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Application of the Matched Filtering Method to Study the Stream Sediment Geochemistry and Prospecting Prediction of the Baiyun Gold Deposit, Qingchengzi Ore Field, China

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The alteration formed by the reaction of ore-bearing fluid and wall rock is often used as an important prospecting indicator, resulting in the dilution or enrichment of metals or related trace elements. A variety of rock-forming and metallogenic elements have been analyzed in regional stream sediments so that the relationship between the ore-bearing altered rock and the change in the geochemical elemental content can be obtained. Therefore, by using appropriate models, such as matched filtering, the abundance of the distribution of wall rock alteration, similar to the discovered deposits, can be modeled by using the distribution of geochemical elements in the region, and the areas with high distribution abundances are usually favorable prospecting targets. The alteration types related to gold mineralization in the Baiyun gold deposit are potassium feldspar alteration, silicification, pyritization, sericitization, and chloritization. In this paper, the geochemical data of the Qingchengzi ore field (1:200,000 and 1:50,000) have been used to form geochemical images through rasterization. In the three sections of the Baiyun gold deposit, binary-coded curves have been formed, revealing the differences in geochemical elements in stream sediments between altered rocks and the rocks surrounding the Baiyun gold mine. Among them, Au, W, and Mo are enriched elements, while Sn, Zn, and Hg are depleted elements. Several gold deposits are found in the predicted altered rock area by using the matched filtering method during fieldwork, which shows the effectiveness of the method.

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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to interests related to mineral prospecting, but are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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The research was jointly supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan (Grant Nos. 2016YFC0600108-09-01 and 2018YFC0603804) and the project of the “Geology of mineral resources in China” from the China Geological Survey (Grant Nos. DD20160346 and DD20190379).

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  2. Shenyang Geological Survey Center, China Geology Survey, Shenyang, 110034, China

    Jiang Chen, Fengchao Yang, Xiaoyan Chen & Chunhui Zhang

  3. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade, 101350, Copenhagen K, Denmark

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  4. College of Geoexploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130026, China

    Hang Dong

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Chen, J., Yang, F., Bedini, E. et al. Application of the Matched Filtering Method to Study the Stream Sediment Geochemistry and Prospecting Prediction of the Baiyun Gold Deposit, Qingchengzi Ore Field, China. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 41, 379–394 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-023-00912-0

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