عمرو عبدالناصر علي خليل
أستاذ مساعد
Remote Sensing-based Machine Learning Techniques for Mapping Gold-Mineralized Alteration Zones in the Fatira Mine Area, Egypt
Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) • 2025
معلومات البحث
المؤلفون
Refaey El-Wardany; Jiangang Jiao; Basem Zoheir; Lobna Khedr; Mustafa Kumral; Lei Liu; Ibrahem Abu El-Leil; Ahmed Orabi; Lotfy Abd El-Salam; Amr Abdelnasser
الكلمات المفتاحية
Au-sulfide mineralization; Egypt; Fatira gold mine; gold exploration; hydrothermal alteration; machine learning; mineralogy; remote sensing
المجلة العلمية
Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)
الناشر
WILEY
المجلد
99
العدد
4
الصفحات
1196 - 1223
publication.type
International
رابط البحث
Open Link
المواد المرفقة
Not Available
الملخص
In the Fatira (Abu Zawal) mine area, located in the northern Eastern Desert of Egypt, fieldwork and mineralogical analysis, integrated with machine learning techniques applied to Landsat-8 OLI, ASTER, and Sentinel-2 multi-spectral imagery (MSI) data delineate gold-sulfide mineralization in altered rocks. Gold (Au) anomalies in hydrothermal breccias and quartz veins are associated with NE-oriented felsite dykes and silicified granitic rocks. Two main alteration types are identified: a pyrite-sericite-quartz and a sulfide-chlorite-carbonate assemblage, locally with dispersed free-milling Au specks. Dimensionality reduction techniques, including principal component analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA), enabled mapping of alteration types. Sentinel-2 PC125 composite images offered efficient lithological differentiation, while supervised classifications, i.e., the support vector machine (SVM) of Landsat-8 yielded an accuracy of 88.55% and a Kappa value of 0.86. ASTER mineral indices contributed to map hydrothermal alteration mineral phases, including sericite, muscovite, kaolinite, and iron oxides. Results indicate that post-magmatic epigenetic hydrothermal activity significantly contributed to the Au-sulfide mineralization in the Fatira area, distinguishing it from the more prevalent orogenic gold deposits in the region.
