WP5 Testing and validation
All MinExTarget’s heavy mineral data and interpretations will be analysed and displayed on interactive maps that contain a mineralisation-structural-geomorphology-exploration context. Interpretation of multivariate components and clustering can then be conducted geospatially, to build a predictive methodology for extrapolating detrital mineral signatures towards undiscovered mineral occurrences. The GIS format database is simple and easy to search, and will be designed so that a variety of end-users (researchers, industry explorers, and investors) can easily visualise and extract information pertinent to their specific exploration or data questions.
One of the aims is also to determine statistical geochemical signatures for different kind of deposits based on heavy mineral compositions and then use the result for recognizing the corresponding footprints in the heavy mineral fractions of till/stream sediment samples.
