Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan

This investigation used Landsat 8 data for mapping lithological units and alteration zones to detect high potential areas for gold mineralization in Red Sea Hills in Sudan part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS). The study area contains three gold mines part of Ariab mining district in Red Sea Hills...

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Main Author:	Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48842/25/AhmedSalahOsmanMFGHT2014.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.488422020-06-30T02:54:37Z Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan 2014-06 Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing This investigation used Landsat 8 data for mapping lithological units and alteration zones to detect high potential areas for gold mineralization in Red Sea Hills in Sudan part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS). The study area contains three gold mines part of Ariab mining district in Red Sea Hills, Northeastern Sudan. There are three types of gold deposits in the study area (Supergene deposits, polymetallic massive sulphide deposits and The Ganaet deposits) are being mined in Hadal Auatib mine, Hassai mine and Kamoeb mine. The objective of this study was to find new high potential areas for gold mineralization in the area. Color composite, band ratio, principle component analysis, directional filtering, minimum noise fraction (MNF), spectral angle mapper (SAM), matched filtering (MF) and Mixture-Tuned Matched-Filtering (MTMF) were used for geological mapping in this study. The results of this study showed the distribution of the lithological units and the hydrothermal alteration zones along with new high potential areas for gold mineralization which can be used in the future and proved the ability of Landsat data in mapping these feature. The results indicate that Landsat 8 data are capable to identify lithological units and alteration zones at a regional scale. However the identification of specific hydrothermal alteration zone is not feasible. High potential areas have been identified in the study area. Fieldwork verified the image processing results. 2014-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48842/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48842/25/AhmedSalahOsmanMFGHT2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:90546 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
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topic	G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
spellingShingle	G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
description	This investigation used Landsat 8 data for mapping lithological units and alteration zones to detect high potential areas for gold mineralization in Red Sea Hills in Sudan part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS). The study area contains three gold mines part of Ariab mining district in Red Sea Hills, Northeastern Sudan. There are three types of gold deposits in the study area (Supergene deposits, polymetallic massive sulphide deposits and The Ganaet deposits) are being mined in Hadal Auatib mine, Hassai mine and Kamoeb mine. The objective of this study was to find new high potential areas for gold mineralization in the area. Color composite, band ratio, principle component analysis, directional filtering, minimum noise fraction (MNF), spectral angle mapper (SAM), matched filtering (MF) and Mixture-Tuned Matched-Filtering (MTMF) were used for geological mapping in this study. The results of this study showed the distribution of the lithological units and the hydrothermal alteration zones along with new high potential areas for gold mineralization which can be used in the future and proved the ability of Landsat data in mapping these feature. The results indicate that Landsat 8 data are capable to identify lithological units and alteration zones at a regional scale. However the identification of specific hydrothermal alteration zone is not feasible. High potential areas have been identified in the study area. Fieldwork verified the image processing results.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah
author_facet	Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah
author_sort	Osman Ali, Ahmed Salah
title	Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
title_short	Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
title_full	Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
title_fullStr	Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
title_full_unstemmed	Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan
title_sort	detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using landsat 8 data in northeastern sudan
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
granting_department	Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48842/25/AhmedSalahOsmanMFGHT2014.pdf
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Detection of high potential gold mineralization areas using Landsat 8 data in Northeastern Sudan

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