This paper aims to determine the degree of influence of ten representative factors of BWIS: specific heat capacity of rock-soil, rock-soil density, thermal conductivity of rock-soil, void fraction of rock-soil, rock-soil permeability, beach well radius, site length, site width, row number of beach wells, and column number of beach wells.
Every type of mutation they examined led to cyclic patterns, with the fractions of rock, paper, and scissors rocking gently up and down forever.
Bedrocks of the catchment consist of sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, and a small fraction of igneous rocks.
Typically, only a small fraction of the rock consists of magnetic minerals.
The following assumptions were made on CIA determination; CaO is considered as the amount of CaO incorporated in the silicate fraction of the rock.
"That would mean that in the mountains, a large fraction of the rock mass could instead be made of diamonds and lots of land masses rich in diamonds, much more than we see on Earth".
It was found that for identical size fractions, carbonation of rock wastes was quite limited as compared to the tailings.
These 17.3 acres make up only a fraction of Point of Rocks' several hundred acres, but give Canaan an added distinction.
Extrapolating these results to the field scale, suggests that the much slower than expected copper release at the site is due to fractions of waste rock with very low sulphide content, fractions with significant amounts of calcite remaining, and slower weathering rates due to lower temperature, larger particle size and lower oxygen content.
