Document Type : Original Research Paper
Authors
1 Amirkabir University of Technology
2 Amirkabir university of Technology
10.22044/jme.2025.16261.3157
Abstract
Geochemical exploration as an advantageous exploration method mostly deals with anomaly separation and related endeavors. Many experts have suggested various types of anomaly identification methods. The intention of this research is introduction of a new method for separating geochemical anomalies based on the Fibonacci sequence for the first time. The Fibonacci features of datasets were clarified and the method was introduced and applied on a dataset of bore-hole samples of Hired gold deposit located in southern Khorasan province, Iran. The main result of this study is the successfully establishing of a Fibonacci-based procedure that leads to separate geochemical anomalies. The determined thresholds by this method were compared with U-statistics and Concentration-Volume fractal modeling. Evaluation of the results revealed high consistence between the outcomes of the methods. The U-Statistics threshold for background was 105 ppb for gold and the Fibonacci Transformation method’s threshold was 109 ppb. This new method specified 170 ppb for gold moderate anomaly and the C-V fractal determined 169 ppb which are almost the same. The performance of the new method was assessed by calculating misclassification errors. The average total misclassification error was 0.023 which is acceptable and quite reasonable since the methods are fundamentally different. As the other main results of this study, it is confirmed that one of the Fibonacci features which is defined as Fibonacci index (FI) fluctuates among element pairs in the same way that geochemical correlation does. The FI could be considered as a genetic-related factor in geochemical studies and ore evolution researches.
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