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NON-CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR CONCEALED DEPOSITS

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Non-conventional techniques of exploration specially for concealed mineral deposits, present in any part of the world, require some new approaches that may be applied for this purpose. In this regard, Geological Survey of India through its Field Technique Research Unit (FTRU) tried to develop some new techniques of exploration of concealed mineral deposits since 70s of last century. GSI tried to standardize some such new techniques which will be discussed in this chapter. Most of the mineral deposits of the world are generally not exposed at the earth’s surface. These may be partly or wholly concealed by thick residual soil or buried beneath the rock formation. To locate these deposits, some conventional geochemical exploration techniques are generally employed to locate these deposits based on systematic measurement of one or more chemical property in different sample media like rock, soil, weathered profile, glacial debris, stream sediment, water, plant etc. as described earlier.

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Talapatra, A.K. (2020). NON-CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR CONCEALED DEPOSITS. In: Geochemical Exploration and Modelling of Concealed Mineral Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48756-0_5

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