Abstract New mineralogical, geochemical, and geochronological data are presented for the Island Dam prospect, Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia. Skarn assemblages comprising actinolite/phlogopite + K-feldspar magnetite suggest presence of calcareous protoliths at indicate high-temperature alkali-calcic alteration in early stages IOCG mineralization, as seen other deposits region. Dating l...

TheMarcona–Mina Justa deposit cluster, hosted by Lower Paleozoic metaclastic rocks and Middle Jurassic shallow marine andesites, incorporates the most important known magnetite mineralization in the Andes at Marcona (1.9 Gt at 55.4% Fe and 0.12% Cu) and one of the few major iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposits with economic Cu grades (346.6 Mt at 0.71% Cu, 3.8 g/t Ag and 0.03 g/t Au) at Mina ...

Brownfield areas are important targets of exploration; however, the extensive drilling present in these has not fully exploited their prospective potential. The appropriate use drill hole cores can play an role deep exploration. We a case study iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) Furnas Southeast deposit, located Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil. This deposit disseminated chalcopyrite, bornite and go...

A review of gold and bearing base metals deposits in Chile, indicate the existence at least six different type ore deposits, most largely formed during Cenozoic with predominance Miocene. Mesozoic are common but less relevant regarding their size content. These hydrothermal genetically associated subduction related Andean arc magmatism. Due to its relationship episodic magmatism migrating eastw...

The Salobo iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit host an important Cu-mineralization of the Carajás Mineral Province. ore is characterized by association (bornite-chalcocite-digenite) hosted magnetite and biotite-garnet schists. These rocks record distinct stages superimposed hydrothermal alteration dynamic metamorphism. Three different occurrences constitute bodies: a pristine to inclusion-poo...