Although fluid inclusions were apparently known to early naturalists, actual research on fluid and melt inclusions began only in the mid-1800s and grew very slowly for the next 100 years. Russian scientists began systematic studies of inclusions in the 1930s, but it was not until about 1960 that publications mentioning or using fluid inclusions began to increase from a few each year to the pres...

Several Cyprus-type volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits occur in the Jurassic ophiolitic series of the Northern Apennines. Stratabound, stratiform and stockwork deposits were formed in the western limb of the Neotethys (Ligurian Ocean) and are observed today in basalt, gabbro and serpentinised peridotite host rocks. The studied stockwork deposit at Boccassuolo occurs in basalt and basa...

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