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What is the Future Road for Mineral Exploration in the 21st Century?
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Crustal structure control on porphyry copper systems in accretionary orogens: insights from Nd isotopic map** in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Porphyry Cu deposits (PCDs) are major global exploration targets for Cu, Mo, and Au, and mainly formed in accretionary orogens. This study integrates the whole-rock geochemical and Nd isotopic map** based on...
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Advances in Isotope Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry: A Preface
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Open AccessMultiple-Stage Mineralization in the Huayangchuan U−REE−Mo−Cu−Fe Ore Belt of the Qinling Orogen, Central China: Geological and Re−Os Geochronological Constraints
The Huayangchuan ore belt is located in the western segment of **aoqinling Orogen in the southern margin of the North China Craton (NCC), and hosts voluminous magmatism and significant U−REE−Mo−Cu−Fe polymetal...
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Hydrothermal alteration processes of fluorapatite and implications for REE remobilization and mineralization
Apatite-rich rocks from marine phosphorites, alkaline igneous complexes, and iron-oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits commonly contain elevated but sub-economic contents of rare earth elements (REE). In this stu...
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Experiments on the characteristics of breach variations due to natural dam overtop**
Natural dams are a common geological disaster that can threaten the safety of people and buildings for several hundreds of kilometres downstream. However, the failure characteristics of natural dams are still ...
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Mesozoic porphyry Cu–Au mineralization and associated adakite-like magmatism in the Philippines: insights from the giant Atlas deposit
The Atlas porphyry Cu–Au deposit is located in central Cebu Island in the Philippines, with a proven mineral reserve of 1420 Mt at 0.45% Cu, 0.24 g/t Au, 0.018 g/t Mo, and 1.8 g/t Ag. It is associated with the...
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Multiple mineralization events of the Paleozoic Tuwu porphyry copper deposit, Eastern Tianshan: evidence from geology, fluid inclusions, sulfur isotopes, and geochronology
The Tuwu porphyry Cu deposit, located in Eastern Tianshan, NW China, is hosted by a plagiogranite porphyry and Carboniferous Qi’eshan Group volcanic rocks. Based on crosscutting relationships and mineral assem...
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Re-Os pyrite geochronology of Zn-Pb mineralization in the giant Caixiashan deposit, NW China
The newly discovered Caixiashan Irish-type Zn-Pb deposit (∼131 Mt at 3.95 % Zn + Pb), located in the Eastern Tianshan of **njiang, is one of the largest Zn-Pb deposits in NW China. Massive colloform/framboidal...
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Ore genesis of the Weibao lead–zinc district, Eastern Kunlun Orogen, China: constrains from ore geology, fluid inclusion and isotope geochemistry
The Weibao lead–zinc district, composed by two deposits named the East Weibao deposit and the West Weibao deposit, respectively, is located in the Qimantagh area, Eastern Kunlun Orogen. Although both controlle...
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Pyrite trace element geochemistry of mafic granulite xenoliths from **keer: implications for the source of Cu in the sediment-hosted mineralization in the northwestern Tarim Basin (Northwest China)
The **keer mafic granulite xenoliths are hosted by a Cenozoic basanite sill (∼20 Ma) in the northwest Tarim Basin, northwest China. Sulfides, identified in these xenoliths consist mainly of pyrite. Two groups ...
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Contrasting fluids and reservoirs in the contiguous Marcona and Mina Justa iron oxide–Cu (–Ag–Au) deposits, south-central Perú
The Marcona–Mina Justa deposit cluster, hosted by Lower Paleozoic metaclastic rocks and Middle Jurassic shallow marine andesites, incorporates the most important known magnetite mineralization in the Andes at ...