Pyritic shale horizons of the Newland Formation (Belt Series, Mid-Proterozoic) show striking similarities to Proterozoic pyritic shales elsewhere that are host to major lead-zinc deposits, such as Mt. Isa and McArthur River. However, in contrast to these deposits the pyritic shales of the Newland Formation contain only minute quantities of lead and zinc. Elevated concentrations of lead and zinc...

Iranian Cenozoic magmatic belt, known as Urumieh-Dokhtar, is recognized as an important polymetallic mineralization which hosts porphyry, epithermal, and polymetallic skarn deposits. In this regard, multivariate analyses are generally used to extract significant anomalous geochemical signature of the mineral deposits. In this study, stepwise factor analysis, cluster analysis, and concentration–...

neyshabour turquoise mine is located in northwest of neyshabour, southern quchan volcanic belt. eocene andesite and dacite forming as lava and pyroclastic rocks cover most of the area. subvolcanic diorite to syenite porphyry (granitoids of magnetite series) intruded the volcanic rocks. both volcanic and subvolcanic rocks are highly altered. four types of alteration are recognized including: sil...

The Qulong porphyry copper and molybdenum deposit is located at the southwest margin of the Lhasa Terrane and in the eastern region of the Gangdese magmatic belt. It represents China’s largest porphyry copper system, with ∼2200 million tonnes of ore comprising 0.5 % Cu and 0.03 % Mo. The mineralization is associated with Miocene granodiorite, monzogranite and quartz-diorite units, which intrude...

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 ...

An assemblage of hydrous, Cl-bearing alteration-induced minerals is present within 150 m of footwall-style Cu–Ni–PGE sulfide mineralization hosted by the Sudbury Breccia at the Fraser Copper zone, Fraser mine, Onaping–Levack area, Ontario. The pyroxene hornfels to hornblende hornfels contact-metamorphic aureole of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) contains less than 15 modal % hydroxysilicates....

The Tonggou deposit is a porphyry Cu and vein-type Cu-Zn mineralization system located in the Bogda Orogenic Belt, north of Eastern Tianshan. Systematic fluid inclusion analyses were performed on granular quartz from magnetite–quartz stage pyrite–chalcopyrite–quartz mineralization. During early mineralization, ore-forming fluids at high temperatures (450–501 °C) salinity (51.2–55.2 wt.% NaCl eq...

Stratabound deposits within late Carboniferous carbonate units in the Middle–Lower Yangtze River metallogenic belt are important copper producers in China. Hitherto, the genesis of these deposits has been debated, due to poor constraints regarding the timing and source of the mineralization. Proposed models include a late Carboniferous seafloor exhalative formation (SEDEX), or an Early Cretaceo...