Orogenic gold: Common or evolving fluid and metal sources through time

RJ Goldfarb, DI Groves - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Orogenic gold deposits of all ages, from Paleoarchean to Tertiary, show consistency in
chemical composition. They are the products of aqueous-carbonic fluids, with typically 5–20 …

Parameters for the formation of orogenic gold deposits

D Gaboury - Applied Earth Science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Orogenic gold deposits are the main source of gold for humanity. These deposits formed
from the Archaean to Phanerozoic at crustal depths of more than 4 km. The key parameters …

A holistic model for the origin of orogenic gold deposits and its implications for exploration

DI Groves, M Santosh, J Deng, Q Wang, L Yang… - Mineralium …, 2020 - Springer
The term orogenic gold deposits has been widely accepted, but there has been continuing
debate on their genesis. Early syn-sedimentary or syn-volcanic models and hydrothermal …

[HTML][HTML] The giant Jiaodong gold province: The key to a unified model for orogenic gold deposits?

DI Groves, M Santosh - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
Although the term orogenic gold deposit has been widely accepted for all gold-only lode-
gold deposits, with the exception of Carlin-type deposits and rare intrusion-related gold …

[HTML][HTML] A scale-integrated exploration model for orogenic gold deposits based on a mineral system approach

DI Groves, M Santosh, L Zhang - Geoscience Frontiers, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Concept-based orogenic gold exploration requires a scale-integrated approach
using a robust mineral system model. Most genetic hypotheses for orogenic gold deposits …

Orogenic gold and the mineral systems approach: Resolving fact, fiction and fantasy

DA Wyman, KF Cassidy, P Hollings - Ore Geology Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The fact that mineral deposit attributes such as the size frequency of orogenic gold deposits
in specific provinces exhibit power law distributions similar to forest fires, earthquakes, and …

[PDF][PDF] 造山型金矿研究进展: 兼论中国造山型金成矿作用

王庆飞, 邓军, 赵鹤森, 杨林, 马麒镒, 李华健 - 地球科学, 2019 - earth-science.net
造山型金矿指与大洋板块俯冲和陆块拼贴有关, 产在汇聚板块边界变质地体内部或者边缘受韧-
脆性断裂构造控制的, 成矿流体以低盐度H2O⁃ CO2⁃ CH4 为主要特征的, 成矿深度(2~ 20 km) …

Metabasalts as sources of metals in orogenic gold deposits

IK Pitcairn, D Craw, DAH Teagle - Mineralium Deposita, 2015 - Springer
Although metabasaltic rocks have been suggested to be important source rocks for orogenic
gold deposits, the mobility of Au and related elements (As, Sb, Se, and Hg) from these rocks …

Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

S Tassara, JM González-Jiménez, M Reich… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Gold enrichment at the crustal or mantle source has been proposed as a key ingredient in
the production of giant gold deposits and districts. However, the lithospheric-scale …

Caveats on tomographic images

GR Foulger, GF Panza, IM Artemieva, ID Bastow… - Terra …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Geological and geodynamic models of the mantle often rely on joint interpretations of
published seismic tomography images and petrological/geochemical data. This approach …