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Separating the Sungun Copper Deposit Alteration Zones by Applying Artificial Neural Network

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Mining Engineering Department, Metallurgy and Petroleum , Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2 Mining Engineering Department, Metallurgy and Petroleum , Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

3 Mining Engineering Department, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran.

Abstract

Separation of alteration zones is one of the important processes in evaluation and identification of mining activities that provide great help to have better view of the region and its mineralization. Most of the alteration separation is based on petrological investigations and the other methods are less applied. Therefore, in this research, there is an attempt by applying RBPNN (Radial Basis Probabilistic Neural Network) to separate these alteration zones. Because of the special structure and easy designing of these networks, they are usually capable to solve the classification problem. The input data were 28 element analyses related to 45 geochemical samples and its outputs were classified alteration zones (potassic, transition, phyllic) that was coding for every inputs data. After selection the training and testing data, the network has been prepared for training and then the data were inputs and the results were outputs. According to the results, the network could distinguish the difficult spatial relation between the inputs, with 28 spatial variables and classify those correctly. The calculated MSE (Mean Square Error) is 0.0163, which shows the good performance of network in this field.

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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences
Volume 20, Issue 77
January 2010
Pages 41-46
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