We evaluated the significance of iron and manganese content in sphalerite as a tool for distinguishing between low-sulfidation intermediate-sulfidation epithermal deposits on basis new previously published electron probe microanalyses data Roșia Montană ore deposit available microchemical from Neogene located Apuseni Mountains Baia Mare region, Romania. Two compositional trends Fe vs. Mn were d...

Numerous important Miocene and early Pliocene epithermal Au-Ag deposits are present in the northern Great Basin. Most deposits are spatially and temporally related to two magmatic assemblages: bimodal basaltrhyolite and western andesite. These magmatic assemblages are petrogenetic suites that reflect variations in tectonic environment of magma generation. The bimodal assemblage is a K-rich thol...

the tajroud vein system is located 190 km southwest of mashhad, and in the southern part of the sabzevar zone. the vein host rocks consist of eocene intermediate to silicic volcanic rocks. the mineralization occurs as open space filling, taking place as veins, veinlets and hydrothermal breccias. based on field geology and textural evidence, three main stages of mineralization were identified. s...

This review paper aims to integrate geological, tectonic and metallogenetic data, including new propose a regional model for the gold (and base metal) mineralization in south Amazonian Craton support mineral exploration concerning magmatic–hydrothermal deposits. The Proterozoic evolution of comprises accretion terrains Archean Carajás Mineral Province. In Tapajós Juruena provinces, located at p...

the gandy gold-base metal deposit is located in tertiary torud-chahshirin volcano-plutonic range, north of central iran. various styles of gold mineralization occur throughout the range. mineralization at gandy occurs in close spatial relation with rhyolitic domes in a caldera setting in a series of narrow brecciated veins. two mineralogically and spatially different argillic alterations have a...

Tertiary low sulfidation (LS) epithermal deposits in the western USA often show evidence of the former presence of nanoparticle-sized precious-metal and silica phases in the highest grade (bonanza) ores. Here, nanoparticles are defined to have a size less than ~10 m. The ore-mineral textures that formed from aggregation of nanoparticles (or colloids) observed to date in these ores include elect...