refraction

Downhole geophysical surveys

Index

Author index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1981
  • Language: English

About the editor

RW

R. J. Whiteley

Affiliations and expertise
The University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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