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Geologically driven 3D modelling of physical rock properties in support of interpreting the seismic response of the Lalor volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada

Ernst Schetselaar, Gilles Bellefleur, James Craven, Eric Roots, Saeid Cheraghi, Pejman Shamsipour, Antoine Caté, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Najib El Goumi, Randolph Enkin and Matthew Salisbury
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 57-79, 28 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.5
Ernst Schetselaar
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2Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A1S6, Canada
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1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
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Pejman Shamsipour
3Département des Génies civil, École Polytechnique de Montréal, géologique et des mines, Montréal, Québec, H3C3A7, Canada
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4Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Eau Terre et Environnement 490, rue de la Couronne Québec, Québec, G1K9A9, Canada
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Patrick Mercier-Langevin
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Najib El Goumi
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Randolph Enkin
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Matthew Salisbury
7Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, PO Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y4A2, Canada
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3D lithofacies and physical rock property models were generated to interpret 3D seismic data acquired over the Lalor volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Manitoba, Canada. The lithofacies model revealed that strong seismic reflectivity is associated with ore–host rock and mafic–felsic lithofacies contacts, including their hydrothermally altered equivalents. Different physical rock property models were subjected to 3D seismic forward modelling using the SOFI3D finite difference code. Seismic synthetics from discrete and interpolated models in which kriging of P-wave velocity and density was conditioned by curvilinear grids conformable to the 3D-modelled geological structure showed a much better match to the seismic data in comparison with those generated by kriging in Cartesian space. Synthetics from these curvilinear grid models corroborate the origin of seismic reflectors, as qualitatively inferred from the lithofacies model. Seismic synthetics generated from physical rock property models in which physical rock properties were augmented by densely sampled secondary variables, such as FeO percentage, enhanced lateral continuity of seismic reflectivity, although these co-kriged petrophysical models were not more accurate than their kriged equivalents. The physical rock property modelling methodology was also useful for testing the utility of passive interferometric seismic surveys, as this highlighted the limitations of the discrete physical rock property model.

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Geologically driven 3D modelling of physical rock properties in support of interpreting the seismic response of the Lalor volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada

Ernst Schetselaar, Gilles Bellefleur, James Craven, Eric Roots, Saeid Cheraghi, Pejman Shamsipour, Antoine Caté, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Najib El Goumi, Randolph Enkin and Matthew Salisbury
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 57-79, 28 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.5
Ernst Schetselaar
1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
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Gilles Bellefleur
1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
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James Craven
1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
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Eric Roots
1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
2Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A1S6, Canada
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Saeid Cheraghi
1Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0E9, Canada
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Pejman Shamsipour
3Département des Génies civil, École Polytechnique de Montréal, géologique et des mines, Montréal, Québec, H3C3A7, Canada
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Antoine Caté
4Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Eau Terre et Environnement 490, rue de la Couronne Québec, Québec, G1K9A9, Canada
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Patrick Mercier-Langevin
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Najib El Goumi
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Geologically driven 3D modelling of physical rock properties in support of interpreting the seismic response of the Lalor volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada

Ernst Schetselaar, Gilles Bellefleur, James Craven, Eric Roots, Saeid Cheraghi, Pejman Shamsipour, Antoine Caté, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Najib El Goumi, Randolph Enkin and Matthew Salisbury
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 57-79, 28 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.5
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