Integrated geophysical data for 2D/3D gold target delineation in the Bidou area, Nyong Group, Cameroon
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Abstract
The Bidou area is located within the polymetallic province of the Nyong Group (southwestern Cameroon), which is structurally controlled by N–S to NNE–SSW-trending regional structures. This study aims to delineate the 2D/3D geometry of potential primary gold mineralization targets by integrating magnetic, radiometric, and electrical (IP/resistivity) geophysical data. Interpretation of the vertical derivative and analytical signal of the reduced-to-pole magnetic field highlights a well-defined N–S to NNE–SSW magnetic anomaly corridor interpreted as a potential primary gold-bearing structure. Radiometric analysis of the K/Th ratio map reveals a thorium anomaly spatially coincident with this magnetic corridor, suggesting thorium mobilization related to hydrothermal processes. Inverted IP/resistivity sections identify very high and high chargeability domains spatially associated with low to very low resistivity zones, interpreted as altered structures, clay-rich zones, and sulfide-bearing metamorphic units potentially associated with gold mineralization. Three-dimensional correlation of the chargeability sections enabled the construction of a 3D model of the very high chargeability (VHC: 50–590 mV/V) and high chargeability (HC: 20–50 mV/V) domains, with estimated volumes of approximately 2.25 × 10⁹ m³ and 1.85 × 10¹⁰ m³, respectively. The individual VHC model further confirms the persistence of the N–S to NNE–SSW anomaly corridor at depth. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of an integrated geophysical approach for first-order gold exploration targeting in structurally complex Precambrian terrains.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".