The recently discovered 460 Gaodi porphyry Mo-Cu deposit is a sub-economic characterized by low grades, dispersed mineralization, and separated Mo- Cu-ore bodies. This study aims to elucidate the factors underlying this type of mineralization. Electron-microprobe analyses biotite from ore-related granite yielded Ti-in-biotite crystallization temperatures 677–734 °C (an average 719 °C) phenocrys...

Porphyry deposits, our main source of copper and of significant amounts of Mo, Re and Au, form at convergent margins in association with intermediate-felsic magmas. Although it is accepted that copper is transported and precipitated by fluids released by these magmas, the magmatic processes leading to the formation of economic deposits remain elusive. Here we perform Monte Carlo petrological an...

The genesis of deeply buried deposits in the Duobaoshan ore district, largest porphyry-related Cu-Mo-Au field northeastern China, is not well understood and their exploration lacking because fine velocity structure this region comprehensively understood. Herein, first-arrival seismic travel times were picked along a deep reflection profile inverted using tomographic method to obtain detailed up...

Fe isotopes have been applied to the petrogenesis of ore deposits. However, behavior iron in mineralization porphyry-skarn deposits is still poorly understood. In this study, we report mineral separations (magnetite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite) from two different skarn deposits, i.e., Tonglvshan Cu-Fe deposit developed an oxidized hydrothermal system Anqing Cu a reduced system. both ca...

To reconstruct the magmatic–hydrothermal processes leading to porphyry Mo ore formation at the Climax Mo mine, Colorado, four magma units that were emplaced before, during and shortly after the mineralization events were investigated: (1) a pre-mineralization white dike of the Alma district; (2) the syn-mineralization Chalk Mountain Rhyolite; (3) a lateto post-mineralization rhyolite porphyry d...

During the latter part of the Phanerozoic, numerous iron oxide(-Cu-Au) (IOCG) systems formed in parts of the Cordillera of North and South America. They occur in diverse tectonic and magmatic settings with considerable variety in deposit associations and characteristics. Although there are general patterns, there is no simple, all-encompassing descriptive model; a comparison with the diversity ...

Abstract Porphyry-type deposits are the main global source of copper and molybdenum. An improved understanding most favorable structural settings for emplacement these is necessary successful exploration, particularly considering that future discoveries will be made under cover based on conceptual target generation. A common view porphyry preferentially emplaced in pull-apart basins within stri...

Prospectivity modelling has been completed over the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia, using the GIS based weights of evidence modelling technique to target porphyry Cu-Au, associated skarn Cu-Au, orogenic Au and VMS Au mineralisation. The Lachlan Fold Belt is a 700 km wide belt of Paleozoic accretionary terrains, stretching from Queensland to Tasmania. Porphyry and skarn mineralisa...

The Vathi porphyry Cu-Au±Mo deposit is located in the Kilkis ore district, northern Greece. Hydrothermally altered and mineralized samples of latite quartz monzonite are enriched with numerous rare critical metals. present study focuses on bulk geochemistry mineral chemistry pyrite, chalcopyrite, magnetite, titanite. Pyrite chalcopyrite most abundant minerals at related to potassic, propylitic,...

In our previous study on petrogenesis of quartz syenite and granite porphyry, the host rocks Late Mesozoic Shapinggou Mo deposit in Qinling–Dabie orogenic belt, we found that initial Sr isotopic composition is strongly affected by degree K-alteration. Here, provide further evidence their minerals to investigate geochemical behaviour trace elements isotopes during alteration explain phenomenon d...