Volume 8, Number 3 (1981)
Articles

Remote Sensing in Mineral Exploration Case Histories

J. A. E. Allum
Inco Metals Company, Toronto, Ontario.

Published 1981-08-08

How to Cite

Allum, J. A. E. (1981). Remote Sensing in Mineral Exploration Case Histories. Geoscience Canada, 8(3). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/GC/article/view/3253

Abstract

Situations are discussed in which remote sensing has helped in the exploration for silver, fluorite, gold, bauxite, ilmenite, and nickel. It is shown that remote sensing can be a specific tool, in tropical rainforest terrains, for the exploration for nickel-laterite deposits. It is also shown that the combined use of an airborne gamma-ray survey with the interpretation of a satellite image is an effective method of exploring for heavy-mineral sands.