Recently, the use of electrical prospecting with high spatial density of electrodes has increased and is being applied to underground investigations for mineral exploration and other civil engineering purposes. In order to characterize rock mass using the resistivity distribution of ground, which is...

The theory of charge transport, conduction and polarisation mechanisms are briefly presented, followed by a review of the DC resistivity, relative dielectric permittivity and loss tangent for rocks and minerals. The importance of pore fluid conductivity is highlighted with a full summary of the elec...

This paper attempts to estimate electrical resistivity from physico-mechanical and abrasion properties of rocks. For this purpose, the electrical properties of rock samples collected from igneous and metamorphic formations were initially measured in a laboratory by employing the two-electrode method...