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dc.contributor.authorNaprstek, T.-
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Richard S.-
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-30T18:38:04Z-
dc.date.available2019-08-30T18:38:04Z-
dc.date.issued2016-02-18-
dc.identifier.citationNaprstek, T. and R. S. Smith, 2016, The effect of dielectric permittivity on the fields radiated from a radio-frequency electric dipole in a homogeneous whole space: Geophysics, 81(2), K1-K8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2015-0219.1en_US
dc.identifier.issn0016-8033-
dc.identifier.issn1942-2156-
dc.identifier.urihttps://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3322-
dc.descriptionThis paper is © 2019 Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The posting is available free of charge and its use is subject to the SEG terms and conditions: https://seg.org/Terms-of-Useen_US
dc.description.abstractThe radio imaging method (RIM) is an electromagnetic cross-borehole method with applications in mineral exploration, as well as in the coal industry, where it is used across mine drives. Attenuation of the signal from conductive regions may indicate areas of mineralization, and these conductive effects in general dominate the response. In an effort to better understand the effect of a material’s dielectric permittivity on the response of the RIM, we have developed a simple program to model an electric dipole in a homogeneous whole space. When increasing the dielectric permittivity, the amplitude peak broadened and increased, whereas the phase peak sharpened and shifted negatively. To showcase the effect of dielectric permittivity on RIM data, data recorded from two transmitter positions in a moderately homogeneous zone in the Sudbury Basin were curve fit, and we concluded that despite the stronger effect that conductivity has on the signal, RIM is still sensitive to dielectric permittivity, and appropriate values must be used when developing conductivity tomograms. In addition, we found that for the given situation and frequencies used, an increase in either the conductivity or dielectric permittivity could be accounted for by a decrease of approximately the same factor in the other variable. However, the low-conductivity, high-permittivity case seemed to fit the shape of the amplitude and phase curves better. For the sulfide impregnated crystalline rocks at our field site, relative dielectric constants of 26.4 and 31 at 1250 and 625 kHz, respectively, were inferred.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKGHM International, Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations A Glencore Company, Vale Limited, Wallbridge Mining Company, the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI), the Mineral Exploration Re- search Centre (MERC), and NSERCen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety of Exploration Geophysicistsen_US
dc.subjectelectromagneticsen_US
dc.subjectminingen_US
dc.subjecttomographyen_US
dc.titleThe effect of dielectric permittivity on the fields radiated from a radio-frequency electric dipole in a homogeneous whole spaceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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