In Kimberlite Exploration, one extensively uses geophysical techniques for location the same. I am interested to know, the present state of art in data integration and GIS and remote sensing studies.
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A "bull's eye" magnetic anomaly roughly 0.5 to 1 km across from aerial magnetic surveys would be a good place to test for kimberlite. It should be in an area underlain by Precambrian crust. My exploration group did just that and recovered kimberlite in a new area (N. America).
Chandra Hello
As I know, practically all geophysical methods (excluding magnetotelluric sounding and some seismic modifications) can be used in kimberlite exploration. Even such a rarely applied method as piezoelectric (seismoelectric) survey was successfully applied for delineation of kimberlite pipes in Yakutia (Russia).
Often kimberlite pipes produce ring anomalies (e.g. in magnetic and gravity fields). For revealing ring structure anomalies against noise background different processing methods are developed - see, for instance, in the RG DataBase
Eppelbaum, L.V., 2007. Localization of Ring Structures in Earth’s Environments. Jour. of the Archaeological Soc. of the Slovakian Acad. of Sci., Spec. Issue: Arch. Prosp., XLI, 145-148.
Eppelbaum, L.V. and Mishne, A.R., 2011. Unmanned Airborne Magnetic and VLF investigations: Effective Geophysical Methodology of the Near Future. Positioning, 2, No. 3, 112-133.
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Lev
I am sorry that now a days people are thinking RS and GIS will be the solution for anything and everything. These are data based or indirect techniques with their own inherent limitations. So, kindly consider only the geophysical techniques like what Dr. Lev and Dr. Issigonis, have suggested, like Magnetic and Gravity surveys. Good luck.
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