Abstract:In recent years, China has accumulated a wealth of geochemical data in its geochemical exploration and scanning work. How to effectively utilize these geochemical data and combine them with known ore deposit (point) types to obtain more comprehensive mineralization exploration information is a topic worth studying in the current mineral exploration process. This article proposed the primary halo-factor analysis (PH-FA: primary halo-factor analysis) method, which used the correlation relationships of the ore-forming elements in the primary halo to characterize the correlation attributes in the secondary halo, making the correlation attributes of the ore-forming elements in the secondary halo closer to the element data structure of the ore-forming event. Taken the Chaganhua area in Inner Mongolia as an example, the ore geochemical data of primary halo was analyzed to determine that Bi was the most relevant element to Mo. By comparing the enrichment degree of the background and calculating the weight combination, the PH-FA weight coefficients of Mo and Bi were 0.717607 and 0.282393, respectively. Bi and Mo were combined and the PH-FA score was calculated to extract geochemical anomalies. The results showed that compared with traditional factor analysis, this method had a 13.05% higher overlap rate between the delineated anomalies and the ore-controlling faults. The ore-controlling factors such as structural lines and rocks also had stronger spatial distribution correlation. This indicates that this method has high feasibility in identifying ore-controlling factors and exploring the surrounding areas of the mining region.