Khunik gold prospecting area is located in the eastern part of Lut block, eastern Iran. Main rock units are andesite, agglomerate, latite, dacitic lava, rhyodacite, volcanic breccia and conglomerate. Geological and geochemical evidences indicate low to medium sulfide gold mineralization. Mining activates accumulate heavy metals in soil and water that are associated with harmful effects […]
The prospecting area is located in the eastern part of Iran. Aster and Landsat 8 satellite images were processed with different spectral analyses techniques to detect the clay representing the alteration zones, with emphasis on bentonite occurrences in the study area. Band ratio (BR), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Mixture Tuned Matched Filtering (MTMF), Principal Component […]
