Z-Tem (Airborne Afmag) tests over unconformity uranium deposits

Bob Lo; Jean Legault; Petr Kuzmin; Magdel Combrinck

doi:10.1071/ASEG2009ab054

ISSN: 2202-0586
E-ISSN:

oa Z-Tem (Airborne Afmag) tests over unconformity uranium deposits
Authors Bob Lo^a, Jean Legault^b, Petr Kuzmin^c and Magdel Combrinck^d
View Affiliations Hide Affiliations

^a Exploration Syndicate, Inc., , [email protected] ^b Geotech Ltd., , [email protected] ^c Geo Equipment Manufacturing Ltd., , [email protected] ^d Geotech Ltd, , [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2009, Issue ASEG2009 - 20th Geophysical Conference, Dec 2009, p. 1 - 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2009ab054
- Published online: 01 Dec 2009

Abstract

Introduction

A series of demonstration tests were conducted using the Z-TEM, airborne AFMAG system over deep targets in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada. These tests were conducted in mid-2008 and were flown to test Z-TEM’s ability to detect large conductive targets at depth; deeper than conventional airborne EM methods. Data are presented over areas where the conductors are located 800 metres beneath the surface. As well, a case of Z-TEM following the plunge of a conductor to over 800 metres depth is shown.

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1071/ASEG2009ab054

2009-12-01

2026-01-19

From This Site

/content/journals/10.1071/ASEG2009ab054

dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword

-contentType:Journal -contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution

10

5

Full text loading...

References

Labson, V. F., Becker A, Morrison, H. F., and Conti, U., 1985, Geophysical exploration with audiofrequency natural magnetic fields, Geophysics, Vol. 50, pp. 656-664.
Lo, B., Zang, M., Kuzmin, P., 2008, Geotech’s Z-TEM (Airborne AFMAG) Instrumentation, a paper presented at KEGS PD AC 2008 Symposium, Toronto.
Mabhews, R., Koch, R. and Leppin, M., 1997, Advances in Integrated Exploration for Unconformity Uranium Deposits in Western Canada; in Proceeding of Exploration 97, edited by Arnis Gubins, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Toronto.
McMullan, S.R., Mabhews, R.B, and Robertshaw, P., 1990, Exploration geophysics for Athabasca Uranium Deposits, in: Proceedings of Exploration 87, Ontario Geological Survey.
Pedersen, L.B, Qian, W., Dynesius, L., Zhang, P., 1994, An airborne tensor VLF system. From concept to realization, Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 42.
Ruzicka, V.R., 1997, Metallogenic features of the uranium-polymetallic mineralization of the Athabasca Basin, Alberta, and a comparison with other parts of die basin; in R.W. Macqueen, ed., Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 500, 31-79.
Wheatley, K., Murphy, J., Leppin, M., and Climie, J.A., 1996, Advances in the Genetic Model and Exploration Techniques for Unconformity-type Uranium Deposits in the Athabasca Basin; in Ashton, K.E., Harper, C.T., eds., MinExpo ’96 Symposium - Advances in Saskatchewan Geology and Mineral Exploration: Saskatchewan Geological Society, Special Publication No 14, p. 126-136.
Quirt, D., 1989, Host rock alteration at Eagle Point South: Sask. Research Council, Publication no. R-855-1-E-89, 95p.
Ward, S. H., 1959, AFMAG - Airborne and Ground: Geophysics, Vol. 24, pp. 761-787.
Zang, M., Lo, B., 2008, The Application of Airborne Natural Field Electromagnetics (Z-TEM): Some Examples from the Southwestern United States, a paper presented at the 2008 PDAC, Toronto.

/content/journals/10.1071/ASEG2009ab054

Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): AFMAG; airborne; Athabasca.; electromagnetic; uranium; Z-TEM

Most Cited This Month Most Cited RSS feed

- Inversion of data from electrical imaging surveys in water-covered areas
  
  Authors M. H. Loke and J. W. Lane
- Inversion of Magnetic Data from Remanent and Induced Sources
  
  Authors Robert G. Elllis, Barrry de Wet and Ian N. Macleod
- A comparison of smooth and blocky inversion methods in 2-D electrical imaging surveys
  
  Authors M. H. Loke, Ian Acworth and Torleif Dahlin
- Designing matched bandpass and azimuthal filters for the separation of potential-field anomalies by source region and source type
  
  Authors Jeffrey D. Phillips
- Bad Colour Maps Hide Big Features and Create False Anomalies
  
  Authors Peter Kovesi
- Practical 3D EM inversion – the P223F software suite
  
  Authors Art Raiche, Fred Sugeng and Glenn Wilson
- Estimating Noise Levels in AEM Data
  
  Authors Andy Green and Richard Lane
- Target delineation using Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry data
  
  Authors Colm A. Murphy and James Brewster
- Transdimensional Monte Carlo Inversion of AEM Data
  
  Authors Ross C Brodie and Malcolm Sambridge
- The geotech VTEM time domain helicopter em system
  
  Authors Ken Witherly, Richard Irvine and Edward Morrison
More Less

oa Z-Tem (Airborne Afmag) tests over unconformity uranium deposits

Abstract

Most Read This Month

Most Cited This Month Most Cited RSS feed