1. Introduction Thompson-Okanagan-Cariboo is an administrative region in south-central BC, established after the province reorganized its natural resource agencies in 2010. Mining predates Confederation and today, the region is home to fi ve of BC's largest metal mines, several industrial mineral mines, and many small placer operations, gravel pits, and rock quarries. power), and skilled worker...

Quartz porphyry of rhyolitic composition though a volumetrically minor is an important component metavolcanic successions in the Gadag schist belt western Dharwar craton. The quartz porphyries are calc-alkaline, enriched light rare earth elements (Lan/Ybn ~ 10–20) and with strong negative Eu anomaly (Eu/Eu*N=0.45–0.58). These features, coupled high K2O/Na2O (0.8 to 1.46), low Nb/Th (<1), Lan/Sm...

Base metal mineralization at the Baal Gammon and Isabel deposits of Herberton Mineral Field (HMF) is hosted in metamorphosed greywacke beds Hodgkinson Formation, which were intruded by granite, porphyry dykes overlain volcanic rocks Kennedy Igneous Association during Carboniferous Permian. The tin deposit a silicified, chlorite-altered, quartz-feldspar (UNA Porphyry). polymetallic veins hosting...

Volatile-rich intermediate to silicic magmatic systems can feed devastating volcanic eruptions but also generate valuable magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits that supply most of the world's copper. Understanding geometry, dynamics and timescales these is critical in developing models for predicting occurrence future large eruptions. Here, we use zircon petrochronology from an equigranular monzon...

With the advancement of use geophysical methods in mining exploration, possibility restudying known mineral deposits that could have greater potential than previously estimated is opening up, as case Maricunga Belt (MB), which a metallogenic belt located east Copiapó, Chile, with length 200 km and oriented NNE-SSW direction. This hosts significant gold classified porphyry (-copper), epithermal ...