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Study of the Influence of Non-Deposit Locations in Data-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping: A Case Study on the Iskut Project in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
- Source :
- Minerals (2075-163X); Jun2021, Vol. 11 Issue 6, p597-597, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The accuracy of data-driven predictive mineral prospectivity models relies heavily on the training datasets used. These models are usually trained using data for "known" deposit locations as well as "non-deposit" locations that are based on randomly generated point patterns. In this study, data related to the Seabridge Gold Inc Iskut project, an epithermal Au deposit in northwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada, are used to test the utility of data-driven mineral prospectivity modeling. The input spatial dataset is comprised mostly of publicly available data. Data for 18 vein and epithermal Au known mineral occurrences (KMO) are obtained from the BC Geological Survey's MINFILE repository and selected as training deposit locations. A total of eleven sets of non-deposit locations (NDL) were also created, including one set of selected non-prospective KMO for Au deposits from the MINFILE and ten sets of random point patterns. Given the scale of this study, most of the KMO recorded on the property are of the epithermal deposit type. Hence, they could not be used as a selection criterion. Data-driven mineral potential models are generated using the random forest (RF) algorithm and trained on multiple data sets. The comparison of RF models demonstrated that using non-prospective KMO generates more accurate predictions than the random point pattern. The produced mineral prospectivity maps delineated multiple areas with higher discovery potential, which matched viable targets for the Au-Cu epithermal-porphyry system identified through previous Seabridge Gold Inc. (Toronto, ON, Canada) field reconnaissance and drilling programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MINERALS
RANDOM sets
GEOLOGICAL surveys
ALGORITHMS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2075163X
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Minerals (2075-163X)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151107300
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/min11060597