Application of Zipf’s law to estimate undiscovered gold endowment in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero Province, Brazil

Ore-forming processes act as self-organizing critical systems. These systems exist in an unbalanced nature, such that energy-release can occur as a scale-invariant power-law behavior when a certain threshold is exceeded. In ore-forming systems, the energy released from multiple transient pulses of o...

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Main Authors: Iago Sousa Lima Costa, Guilherme Ferreira da Silva, Marcos Vinícius Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serviço Geológico do Brasil (CPRM) 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil
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Online Access:https://jgsb.cprm.gov.br/index.php/journal/article/view/84