This study deals with application of artificial neural networks (ANNs) on grade control at mine sites inputting both geological and geotechnical variables. Case study is Chapada copper-gold deposit (Goiás, Brazil), located in the neoproterozoic Chapada-Mara Rosa volcano-sedimentary sequence. Ore is closely related to hydrothermal alteration, structurally controlled. The geological and geotechni...

The Wunugetushan large porphyry Cu–Mo deposit in NE China is hosted by Mesozoic quartz monzonite and has a Mo-rich core Cu-rich rim space. In this paper, melt inclusions intrusions fluid different-stage veins were studied to explore potential parameters leading decoupling. Melt have rhyolitic compositions of 71.7–85.3 wt.% SiO 2 , 1.9–31.3 ppm Cu 1.7–2.6 Mo. Hydrothermal activity occurred over ...

a high percentage of world copper production is obtained from porphyry copper reserves, these reserves are characterized by: very high tonnage, greater horizontal dimensions than vertical, association with stock like intrusion masses, dispersed minerals in the porphyry mass and in its neighbor rocks, intense sericitization and inplace silicification. the porphyry coppers are concentrated by flo...

nezam-abad area is located in southwest of shazand (arak) which is a part of sanandaj-sirjan zone. major intrusive rocks of nezam-abad are quartz diorite and minor amount of granodiorite. leucogranitic, pegmatite dykes and quartz-tourmaline veins were intruded the quartz diorite. quartz diorites are mainly composed of plagioclase, hornblende, biotite, quartz and pyroxene as major minerals. majo...

The Heihaibei gold deposit is located in the Eastern Kunlun Orogen Northwest China. mineralization here occurs predominantly quartz veins within faulted granite zones. sulfide mineral assemblage dominated by pyrite and arsenopyrite, with minor chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, micro-native gold. Weak alterations granites include silicification sericitization, chloritization carbon...

The main reservoir in the Dixie Valley geothermal field of Nevada is hosted in fractured Jurassic rocks within the hanging wall of the Stillwater fault. Within the Jurassic sequence, at least four major stages of alteration related to the fault system can be identified. The paragenetic sequence from oldest to youngest consists of Stage I) biotite-potassium feldspar veins, and epidote-chlorite-c...

This study contributes to our understanding of the evolution Hal?lar Cu-Pb (±Zn) mineralization (NW Turkey) based on mineralogical and geochemical results sulfur isotope data. The area represents local with some Zn brecciated-stockwork vein type along NE–SW fault gouge zone at lower boundary Sakarkaya Düztarla granitoid rocks. Two main zones, consisting sericite–quartz–chlorite ± kaolinite pyri...

The research at Mendoke Mountains, Southeast Sulawesi Province, particularly for the study of gold deposits, becomes a new challenge because there is no previous detailed study. This aims to analyze characteristics orogenic which include type and texture quartz veins, alteration hydrothermal mineralization with hosted metamorphic rocks. methods used fieldwork laboratory analysis. veins were ide...

The Miocene magmatic intrusion in the Tavşanlı zone of the Kütahya-Bolkardağ Belt (KBB) in the northwestern region of Turkey is represented by the Eğrigöz granitoids. This paper studies the petrology and geochemistry of hydrothermal alterations associated with the vein-type Cu-Pb-Zn mineralization hosted by this pluton, focusing on the determination of the mass gains and losses of chemical comp...