摘要
Determination of lower limit for geochemical anomaly is the key to delineate geochemical anomalies and favorable metallogenic belt and guide prospecting. If threshold is too high weak anomalies will be missed and too low resulting in exaggerating of anomalies. River sediment Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag data from Baiyin Mine Area and surroundings, Baiyin City, Gansu Province are processed with traditional methods showing anomalies mainly limited in the mine area and normalization method showing more anomalies and better coincidence with the mineralization-concentrated areas but missing the weak anomalies and fractal method showing more objective anomalies and weak anomalies and best coincidence with the mineralization-concentrated areas.