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GEOCHEMICAL SOIL SURVEY [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Geochemical Prospecting
DEF

The process of collecting and analysing unconsolidated soil sediments in order to locate geochemical anomalies in the underlying rock and to use these to find ore bodies.

CONT

In regional geochemical soil and silt sampling surveys, samples of conventional size are less effective in detecting the dominantly particulate scheelite than are bulk samples of alluvium ... reduced to a heavy mineral concentrate.

OBS

geochemical survey: ... this expression may be further modified by indicating specifically the material sampled, as, for example, geochemical soil survey.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Prospection géochimique

Spanish

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