As exploration is time-consuming, costly, and risky, determination of the erosion surface of a metalliferous deposit before geophysical surveying and exploration drilling might be very helpful. Geochemical haloes can be used to determine whether the erosion surface is supra-ore or sub-ore and thus reduce the risk of exploration operations. The aim of this investigation is to determine the erosion surface of the North ROK porphyry deposit (NRPD) in northwestern British Columbia in Canada using linear productivity (LP), which is the content of an element defining the halo multiplied by the width of the halo. A total of 2045 soil samples from the B horizon were analysed using ICP-MS for 36 elements, including Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn, Au, As, Ag, Ni, Co, Fe, and Mn. The data-set was snalysed to obtain the statistical parameters and the elements Cu, Mo, Pb, and Zn were chosen to calculate the linear productivity and the total linear productivity. These four elements were modelled using probability plots to identify and separate subpopulations in terms of anomalous haloes and background, including the threshold values of each subpopulation. The results of the probability plot modelling and thresholds values were then used to map the distribution of each element in a GIS to calculate the linear productivity. The total linear productivity indicated that the erosion surface is supra-ore. Finally, a 3D orebody model of the Cu, Mo, Pb, and Zn distributions was constructed using borehole data and used to validate the results.

The objective of this paper is representation of an analytical solution to calculate transmission loss (TL) of an arbitrarily thick cylindrically orthotropic shell, immersed in a fluid medium with a uniform external airflow and contains internal fluids. The shell is assumed to be infinitely long and is excited by an oblique plane wave. The displacements are expanded as cubic functions of the thickness coordinate to present an analytical solution based on Third-order Shear Deformation Theory (TSDT). Equations of motion of the shell are then obtained using virtual work method. By solving shell vibration as well as acoustic wave equations simultaneously, the exact solution for TL is obtained. Predictions with the presented models are compared with those of previous models (CST and FSDT) for thin shells. Similar results are achieved as the effects of shear and rotation on TL are not noticeable in a thin shell. However, the model introduced here exhibits more accurate results for thick shells where the shear and rotation effects become more significant in lower R/h ratios. Additionally, the effects of related parameters on TL such as material and geometrical properties are discussed.