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Georeference Online Ltd (GOL) has begun the systematic
compilation of MineMatch descriptions to serve as a companion
resource to GEODE's LODE database, and to make the LODE database more
relevant to MineMatch users outside Europe..
Translations of GEODE descriptions
into MineMatch have been completed for all 5 collections of
mineral deposits:
Basin-Hosted Collection
SW Variscides Collection
Urals Collection
Fennoscandian Collection
Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaride Belt
Collection
Click
here to view a list of the 70 deposits in these collections
with links to:
(1) Their
MineMatch descriptions;
(2) Diagrams of the descriptions;
(3) Similarity-Rankings with respect
to 95
USGS and
BCGS mineral
deposit models;
(4) Detailed Comparisons with one
or more of the best-fit models
(provisional);
(5) Similarity-Rankings with respect
to all other 69 deposits in the
LODE collection;
(6) Detailed Comparisons with one
or more of the best-matching deposits
(provisional).
(To
view an individual example, click
here
to see the Outokumpu (Finland) description, and
here to see a diagram of
its description. The diagram requires that Adobe's free
SVGViewer plug-in be installed in the viewing browser.)
The descriptions may be downloaded for use in
MineMatch via the "Description Downloads"
button in the left margin of this page.
Useful though they may be, these descriptions are too
general for serious comparative orebody studies. They are
also too general to fully
exploit MineMatch's descriptive capabilities, and powerful
matching algorithms. Consequently, GOL would like to enhance the MineMatch
descriptions of these deposits.
To this end, GOL is now offering specially priced
academic licences of MineMatch to any group of two or more geologists studying any of
the deposits described on the GEODE website. A condition of these
licences is that the purchasers will provide GOL with at least six quality MineMatch deposit descriptions within six months of
receipt of the licences. Examination of the very general MineMatch
description of the Outokumpu and Kiruna deposits alongside this paragraph illustrates how much can be
achieved in one or two hours of working with MineMatch. Good quality descriptions, if being
entered by a geologist familiar with a deposit, take no more than
half a day.
Should you be interested in receiving one of these
special licences, please contact
Clinton Smyth at Georeference Online Ltd. |
GEODE is a scientific program of the European Science Foundation
addressing geodynamics and ore deposit evolution.
The
GEODE website includes summary descriptions of many of the largest
mineral deposits in Europe - the primary merits of which are
the maps, sections and photographs that are included with many of the
descriptions.
Any systematic study of these deposits would naturally
involve more detailed descriptions of the deposits, and detailed
comparisons between the deposits. This requires careful attention to
terminology.
MineMatch descriptions are helpful in both of
these respects: They adhere to strict, internationally respected
terminology standards, and they enable rapid, computer-assisted
comparisons which produce valuable,
easily-audited similarity rankings, and other useful hardcopy outputs.
Moreover, MineMatch descriptions are easily
shared, and therefore provide an ideal medium for collaborative
research and knowledge distribution.
The online MineMatch tutorial provides the best
introduction to MineMatch, and the illustrations below show the
results of using the system:
(1)
Web page output of
MineMatch description of Outokumpu
(2) Semantic Net diagram of the description of
Outokumpu
(3)
MineMatch ranking of
Outukumpu against
USGS Deposit Types
(4) Comparison of Outokumpu attributes against USGS models
for
(a)
Limassol Forest Co-Ni
(b)
Broken Hill
(1) Web page output of
MineMatch description of Kiruna
(2) Semantic Net diagram of the description of
Kiruna
(3)
MineMatch ranking of
Kiruna against
USGS Deposit Types
(4) Comparison of Kiruna attributes against USGS models for
(a)
Hot Spring Au-Ag
(b)
Volcanic-Hosted Magnetite.
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