Mining and Exploitation: Wireline Logging
Geophysical methods are used widely in the search for and exploitation of many types of economic deposit, from hydrocarbons and evaporites through to lead and copper.
Exploration
Geophysical logging of drilled holes can provide invaluable information on quality and quantity of many economic deposits, such as many metals, coal and lignite, gypsum, halite, potash and other evaporites, clay, limestone and marble.