Geochemical prospection

R. W. Boyle, Geochemical Prospecting for Thorium and Uranium Deposits, p. 498, Elsevier, New York,... 

Garrett, R.G. 1983. Sampling Methodology. In Howarth, R.J. (ed.), Handbook of Exploration Geochemistry, Vol.2, Statistics and Data Analysis in Geochemical Prospecting. Elsevier, 83-110. 

Hawkes, H. E., Bibliography on Geochemical Prospecting, Third Inter-... 

Boyle RW. 1968. Geochemistry of silver and its deposit notes on geochemical prospecting for the element. Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa, Ont Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. 160., 1-96. 

Boyle, R.W. and Jonasson, I.R. (1973) Geochemistry of arsenic and its use as indicator element in geochemical prospecting. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2(3), 251-96. 

Ginzburg, I. I. (1960). Principles of Geochemical Prospecting (Translation from Russian). 311 p. 

Sinclair, A. J. (1983). Univariate Analysis. 57-81 in Statistics and Data Analysis in Geochemical Prospecting. In Handbook ofExploration Geochemistry (R. J. Howarth, ed.), Vol. 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

AAS is widely used in geochemical prospection where a special accessory, the graphite cell, was recently introduced. Elements down to 10 13 g can be determined by this accessory. A less widely applied technique is atomic fluorescence, which gives especially good results for certain elements. 

A direct link with medical applications is demonstrated by a Memoir of the Geological Society of America on Environmental Geochemistry in Health and Disease (Cannon and Hopps, 1971) many routine techniques used in geochemical prospecting can with slight modifications be extended to the study of geomedical problems. 

Bolviken, B. A statistical approach to the problem of interpretation in geochemical prospecting, pp. 564-567. Toronto The Canad. Inst, of Mining and Metallurgy, Spec. Vol. 11 Geochemical Exploration (1971). 

The association of minerals and coal can be used in mineral exploration. Although the concentration of elements in coal may not be economic, it may indicate the presense of nearby mineralization. Coal may thus be used as a geochemical prospecting tool to locate economic mineral deposits. Finkelman and Brown (1991) noted the remarkable high silver content (500 ppm in the ash) in a central Texas bituminous coal and suggested that this anomalously high silver... 

Bray E. E. (1956b) Method of geochemical prospecting. US Patent 2,773,991. 

Donovan T. J. (1981) Geochemical prospecting for oil and gas from orbital and suborbital altitudes. In Unconventional Methods in Exploration for Petroleum and Natural gas II (ed. B. M. Gottlieb). Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, pp. 96-115. 

Horvitz L. (1972) Vegetation and geochemical prospecting for petroleum. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 56, 925-940. 

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