GIS concepts for Mineral Exploration - a copper belt example of exploration targeting

GIS concepts and their applications in mineral exploration. What are the field data compmonents? How is exploration data integrated with maps into GIS? Transforming data to information to knowledge and then to action. Software for GIS and other exploration applications. How to use GIS to maximise the value of available data? The concept of raster and vector maps and where to use which one? Methodology of integrating data into GIS and transforming the data to proximity analysis based maps that can be used for target identification. Concept of theoretical models and empirical models. An example for how a favorability map was produced using GIS driven exploration data processing. Fuzzy logic and its application in GIS for exploration.