A short course on the why, how, and what of geophysical inversion
Presented by the B.C. Geophysical Society
Date: April 24th – 26th 2013
Address: SFU Downtown Campus; Vancouver BC
Registration: Registration is now open! Please fill out attached pdf form (link below) and click submit. Registration will be complete once payment is made via Paypal link. Delegates are asked to choose one workshop day among April 25th or 26th.
Day 1 – Presentations
Introduction to inversion in exploration
- Reasons for doing inversion
- Range of inversion options: magnetics, gravity, EM, IP-resistivity, seismic
- Fitting geology and data
Background on inversion
- Unconstrained/constrained
- Joint and collaborative
- The future of inversion
Before inversion – forward modeling
- forward modeling
- petrophysics drives the story
- complexity vs. adequacy
Case studies
- Potential fields
- EM
- IP-resistivity
Day 2 – Workshop with Case Studies
Multi-disciplinary teams will use geological, geophysical and geochemical data from two deposits (Babine Lake porphyry Cu-Mo, BC and Minto Cu, YK) to develop exploration targets. Teams will present their evaluations of the data to stimulate group discussion.
Inversion results for the available geophysical surveys will be presented to demonstrate state-of-the-art technology (http://geosoft.com/, http://www.mirageoscience.com/) and best practices.
| Sponsors for the short course are currently being solicited. Please contact Victoria Sterritt at Victoria.Sterritt@teck.com for details. Proceeds go to the KEGS Foundation. |
| For those interested in more information about the short course, please email info@bcgsonline.org |
The BCGS would like to thank RedTail Metals and Capstone Mining Corp. for providing access to the Babine Lake and Minto data sets.