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Kuh-e Dom Fe–Cu–Au prospect, Anarak Metallogenic Complex, Central Iran: a geological, mineralogical and fluid inclusion study
The Kuh-e Dom Fe–Cu–Au prospect is located in the Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Belt, and is characterized by copper–iron oxide and gold veins, stockworks...
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First whiffs of atmospheric oxygen triggered onset of crustal gold cycle
Lack of a suitable gold source has long been regarded as a major argument against a palaeoplacer model for the exceptionally well-endowed...
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Genesis of the hydrothermal gold deposits in the Canan area, Lepaguare District, Honduras
The Canan area (Honduras) is characterized by a gold-bearing ore deposit that is associated with quartz-veined shear zones. Gold mineralization...
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Geochemical characteristics and metallogenesis of Carlin-type gold deposits in the Sandu-Danzhai metallogenic zone, Guizhou Province, China
Geochemical studies of the Paiting and Miaolong Carlin-type gold deposits in the Sandu-Danzhai metallogenic zone, Guizhou Province, have shown that...
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Exploration of gold mineralization in a tropical region using Earth Observing-1 (EO1) and JERS-1 SAR data: a case study from Bau gold field, Sarawak, Malaysia
Bau gold mining district, located near Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, is a Carlin style gold deposits. Geological analyses coupled with remote sensing...
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Orogenic belts: South China, Central China and Qinling-Dabie, Hinggan
The South China Fold Belt, Qinling-Dabie-Sulu, Qilian and Hinggan orogens are reviewed in this chapter. The South China Fold Belt is the coastal part...
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Yangtze Craton, Cathaysia and the South China Block
The Yangzte Craton and Cathaysia were amalgamated, along a northeast-southwest trending fold belt or tectonic zone (Jiangshan-Shaoxing suture;...
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Tianshan, Junggar and Altay Orogens (NW China), the Alpine-Himalayan Fold Belts (Tethyan Orogens), Kunlun and Songpan-Ganzi Terranes
The Tianshan, Junggar and Altay orogenic belts in northwest China (**njiang) are part of the huge Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), which extends...
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A unified model for gold mineralisation in accretionary orogens and implications for regional-scale exploration targeting methods
Accretionary orogens are the sites of long-lived convergent margin tectonics, both compressional and extensional. They are also the hosts to the...
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Major types and time–space distribution of Mesozoic ore deposits in South China and their geodynamic settings
The ore deposits of the Mesozoic age in South China can be divided into three groups, each with different metal associations and spatial...
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Metallogeny and Distribution of Minerals
This chapter explains metallogeny, mineralization and paragenesis of all mineral deposits. It is also tried herein to put forth the distribution of...
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Limnology of Pit Lakes
Pit lakes can be very different from natural lakes and lakes created by damming up a stream or river, and pit lakes that are acidic are the most...
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Modelling spatial anisotropy of gold concentration data using GIS-based interpolated maps and variogram analysis: Implications for structural control of mineralization
Linear trends of anomalously high gold values in the Florida Canyon gold deposit, Nevada have been identified using a combination of contour maps of...
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Structural and geochronological studies on the Liba goldfield of the West Qinling Orogen, Central China
The Liba goldfield, located to the northeast of the Zhongchuan Granite in the West Qinling Orogen (WQO) of mainland China, contains the largest known...
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Topical issues of the theory of gold deposit formation
The issues of the theory of gold deposit formation are considered. These issues were crucial in the works by N.V. Petrovskaya. The systematics of...
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Zircon U-Pb dating and geochemical study of the **anggou granite in the Ma’anqiao gold deposit and its relationship with gold mineralization
Single zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating and lithogeochemical studies have been performed on the **anggou monzonitic granitic porphyry outcropped in the...
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Finding or acquiring giant deposits
An earlier quote stated that no “world class” deposit was discovered between 1996 and 2001. This, of course, depends on the magnitude threshold for...
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Cordilleran granitoids in convergent continental margins (lower, plutonic levels)
This Chapter is a review of the deeper, plutonic levels of convergent continental margins, the shallow levels of which (volcanics and sediments...
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Invisible gold in arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite from a multistage Archaean gold deposit: Sunrise Dam, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia
The Sunrise Dam gold mine (11.1 Moz Au) is the largest deposit in the Archaean Laverton Greenstone Belt (Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton,...
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Geological divisions that contain ore giants: introduction and the role of mantle
Ever since De Launay’s monumental Traité de Métallogenie book published in 1913, writers of text and reference books in economic geology (Lindgren,...