Figure 38 above. Global seismic tomography at 200 km depth showing Europe mines and exploration targeting area.
We will now go to Europe and do a similar exercise to what was done in Australia, only in more detail for the individual metals.
This figure shows the general geology of Europe overlaid with all the different metal mines that I could find in the public domain. This was quite a task as very few European countries have their mines in the public domain.
It is observed that the European mines only partially follow the geology. We will try and find out where the Europe mineralisation originates and the geological structures that it lies on.
This short post is a prelude to the next post which studies the structural setting for metal mines in Europe in detail.
Some surprising structural relationships with each metal are shown that I have never seen published before!!
Also have you ever seen a detailed structural geology plan of Europe (or anywhere) developed from Google Earth??