Partially conducting environment surrouding an one body highly affect its electromagnetic response. Conducting host rock, overburden and disseminated sulphide halo, for example, affect the electromagnetic response in different ways depending upon their electrical properties, areal and geometrical relation with the target, and in particular to the EM system used for prospecting. In the thesis, EM anomalies due to vertical tabular conducting bodies under am overburden, obtained through reduced scale models, are analised for different ground EM systems - horizontal coplanar, vertical coplanar and vertical coaxial - in 8 frequencies between 250 Hz to 35 kHz and the coil separation 0,15; 0,20 and 0,25m. Overburden was simulated by horizontally placed thin stainless steel sheet and the main conducting target by thin aluminium shets placed vertically below the former. The dimensions of these sheets were determined according to the modelling conditions for a plane and half-plane. Various geological situations were represented in modelling using the combinations of the three metallic sheets of varying thicknesses and conductivities to simulate the ore body and another three sheets to simulated the overburden. Set of diagrams are plotted using peak-to-peak in phase and quadrature anomalies for analyzing the results. However, another set of diagrams show that the maximum in phase anomaly occurs when the quadrature countpart is zero at relatively low frequencies when the ore-body together with the overburden is studied. On the other hand, the maximum amplitude in quadrature is obtained at relatively high frequencies when the in phase component attains the minimum, almost zero. With this type of analysis, it was to known the band of frequencies, for each of prospecting systems studied, in wich the EM response of the ore body is least affected by the overburden. Highest response was obtained with the horizontal coplanar system and the least with the vertical coplanar coils. An increase in the separation between the transmitter-receiver resulted in dislocating the peaks to lower frequencies. Widest band of frequencies, in wich the EM response of the body is least affected by the overburden, is obtained in case of vertical coaxial system and narrowest for the horizontal coplanar coils. These results helps us in planning the EM prospecting systems by knowing the position and the band with of frequencies to be used along with otimum transmitter-receiver separation such that the EM response remains free from undesired signals, for example those caused by to overburden.
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