Structural Geology & Resources 2022

16 October 2022

Mineral Systems as Chemical Reactors with No Mathematics

Timetable for Kalgoorlie workshop. 

Expectations

9:00   Start up : Summary

9.15-9.45: Irregular data.

9.45-10.30 : Mineral systems.

What is a mineral system?

Coupled nonlinear processes.

Takens’ theorem. The concept that in a system all processes are interdependent and related. The information in one data set encodes all the data on the system.   Some examples using EXCEL. Periodic, quasiperiodic, chaotic signals and attractors.

10.30-10.45 : Coffee.

10.45-12.30: The nonlinear toolbox.

Wavelets and multifractals. Long range correlations.

Recurrence

Probability distributions.

12:30-13:15: Lunch.

13.15-14.15: An example. Sunrise Dam.

14.15-15.00: Other examples. Pb Zn; Regional distributions.

15.00-15.30: Coffee.

15.30-17.00: Application to regional exploration.