Using 3D/4D modelling tools in exploration for epithermal gold potential areas in Eastern Rhodope zone (Western Thrace, NE Greece)

3D/4D modelling tools are gaining ground day to day as advanced exploration technologies in mineral industry. The ability to visualise, interpolate and interpret geological data is a critical time- and money-saving method for mineral explorers. The models can contribute to better understand the geological evolution of mineralizing and ore-forming processes. These models can be key inputs for generating predictive models at different scales. In NE Greece, where most of the potential resources and feasible deposits are hosted, polymetallic-gold mineralizations occur in a wide range of genetic types comprising magmatic, hypothermal/ mesothermal manto-type, orogenic, epithermal and supergene mineralization types. The epithermal deposits were emplaced within a broad volcanic belt of Oligocene-Miocene age, which developed first in Bulgaria and then moved south through northern Greece to the region of Thrace. Deposit, semi-regional, regional scales 3D models and 4D model were produced to achieve new metallogenetic interpretations and exploration perspectives in Greece.