Seismics in Mineral Exploration
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 7844
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seismic anisotropy; multi-component seismic; multi-wave seismic; rotational seismology; deep underground geophysical observation; ocean geophysics; mineral seismic
Interests: artificial intelligence geophysics; compressive sensing seismic exploration; seismic while drilling; numerical simulation and FWI
Interests: seismic exploration; mineral exploration; passive reflection seismic; seismic imaging; seismic migration; GPU
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Interests: geo-electromagnetic induction methods for mineral exploration; joint inversions for minerals
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Dear Colleagues,
The main problem encountered by mineral seismic exploration is accurately imaging concealed rock mass, faults and ore bodies with limited investment. Therefore, how to decrease the seismic acquisition cost is the most important point of concern. Promoted by rapid development of modern information science and technology, artificial intelligence, multi-component seismometers or nodes, and remote sensing techniques are widely applied in exploration seismology. However, mineral seismic is not a simple duplication of oil and gas seismics or engineering seismics. In recent years, much progress involving compressive sensing, multi-component seismics, active and passive source techniques, joint geophysical inversion and field cases has been achieved. For this Special Issue, submitted papers should be focused on a feasible, cost-effective seismic solution for mineral exploration to further improve the seismic precision, resolution and reliability. At least one of the following four topics should be covered:
(1) New theories, methods and techniques about active and passive source seismic and geo-electromagnetic induction methods, including significant or defeated cases. It should be noted that research on active reflection seismics, scattering seismics and geo-electromagnetic induction prospecting is not welcomed here, while joint active and passive seismic, natural and artificial source of geo-electromagnetic methods are favored topics.
(2) Seismic acquisition techniques assisted with artificial intelligence aimed at characterizing the complex topography and underground structures of mineral deposits, spare and non-regular grid seismic sampling, and active and passive seismics with multi-component sensors, especially methods about wave field construction with compressive sensing, and methods about separation of hybrid source and denoising. If there is no real mineral application, fossil energy models or cases can be supplemented.
(3) Multi-component seismics. Whether the source is active or passive, multi-component geophones and data processing methods, especially methods about vector denoising, multi-wave imaging, joint imaging with body and surface waves, should be given enough emphases; wide-frequency seismic migration joined with active and passive sources, and relatively new inversion methods and applications are particularly welcomed.
(4) Integrated geophysics. Seismic constrained geophysical interpretation and inversion, such as gravity-seismic, electro-seismic, and magnetic-seismic inversion, including joint imaging and inversion with surface and vertical logging are worth considering.
Prof. Dr. Yun Wang
Dr. Shoudong Huo
Prof. Dr. Guofeng Liu
Prof. Dr. Zhengyong Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral seismic
- compressive sensing
- artificial intelligence
- multi-component seismic
- active seismic
- passive seismic
- joint imaging and inversion
- integrated geophysics
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