Knowledge-Driven Approach to Finding the New Potential Area for Base Metal Mineralization around Potulapalle Area in Cuddapah Basin

The area is mostly covered by rocks belonging to Cuddapah Supergroup of Meso-Proterozoic to Neo-Proterozoic in age. The study area forms part of the Chitravati Group, where quartzite, shale, chert, dolomite and siltstone of the Tadpatri Formation are exposed along with basic sills and acid volcanics. Knowledge and data-driven approaches are two major methods used to integrate various evidential maps for mineral prospectively mapping (MPM). Geological maps, geochemical data and geophysical data of toposheet no 57J/6 nearby mudunuru area Andhra Pradesh was used to generate mineral potential map and this method helps in identifying prospective areas in terms of mineralization. Moreover. In addition, it has been found that the mineral predictive map generated using weighted overlay Analysis