Geophysical Exploration of a Historical Stamp Mill Dump for the Volume Estimation of Valuable Residues

Description

Historical mining dumps are of increasing interest due to economic, environmental or archaeological reasons. Geophysical investigations can help accessing the potential reuse of the remaining material to recover metallic raw material or it can be used for the estimation of the hazard potential from the buried material due to dissolution occurrence. In our study, we present an approach for the estimation of ore processing residue volumes in a historical mine waste dump by combining electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), ground penetrating radar (GPR) and spectral induced polarization (SIP) flanked by mineralogical studies. That enabled us to distinguish between valuable and non-valuable waste material and to calculate the volume of the ore processing residues, which can be used further for the determination of the economic potential from the remaining metal content.

Period	2022 Jan 12
Event title	Talk About Geophysics! EEGS’ Monthly Educational Webinar Series: TAG Webinar Series
Event type	Seminar
Location	United StatesShow on map