三维成矿定量预测系统设计与应用实例研究

隐伏矿体三维成矿定量预测是以多元地学大数据为基础的矿产预测新技术与方法。本文基于隐伏矿体三维成矿定量预测的实际需要及相关方法步骤,采用集成二次开发的方式,设计实现了一套可在三维环境下基于大数据开展定量化成矿预测工作的软件系统。本文阐述了系统的总体架构及开发方式,并对系统中各个功能模块的设计及实现过程进行详细阐述。系统融合了当前三维成矿定量预测研究的最新方法及成果,内含数据库管理、三维地球物理正演、三维空间分析以及三维预测评价等功能模块,能够对多元地学大数据进行集成和分析预测。为了验证系统的适用性和有效性,该系统被应用于长江中下游成矿带钟姑矿田三维成矿定量预测研究,相关成果表明系统的建立不但能够深化和发展三维成矿预测理论,也为新时期基于大数据的隐伏矿体找矿勘探工作提供了新方法及有力工具。     

三维地质模型不确定性分析及对三维成矿预测结果的影响解析

三维地质模型是三维成矿预测最重要的数据基础之一,其准确性对于深部预测靶区的圈定具有十分重要的意义。然而,三维地质模型存在一定程度的不确定性,其不确定性主要是受到地质体与地质结构自身的复杂性,数据密度、误差和建模方法等多方面影响。本文以长江中下游成矿带钟姑矿田为例,基于隐式三维地质建模及蒙特卡洛模拟方法,对控制剖面中地质界线产状引起的三维地质模型的不确定性开展定量分析,并度量和评价其对三维成矿预测结果的影响。研究结果显示,深部地质界线的产状倾角及倾向变化会导致三维地质模型产生不同程度的不确定性。通过扰动策略,能够有效开展相关的不确定性分析和度量工作;三维地质模型的不确定性会在一定程度上影响三维成矿预测结果,但三维成矿预测方法具有一定的鲁棒性,基于预测结果圈定的找矿靶区位置相对稳定。对于具有较高不确定性的深部预测靶区,进一步工作可通过降低三维地质模型的不确定性或增加其他预测信息等方式,提高预测结果的确定性,以降低找矿勘探风险。     

三维成矿预测多源地学空间数据库建设——以宁芜盆地钟姑矿田为例

大数据是海量、高增长率和多样化的信息资产,是未来找矿靶区预测的不可或缺的技术。大数据-三维成矿预测研究面临机遇与挑战,其涉及的地学大数据除了数据来源众多、比例尺不同、数据量大、非结构化管理、时效性强、空间数据与非空间数据协同管理等复杂特点外,还必须具有适应进行三维建模及空间分析的数据结构。本文分析了地学空间大数据的特点,对多源地学综合信息的管理需求进行研究,参考国家及行业标准,建立了可满足三维成矿预测需求的多源地学空间数据库模型,并依据实际划分为勘查控制钻孔地质数据库、空间属性数据库和地球物理数据库,各数据库可在多源地学空间索引库的支持下协同工作。本文以大数据应用的典型实例--钟姑矿田作为研究对象,系统收集了矿田内勘查成果资料,建立了钟姑矿田多源地学空间数据库,并在此基础上进行了控矿要素的有效提取,可进一步支持三维成矿预测。研究结果表明,本文提出的多源地学空间数据库可有效管理地学空间大数据,是大数据-三维成矿预测的重要解决方案,是进行三维成矿预测的重要数据支持。     

机器学习与成矿预测:以闽西南铁多金属矿预测为例

作为近年来爆炸式发展的方法模型,机器学习为地质找矿提供了新的思维和研究方法。本文探讨矿产预测研究的理论方法体系,总结机器学习在矿产预测领域的特征信息提取和信息综合集成两个方面的应用现状,并讨论机器学习在矿产资源定量预测领域面临的训练样本稀少且不均衡、模型训练中缺乏不确定性评估、缺少反哺研究、方法选择等困难和挑战。进一步以闽西南马坑式铁矿为实例论述基于机器学习方法的矿产预测基本流程:(1)通过成矿系统研究建立成矿模型,确定矿床控矿要素;(2)通过勘查系统研究建立找矿模型,并为评价预测提供相关的勘查数据;(3)通过预测评价系统研究,建立预测模型,并提取预测要素;(4)利用机器学习模型对预测要素进行信息综合集成,获取成矿有利度图;(5)对预测性能和结果进行不确定性评估;(6)找矿靶区/成矿远景区圈定及资源量估算。最后,总结建立以地学大数据和地球系统理论为指导,以“地球系统-成矿系统-勘查系统-预测评价系统”为研究路线的基于地学大数据的矿产资源定量预测理论和方法体系的研究愿景。     

大数据框架下金刚石地质成矿信息挖掘及应用

随着大数据时代的到来, 地质行业将大数据作为新兴增长点进行培育和挖掘, 以山东蒙阴金刚石矿集区为研究对象, 基于大数据实现地质工作和信息技术的深度融合, 通过数据统计、挖掘、洞察与预测等分析并集成融合与成矿系统相关的源、运、储、变、保等知识, 全面提取蒙阴地区多元地质信息, 建立西峪矿区金刚石矿多项指标的成矿地质信息模型, 开展三维可视化成矿预测, 进而圈定找矿远景区。探寻金刚石大数据管理、分析及成矿预测新技术方法, 促进成矿新认知与找矿新发现。     

基于CART算法的三维成矿预测研究——以安徽白象山矿区为例

把地质大数据和人工智能技术引入矿产资源定量评价及成矿预测体系中,提高了海量地质数据的有效信息挖掘,弥补了传统方法的不足。本文基于白象山矿区基础地质资料和物化探成果资料,利用三维地质体建模技术和三维空间分析技术,量化三维控矿因素,建立了一种基于CART 算法的三维成矿预测模型。通过在白象山矿区的实验表明：该模型能较好的定位已知矿体,并且预测出在已知矿体北部、东部、东北部、西部、南部和东南部具有较高的成矿概率,可圈定找矿靶区。该模型将地质大数据应用于找矿勘探工作,具有纯数据驱动、预测精度高、预测结果可靠等优点。研究发现,该模型的预测效果与训练数据集的数量、矿控因素提取、决策树深度等有关。     

降低矿产资源定量预测不确定性的双向预测方法

成矿过程是一个复杂的物理化学过程,由于地质自身的不确定性、原始数据采集和处理的不当、预测方法中经验参数的不确定性等多重因素的叠加,造成矿产资源定量预测结果中潜在大量不确定性。在科学认识这些不确定性的基础上,如何降低不确定性是预测评价研究的一个重要方向。以地质异常理论和成矿动力学为指导,双向预测评价方法是降低地质异常分析中不确定性的有效途径,该方法具体包括基于矿床成因模型的成矿模拟和基于找矿模型与勘查数据相结合的模型驱动预测。前者作为研究成矿地质演化过程、探讨成矿动力学机制的定量化方法之一,可以直观展示成矿过程内部物理化学变化。作为对致矿地质异常分析的有效手段,通过将成矿过程抽象为不受时空间限制的可迭代计算的偏微分方程组,可实现定量化描述复杂成矿动态过程并预测成矿有利部位。通过挖掘成矿有利信息,分析地质变量并赋值,为预测模型提供大量的定量化预测变量和特征值,是矿产资源定量预测评价的一个最具潜力的发展方向。后者以勘查学为指导的矿化异常分析,从矿致地质异常的角度开展定量预测,减少了单一成矿有利信息的多解性并降低了预测结果的不确定性。该技术手段是依托空间数据库、地质统计学和地理信息系统空间分析技术支撑,以三维地质体模型的建立为基础,以分析成矿规律并建立找矿模型为核心工作内容,以证据权、找矿信息量等数学方法为工具,统计分析研究区内各地质要素单元的分布情况来探讨各地质要素对矿产预测的影响,最终实现基于“立方体预测模型”的定位、定量和定概率的隐伏矿体三维预测目标。以上方法从两种不同的地质角度和定量化理念创新性地实现了双向联合预测评价,两种技术手段的融合作为综合圈定“5P”找矿地段的数学地质方法,其作用和价值是相互补充并有机结合的。通过文中方法介绍和应用实例的研究成果,可以明确该方法确实提高了矿产资源定量预测评价的预测精度,一定程度上降低了预测的不确定性,整体上推动了地球科学研究由定性描述向定量化自然科学的转变。     

基于空间数据挖掘的三维成矿预测定量指标体系建立方法研究——以宁芜盆地钟姑矿田为例

大数据思维是直接从数据入手的一种新的思维方式,其本质是减少甚至完全屏蔽人为因素干扰,让数据说话。以往三维成矿预测中指标体系的建立多采用经验分析法,以地质模型和先验知识指导控矿特征变量取值,其准确性易受到人为影响。本文基于大数据思维,使用数据驱动方法对三维成矿预测中的找矿指标体系进行探索性研究,在钟姑矿田选择4 个大中型典型矿床,直接采用三维空间分析方法对地层和岩体的控矿地质体进行特征分析,通过计算z 轴方向三维距离场、分析岩体顶面隆起凹陷程度形态因素,确定各控矿要素与矿体之间的相关关系,获取定量指标。本研究改变了以往主观经验指导找矿的思路,尝试采用空间数据挖掘方法进行客观数据分析提出找矿指标,提高了找矿指标体系建立的科学性,此方法得到的定量指标体系可直接参与三维找矿预测模型的计算。     

基于机器学习的三维矿产定量预测——以四川拉拉铜矿为例

在大数据蓬勃发展的时代背景下,矿产资源定量预测作为地质大数据的核心部分,其综合分析挖掘多元信息的基本思路与大数据的理念不谋而合。以四川拉拉铜矿为例,开展基于机器学习的三维矿产资源定量预测。通过建立三维地质模型,提取成矿有利信息,构建研究区定量预测模型;基于"立方块预测模型"找矿方法,采用机器学习随机森林算法,计算出研究区成矿概率分布,以此圈定出5个找矿远景区。结果表明,随机森林具有更高的预测准确度与稳定性,且能够对控矿要素重要性做出定量评价。该研究成功地将机器学习应用于三维矿产定量预测,为今后的矿产资源预测评价做出了积极的探索。     

隐伏矿床成矿预测理论与方法新进展

本文对隐伏矿床在国内外的定义、分类与特点进行了讨论,对隐伏矿床的分类的认识应从三维转变到四维,时间使得隐伏矿床的分类相互转化,因此对隐伏矿床的分类应结合当下实际情况。经过长期的野外实践总结,在大数据时代与3S科技背景下,在传统的隐伏矿床预侧理论与勘查技术方法上,提出以大数据成矿预侧理论指导找矿,以空间数据库、移动GIS和物化探设备集成的高效找矿技术方法,成为当今快速评价中小矿山企业远景区成矿潜力的重要理论与技术方法,探讨不同地区、不同矿床类型的勘查技术方法组合应是进一步研究的重点。传统的隐伏矿床成矿预测理论与方法在3S科技背景下趋向于大数据成矿预测与移动GIS勘查技术方法方向发展,应加强成矿预测理论与方法彼此之间的有效衔接、转化与应用,朝着多元成矿预测理论、多元勘查技术方法、多源信息数据集成成矿预测发展。     

Probabilistic Fuzzy Logic Modeling: Quantifying Uncertainty of Mineral Prospectivity Models Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Significant uncertainties are associated with the definition of both the exploration targeting criteria and computational algorithms used to generate mineral prospectivity maps. In prospectivity modeling, the input and computational uncertainties are generally made implicit, by making a series of best-guess or best-fit decisions, on the basis of incomplete and imprecise information. The individual uncertainties are then compounded and propagated into the final prospectivity map as an implicit combined uncertainty which is impossible to directly analyze and use for decision making. This paper proposes a new approach to explicitly define uncertainties of individual targeting criteria and propagate them through a computational algorithm to evaluate the combined uncertainty of a prospectivity map. Applied to fuzzy logic prospectivity models, this approach involves replacing point estimates of fuzzy membership values by statistical distributions deemed representative of likely variability of the corresponding fuzzy membership values. Uncertainty is then propagated through a fuzzy logic inference system by applying Monte Carlo simulations. A final prospectivity map is represented by a grid of statistical distributions of fuzzy prospectivity. Such modeling of uncertainty in prospectivity analyses allows better definition of exploration target quality, as understanding of uncertainty is consistently captured, propagated and visualized in a transparent manner. The explicit uncertainty information of prospectivity maps can support further risk analysis and decision making. The proposed probabilistic fuzzy logic approach can be used in any area of geosciences to model uncertainty of complex fuzzy systems.     

Three-dimensional mineral prospectivity modeling for targeting of concealed mineralization within the Zhonggu iron orefield,Ningwu Basin,China

The Zhonggu iron orefield is one of the most important iron orefields in China, and is located in the south of the Ningwu volcanic basin, within the middle and lower Yangtze metallogenic belt of eastern China. Here, we present the results of new 3D prospectivity modeling that enabled the delineation of areas prospective for exploration of concealed and deep-seated Baixiangshan-type mineralization and Yangzhuang-type mineralization within the Zhonggu orefield; both of these deposits are Kiruna-type Fe-apatite deposits but are hosted by different formations within the Ningwu Basin. The modeling approach used during this study involves 3 steps: (1) combining available geological and geophysical data to construct 3D geological models; (2) generation of 3D predictive maps from these 3D geological models using 3D spatial analysis and 3D geophysical methods; (3) combining all of the 3D predictive maps using logistic regression to create a prospectivity map. This approach integrates a large amount of available geoscientific data using 3D methods, including 3D geological modeling, 3D/2D geophysical methods, and 3D spatial analysis and data integration methods. The resulting prospectivity model clearly identifies highly prospective areas that not only include areas of known mineralization but also a number of favorable targets for future mineral exploration. The 3D prospectivity modeling approach showcased within this study provides an efficient way to identify camp-scale concealed and deep-seated exploration targets and can easily be adapted for regional- and deposit- scale targeting.     

成矿预测:从二维到三维

随着矿产资源勘探方法以及计算机科学技术的不断发展,成矿预测的理论和方法已从定性发展至定量,从二维拓展到三维。近十年来,随着深部矿产资源勘探工作的推进,三维成矿预测研究得到了迅猛发展,相关理论与方法也已逐步走向成熟。本文总结了国内外二维成矿预测研究的现状,同时对近十年来国内外学者在三维地质建模技术、三维成矿预测方法等方面的主要成果和进展做了系统总结和分析。目前,国内外多个地区已相继开展了三维成矿预测工作,并成功圈定多个深部找矿靶区,相关成果为深部找矿勘探工作提供了新的方法和方向。在此基础上,本文对未来三维成矿预测的发展趋势进行展望,相较于传统的二维成矿预测,三维成矿预测往往受限于三维预测信息的缺乏。如何更好的挖掘二维数据在深度方向的指示能力,将二维数据推演至三维环境,利用数值模拟、机器学习等方法开展数据挖掘、充分发挥已有数据的内蕴信息将在未来推动三维成矿预测理论的深入发展,提高三维成矿预测的理论方法及应用实践水平。     

Regional prospectivity analysis for hydrothermal-remobilised nickel mineral systems in western Victoria,Australia

Fuzzy logic mineral prospectivity modelling was performed to identify camp-scale areas in western Victoria with an elevated potential for hydrothermal-remobilised nickel mineralisation. This prospectivity analysis was based on a conceptual mineral system model defined for a group of hydrothermal nickel deposits geologically similar to the Avebury deposit in Tasmania. The critical components of the conceptual model were translated into regional spatial predictor maps combined using a fuzzy inference system. Applying additional criteria of land use restrictions and depth of post-mineralisation cover, downgrading the exploration potential of the areas within national parks or with thick barren cover, allowed the identification of just a few potentially viable exploration targets, in the south of the Grampians-Stavely and Glenelg zones. Uncertainties of geological interpretations and parameters of the conceptual mineral system model were explicitly defined and propagated to the final prospectivity model by applying Monte Carlo simulations to the fuzzy inference system. Modelling uncertainty provides additional information which can assist in a further risk analysis for exploration decision making.     

Assessing the impact of conceptual mineral systems uncertainty on prospectivity predictions

The past two decades have seen a rapid adoption of artificial intelligence methods applied to mineral exploration. More recently, the easier acquisition of some types of data has inspired a broad literature that has examined many machine learning and modelling techniques that combine exploration criteria, or ‘features’, to generate predictions for mineral prospectivity. Central to the design of prospectivity models is a ‘mineral system’, a conceptual model describing the key geological elements that control the timing and location of economic mineralisation. The mineral systems model defines what constitutes a training set, which features represent geological evidence of mineralisation, how features are engineered and what modelling methods are used. Mineral systems are knowledge-driven conceptual models, thus all parameter choices are subject to human biases and opinion so alternative models are possible. However, the effect of alternative mineral systems models on prospectivity is rarely compared despite the potential to heavily influence final predictions. In this study, we focus on the effect of conceptual uncertainty on Fe ore prospectivity models in the Hamersley region, Western Australia. Four important considerations are tested. (1) Five different supergene and hypogene conceptual mineral systems models guide the inputs for five forest-based classification prospectivity models model. (2) To represent conceptual uncertainty, the predictions are then combined for prospectivity model comparison. (3) Representation of three-dimensional objects as two-dimensional features are tested to address commonly ignored thickness of geological units. (4) The training dataset is composed of known economic mineralisation sites (deposits) as ‘positive’ examples, and exploration drilling data providing ‘negative’ sampling locations. Each of the spatial predictions are assessed using independent performance metrics common to AI-based classification methods and subjected to geological plausibility testing. We find that different conceptual mineral systems produce significantly different spatial predictions, thus conceptual uncertainty must be recognised. A benefit to recognising and modelling different conceptual models is that robust and geologically plausible predictions can be made that may guide mineral discovery.     

西藏铁格隆南铜(金)矿床三维模型分析与深部预测

铁格隆南铜(金)矿床是近年来在班公湖-怒江成矿带西段多龙矿集区新发现的超大型Cu(Au-Ag)矿床。本文针对铁格隆南矿区深部找矿问题,以现代成矿地质理论和多元地学信息综合分析技术为支撑,以构建矿床找矿模型为指导,依托数据库技术、3S技术、三维建模与可视化技术及地质统计学理论与方法,开展基于矿产地质、地球物理、地球化学等成矿条件及找矿标志的三维地质实体建模与矿化异常三维空间重构,将铁格隆南矿床的预测评价研究拓展到三维空间,揭示了区内成矿地质特征、地球化学及地球物理异常表征,据此探讨了矿床的成因及矿体分布特征。并在此基础上,开展了矿区的地质-地球化学-地球物理综合信息分析与预测评价,以期减少单一信息多解性和成矿条件不确定性,为铁格隆南矿区深部找矿工作提供参考。研究结果表明:在地质找矿模型指导下,基于深部成矿空间三维结构重构基础上的三维地质、地球物理、地球化学异常信息提取与综合分析,可以有效的识别成矿地质体和矿致异常信息,实现深部矿产资源靶区空间定位预测,为深部找矿预测研究提供了新思路。综合分析结果显示铁格隆南矿床深部找矿潜力巨大。     

隐伏矿体三维综合信息成矿预测方法

开展三维综合信息成矿预测,是当前隐伏矿体找矿勘探的实际需要,但目前尚缺乏系统的研究,工作方法体系仍有待深入探讨。本文提出了一套较为完善的隐伏矿体三维综合信息定量预测流程和方法。方法包括数据收集及地质数据库管理、三维地质建模及地球物理数据融合、地质特征空间分析及控矿因素提取、多维多元控矿信息融合及预测信息集构建、隐伏矿体三维定位定量预测等多方面内容。由于方法综合了地质体三维建模、多维空间分析技术、地球物理方法以及预测方法,因此可有效提高三维成矿预测的有效性和可靠程度。为验证方法的有效性,本文在宁芜盆地分别针对矿田和矿区尺度,开展了中、大比例尺的三维成矿预测实例研究,取得了较好效果。研究显示该方法体系可有效地对深部隐伏矿体进行定位定量预测,能够服务于今后的新老矿区隐伏矿体找矿勘探工作。     

From 2D to 3D: Prospectivity modelling in the Taupo Volcanic Zone,New Zealand

A 2D prospectivity model of epithermal gold mineralisation has been completed over the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), using the weights of evidence modelling technique. This study was used to restrict a 3D geological interpretation and prospectivity model for the Ohakuri region. The TVZ is commonly thought of as a present-day analogue of the environment in which many epithermal ore deposits, such as in the Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Volcanic Zone, are formed. The models utilise compiled digital data including historical exploration data, geological data from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. Quarter Million Mapping Programme, recent Glass Earth geophysics data and historic exploration geochemical data, including rock-chip and stream sediment information. Spatial correlations between known deposits and predictive maps are determined from the available data, which represent each component of the currently accepted mineral system model for epithermal gold. The 2D prospectivity model confirms that the TVZ has potential for gold mineralisation. However, one of the weaknesses of this weights of evidence model is that the studies are carried out in 2D, with an approximation of 3D provided by geophysical and drilling data projected to a 2D plane. Consequently, a 3D prospectivity model was completed over the Ohakuri area, constrained by the results of the 2D model and predictive maps. The 3D model improved the results allowing more effective exploration targeting. However, the study also highlighted the main issues that need to be resolved before 3D prospectivity modelling becomes standard practise in the mineral exploration industry. The study also helped develop a work flow that incorporates preliminary 2D spatial data analysis from the weights of evidence technique to more effectively restrict and develop 3D predictive map interpretation and development.     

宁芜盆地白象山矿区人工神经网络 三维成矿定位预测研究

本文基于三维地质环境,综合白象山矿区积累的地质资料和物探成果,首先开展三维地质建模工作,详细刻画了白象山矿区的三维地质结构;在三维地质模型基础上,利用三维空间分析手段对三维控矿因素进行定量挖掘,提取了多种三维控矿因素;最后采用人工神经网络方法进行三维成矿定位预测。预测结果显示,人工神经网络三维成矿定位预测能很好的定位出已知矿体,同时显示,在已知矿体北部及东部的深边部具有较高的成矿概率,可作为开展进一步找矿勘探的靶区。因此,人工神经网络三维成矿定位预测对于白象山矿区的应用是有效的,可服务于新老矿区的深边部三维成矿定位预测,同时可为隐伏矿、盲矿的成矿预测和优选靶区提供定量、定位新的方法和途径。