Prospecting For Magnetite Ore Deposits With A Innovative Sensor's of Unique Fundamentally New Magnetometer.
Abstract
After careful study of principles and abilities of all existing magnetmeters of all three revolutions in magnetic prospecting we have come to the conclusion that they cannot solve local guestions of the magnetic prospecting or determine centre coordinates of magnetite ore body before drilling Electromagnetism lows and achievents magnetprospectings and radioelectronics of all 20th century serve as a theoretical base of the "locator". While creating this cardinally new magnetmeter , we borrowed different things from radio-prospectors, magnetprospectors, wireless operators and combined all of them while creating the "locators''. The "locators' construction is bas ed on the "magnetic intensification" principle ,owing to which this "locators" are characterised by hight sensitiveness and ability to determine centers of even little commercial magnetite ore deposits with relatively weak magnetic anomalies. The main advantage of the "locators" over existing ones is that it can solve local questions determine centre coordinates. A remarkably simple locator construction determine direction of the on-surface measurings towards the ore body centre and gives approximate prognosis resourses before/withour/ drilling. The "locators" were worked out for the first time in history , they have 2 licences. The fundamental design and drawbacks of the existing magnetometers have been inherited from the original magnetometre dating back two or three hundred years. The developers of the existing magnetometres have all gone along the same well- beaten track of replacing the primitive sensor in the form of a piece of ore hung on a string at first by an arrow sensor and later by magnetically oriented protons and quanta, with amplification of the sensors' OUTPUT signal. Furthermore, all the existing magnetometres are imperfect in that they, lacking the directivity of the ground-level magnetic measurements, only record the overall magnetic vector field generated by all the ore bodies around the measurement point. The result is often misleading as an intense magnetic anomaly may be registered in a place where is no ore, and vice versa. Such false anomalies and maps may serve as the only guide in iron ore prospecting. The reserves' forecast based on such magnetic maps are also false as they may yield figures exceeding the actual reserves by tens or even hundreds of times. The existing magnetometres are often insufficiently sensitive and incapable of detecting small commercial processable ore bodies with a weak magnetic anomaly (less than 0.1% of the Earth's field). As regards new large iron ore deposits with strong anomalies, the probabilities of encountering them nowadays are becoming increasingly smaller. Confidence in the good performance and the advantages of the new magnetometres patented by the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is based on the following considerations: The anomalies' magnetic field is several times stronger than the magnetic field of the Earth; To cite two historical instances, the Sokolovskoye ore deposit in Kazakhstan was discovered in 1949 not by prospectors but by a civil aviation pilot, M.Surgutanov, using an ordinary airplane compass. The Kursk Magnetic Anomaly was discovered in 1778 by Professor I.Inozemtsev using a piece of ore hung on a string. The magnetometres patented by the MMK team, are based on the electromagnetism laws of Ampere, Ohm, Weber, Maxwell and Tesla. The history of magnetic prospecting can be divided into three periods, each of them preceded by a revolution of sorts. The first one occurred in 1910 when the German scientist Schmidt developed an optic mechanical magnetometre which came to be known in Russia as M-2 or "Fanzelau". The second revolution came about in 1936 with the invention by the Russian scientist A.Logachov of an AM-9L aeromagnetometre. The third revolution happened in 1953 when Pickard in the Unuted States (and Tsyrell in 1957 in the Soviet Union) invented a proton and quantum magnetometre. But, having examined the fundamental principles and the potential of all these types of magnetometres, we can see that they cannot solve the problem of local magnetic prospecting. In particular, they cannot determine the coordinates of the ore body prior to drilling. In devising a fundamentally new magnetometre we have used the experience and achievements of radio and magnetic prospecting and electronics. As already noted, the new magnetometre locator has a much higher sensitivity than most modern magnetometres, which approximates the sensitivity of proton-quantum devices. Thanks to its simple design, the new magnetometre has a sharp measurement directivity towards the centre of even quite small commercially processable ore bodies. Instead of the light pumping, magnetic pumping is used in the new magnetometres. The novelty of the approach consisted in concentrating and amplifying the signal from the ore body BOTH at the INPUT and OUTPUT of the sensor. A research team at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Russia (MMK), has developed and patented fundamentally novel magnetometers and methods of quantitative geochemical forecasting of magnetite ore deposits which allow to cut the costs (by as much as 50%) of locating iron ores at all stages of prospecting. The main advantages of the new magnetometers and the geochemical method over the existing ones are as follows: The possibility, before or even without expensive drilling, of determining the coordinates of principal ore bodies both in the horizontal plane and in depth by the new patented magnetometers with elevated sensitivity and sharp measurement directivity as well as of yielding an estimated forecast of the ore reserves; The possibility of an early quantitative estimate of the ore bodies and the ore deposit as a whole based on the results of a SINGLE BOREHOLE in the centre of the location previously determined by the novel magnetometre in contrast to the conventional quantitative evaluation method requiring dozens of boreholes The preliminary tests of the new magnetometre in the Magnitogosrk iron ore field, in particular, the Zapadny Kuibas deposit, have shown that the centre of the ore body located by means of the magnetometre deviated insignificantly from the results obtained with boreholes. At the Beriozki and Podotvalnoye deposits the new device permitted to correct the reserves and the conditions of the ore bodies' occurrence. In conclusion, we would like to recap the main advantages of the new magnetometre patented by the MMK team (block patents) which consist in the possibility of: determining the coordinates of the ore body's centre both in plan and in depth, BEFORE or WITHOUT DRILLING; forecasting the reserves of the ore deposit also BEFORE or WITHOUT DRILLING. The use of the new magnetometre in combination with the method of early geochemical forecasting of magnetite ore bodies will permit to drastically reduce the cost of iron ore prospecting as it will no longer be necessary to drill dozens of expensive boreholes in accordance with plans and maps which are often erroneous because they were made using the imprecise older type magnetometers. Has developed and patented by JSC"MMK"fundamentally novel magnetometers and methods of quantitative geochemical forecasting of magnetite ore deposits which allow to cut the costs (by as much as 50%) of locating iron ores at all stages of prospecting The "Magnitometer-locators" were worked out for the first time in history,They have 3 licences. Theoretical basis of the "locators" application its practical results presen ted in the report. THIS RESEARCH WAS FINANCED BY RUSSIAN FOND of FUNDAMENTALLY RESEARCH (RFFR, Moscow and "URAL2001" grant 01-05- 96429). REFERENCES Emelianenko T.I.,Tachaytdinov R.S.,Susoeva G.N.Magnetometer(Patent for invention N 2138831 dated 27.09.99.,M.,2000) Emelianenko T.I.,Tachaytdinov R.S.,Susoeva G.N.Magnetometer (Patent for invetation N 2148840 dated 10.05.2000.,M.,2000). Emelianenko T.I.Matveev A.A.Method of erosional truncation level determination(Patent for invention N 2148844 dated 10.05.2000,M.,2000). 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EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002EGSGA..27.2384E