EXPLORE: Issues

The AAG is in the process of attributing Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to the science/technical articles published in the EXPLORE newsletter. This attribution is progressing from the current/latest EXPLORE issue to older ones.

Download a spreadsheet listing all the science articles published in EXPLORE since 1987 in xls format or csv format.

2025

Issue 206, March
-full issue
-science article:

2024

Issue 205, December
-full issue
-no science article

Issue 204, September
-full issue
-science article: The use of bulk cyanide leach in gold assays of drill core and rock samples

Issue 203, June
-full issue
-science article: Indicator minerals for lithium exploration in glaciated terrain

Issue 202, March
-full issue
-science article: Heavy mineral exploration on the continental scale

2023

Issue 201, December
-full issue
-science article: Inverting the missing SiO2 and LOI contents in the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes datasets

Issue 200, September
-full issue
-science article: Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) detectORE™ analysis for Au in soils from the Archean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Issue 199, June
-full issue
-science article: The log transformation explained

Issue 198, March
-full issue
-science article: Old soils, new targets: Reassessing historic soil surveys with Ultrafine+® in a machine-learned landscape context

2022

Issue 197, December
-full issue
-science article: New era of geochemical surveys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Issue 196, September
-full issue
-science article: Standardization of field-portable short-wave infrared processing for mineral exploration (Download Appendix A, Appendix B, and Guide as a 6.7 MB zip file)

Issue 195, June
-full issue
-science article: Whole-rock geochemistry for intrusion-hosted magmatic Ni-Cu-Co exploration: identifying prospective host rocks

Issue 194, March
-full issue
-science article: Lithium analysis of brines and minerals for exploration and resource definition

2021

Issue 193, December
-full issue
-science article: Breathing new life into assay data using machine learning methods

Issue 192, September
-full issue
-science article: Geochemistry of LCT pegmatites in part of northeastern Nasarawa state, northcentral Nigeria

Issue 191, June
-full issue
-science article: Integration of geochemical and mineralogical data: an example from the Central Victorian Goldfields, Australia

Issue 190, March
-full issue
-science article: Sinclair: Australia's first caesium deposit: discovery and exploration implications
-science article: Recent applied geochemistry research in Africa contributed towards understanding causal cofactors of diseases of unknown aetiology
-science article: Minor elements - the middle child between petrochemistry and geochemistry

2020

Issue 189, December
-full issue
-science article: Measurement of seasonal variations in stream water chemistry using a portable photometer: case histories from central and southwestern British Columbia, Canada

Issue 188, September
-full issue
-science article: Cesium deposits
-science article: The Taron cesium-thallium epithermal geyserite deposit, Salta Province, Argentina

Issue 187, June
-full issue
-science article: Exploring for laterally transported copper in gravels using radon detectors

Issue 186, March
-full issue
-science article: Testing a rapid sampling and analysis workflow in the remote Nullarbor Plain, Australia

2019

Issue 185, December
-full issue
-science article: Why minus 80 mesh?
-science article: Petrological and geochemical study of the Precambrian basement complex rocks in Katchuan Irruan areas, southeast of Ogoja, Southeastern Nigeria

Issue 184, September
-full issue
-science article: Rapid hydrogeochemistry: a summary of two field studies from central and southern interior British Columbia, Canada using a photometer and voltammeter to measure trace elements in water

Issue 183, June
-full issue
-science article: Gold dispersion in transported cover sequences especially in chemical (palaeoredox front) and physical (unconformity) interfaces linked to the landscape history of Western Australia

Issue 182, March
-full issue
-science article: Application of Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR) for mineral quantification

2018

Issue 181, December
-full issue
-science article: New base metal mineral potential in southern Northwest Territories, Canada

Issue 180, September
-full issue
-science article: Lithogeochemical classification of hydrothermally altered Paleoproterozoic plutonic rocks associated with gold mineralization: examples from the Nanortalik Gold Belt of South Greenland and the “Gold Line” of northern Sweden

Issue 179, June
-full issue
-science article: Catchment analysis of re-analyzed regional stream sediment geochemical data from the Yukon

Issue 178, March
-full issue
-science article: Seaweed as an exploration medium along the inlets of British Columbia – part 2: chemical variations and long-term changes – Howe Sound (Open Appendix A as a PDF file)
-science article: The search for gold in Greenland

EXPLORE: Issues

The AAG is in the process of attributing Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to the science/technical articles published in the EXPLORE newsletter. This attribution is progressing from the current/latest EXPLORE issue to older ones.

Download a spreadsheet listing all the science articles published in EXPLORE since 1987 in xls format or csv format.

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