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...

In this paper, we aim to achieve two specific objectives. The first one is to examine the applicability of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) technique in ore grade estimation. Different training algorithms and numbers of hidden neurons are applied to estimate Cu grade of borehole data in the hypogene zone of porphyry copper-gold deposit, Masjed-Daghi, East Azerbaijan Province (Iran). The ef...

The Paraíba is an Au-Cu-Mo deposit located in the southern part of Amazon Craton, Alta Floresta Mineral Province, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. It composed Au-Cu-bearing quartz veins and Cu-Mo-rich hydrothermal breccias stockworks, both associated with several alteration zones. integration spectral (reflectance imaging spectroscopy) conventional techniques (core logging, petrography, mineral chemi...

Recent studies argue that subduction-modified, Cu-fertilized lithosphere controls the formation of porphyry Cu deposits in orogenic belts. However, it is unclear if and how this fertilization process operates at cratonic edges, where numerous large non-arc Au-rich deposits form. Here we report data from lower crustal amphibolite and garnet amphibolite xenoliths hosted by Cenozoic stocks that ar...

introduction the kahang cu- mo deposit is situated approximately 73 km northeast of isfahan. asadi (2007) identified a geological reserve of 40 mt (proven reserve) grading at 0.53 cu, 0.02 mo and estimated reserve of 120 mt. all the rock types in the region have been subjected to hydrothermal solutions which gave rise to three different alteration facies. the dacite and rhyodacite volcanic rock...

The Shand Cu-Mo deposit is located in the Orkhon-Selenge depression, Northern Mongolia. It lies near Erdenetiin Ovoo porphyry deposit, which together define one of Mongolian’s most economically significant metallogenic belts. In (Au?) several ore related breccia types are associated with porphyritic granodiorite intrusions, and they contain pre-, synand post-mineralized stocks, magmatic-hydroth...

In this work, the concentration gradient (CG) analysis of local-scale exploration for Porphyry-Cu deposits is applied in two zones using the G(Vz) index (CG(Zn*Pb)/CG(Cu*Mo)). The first zone is covered by a 1:2000 map of the Sungun and Astamal areas in NW Iran and the second one in the Inza area in British Columbia, Canada. The rock samples are taken from Sungun and Astamal and the soil samples...

The Northparkes district, central New South Wales, hosts several economic Cu–Au deposits associated with discrete, thin, porphyry intrusive complexes emplaced in the Late Ordovician during formation of Macquarie Arc. recently discovered Two-Thirty Cu–Au–(Mo) prospect is a mineralised magmatic–hydrothermal breccia complex that hosted by moderately east-dipping Goonumbla Volcanic Complex on weste...