The hydration and complexation of metals in hydrothermal fluids are key processes
controlling the mobility of elements in the Earth's crust, leading to the formation of ore …

Geological aqueous fluids operate in a wide range of temperatures (from 0 to 1000 C) and
depths (from Earth surface to~ 10s km), over which the physical-chemical properties of water …

Abstract Arsenic (As) and gold (Au) are closely associated in many gold deposits, both being
hosted in Fe-sulfide minerals (pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite), partly because As …

Current models of the formation and distribution of gold deposits on Earth are based on the
long-standing paradigm that hydrogen sulfide and chloride are the ligands responsible for …

Thermodynamic calculations are an essential tool for many areas of geochemistry.
Thermodynamics provides a framework for the quantitative description and prediction of the …

The Jiaodong gold province in northeastern China is the country's premier gold resource
and globally one of the most important gold provinces. The late Early Cretaceous gold …

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 …

The metasomatized sub-continental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is increasingly proposed to
play a key control in the formation of giant gold (Au) deposits. However, the extent of Au …

The giant Carlin-type Au deposits (Nevada, USA) contain gold hosted in arsenic-rich iron
sulfide (pyrite), but the processes controlling the sequestration of Au in these hydrothermal …

Scavenging of gold during metamorphic devolatilization is a widely accepted model for fluid
and metal sourcing in orogenic gold deposits. In order to further constrain this process and …