In‐mine (tunnel‐to‐tunnel) electrical resistance tomography in South African platinum mines

M Van Schoor, A Binley - Near Surface Geophysics, 2010 - earthdoc.org
The applicability of tunnel‐to‐tunnel electrical resistance tomography (ERT) for imaging
disruptive geological structures ahead of mining, in an igneous platinum mining …

Suppressing reflected guided waves from contaminated borehole radar data

J Huo, B Zhou, Q Zhao, I Mason - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In borehole radar (BHR) surveys, if the radar is either suspended by a conductive
communication cable or run in a conductive water, guided waves may be induced. When …

Successful application of ground‐penetrating radar in the exploration of gem tourmaline pegmatites of southern California

JE Patterson, FA Cook - Geophysical Prospecting, 2002 - earthdoc.org
Application of ground‐penetrating radar has been successful in delineating gem‐bearing
zones in the Himalaya pegmatite mine of the Mesa Grande district of southern California …

Energy flow domain reverse-time migration for borehole radar

J Huo, Q Zhao, B Zhou, L Liu, C Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A modified 2-D reverse-time migration algorithm in the energy flow domain, called EF-RTM,
is proposed for short impulse borehole radar (BHR) imaging. The key of the approach is …

Borehole radar delineation of the Ventersdorp Contact Reef in three dimensions

P du Pisani, D Vogt - Exploration Geophysics, 2004 - CSIRO Publishing
A large portion of South Africa? s gold reserve comes from the Ventersdorp Contact Reef
(VCR). The VCR is a thin, tabular ore body, generally less than 1.2 m thick. The geometry of …

A borehole radar system for South African gold and platinum mines

D Vogt - South African Journal of Geology, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Borehole radar is an electromagnetic tool that can be applied to assist in the delineation of
orebody geometry, ideally using routinely drilled cover and exploration boreholes …

[图书][B] Deep-Level Gold and Platinum Mining: The Application of Geophysics in South Africa

M Van Schoor, Z Nkosi, F Magweregwede, T Kgarume - 2022 - books.google.com
This book provides the basic know-how and guidance to effectively exploit non-destructive
geophysical technologies and apply them in the underground mining environment to …

Can we obtain invasion depth with directional borehole radar?

WM Heigl, M Peeters - Petrophysics-The SPWLA Journal of Formation …, 2005 - onepetro.org
We examine whether directional borehole radar while drilling is a feasible method to detect
the fluid interface that forms when mud filtrate invades a permeable layer. This interface …

Borehole radar delineation of the VCR: An economically important sedimentary deposit

D Vogt, P du Pisani - … of the Tenth International Conference on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been shown previously that borehole radar is a suitable tool for mapping the
Ventersdorp Contact Reef (VCR) and other thin tabular orebodies in South African gold and …

A FDTD modeling approach to investigate critical refraction from crosswell radar

DF Rucker - Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, 2011 - library.seg.org
First arrival travel times (FATTs) from critically refracted waves in crosswell radar
applications have been known to cause incorrect estimates of electromagnetic wave …