Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits

JW Park, IH Campbell, M Chiaradia, H Hao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Porphyry deposits are large, low-grade metal ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal
fluids derived from an underlying magma reservoir. They are important as major sources of …

Transport and deposition of immiscible sulfide liquid during lateral magma flow

Z Yao, JE Mungall - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Magmatic sulfide deposits are generated by extraordinary accumulations of immiscible
sulfide liquids in ultramafic-mafic magmas. While their associated geochemical and …

Mobilisation of deep crustal sulfide melts as a first order control on upper lithospheric metallogeny

DA Holwell, ML Fiorentini, TR Knott, I McDonald… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magmatic arcs are terrestrial environments where lithospheric cycling and recycling of
metals and volatiles is enhanced. However, the first-order mechanism permitting the …

Fluxing of mantle carbon as a physical agent for metallogenic fertilization of the crust

DE Blanks, DA Holwell, ML Fiorentini, M Moroni… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magmatic systems play a crucial role in enriching the crust with volatiles and elements that
reside primarily within the Earth's mantle, including economically important metals like …

The critical role of magma degassing in sulphide melt mobility and metal enrichment

G Iacono-Marziano, M Le Vaillant, BM Godel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Much of the world's supply of battery metals and platinum group elements (PGE) comes from
sulphide ore bodies formed in ancient sub-volcanic magma plumbing systems. Research on …

Linking the Siberian Flood Basalts and Giant Ni‐Cu‐PGE Sulfide Deposits at Norilsk

Z Yao, JE Mungall - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The world‐class magmatic sulfide deposits in the Norilsk region exhibit a remarkable spatial
and temporal association with the Siberian large igneous province (LIP). However, the …

Characterizing the supra-and subsolidus processes that generated the Current PGE–Cu–Ni deposit, Thunder Bay North Intrusive Complex, Canada: insights from …

M Brzozowski, P Hollings, G Heggie, A MacTavish… - Mineralium …, 2023 - Springer
The Current deposit is hosted by serpentinized peridotite that intruded rocks of the Quetico
Subprovince in the Midcontinent Rift, and is subdivided into three morphologically distinct …

Transfer of sulfur and chalcophile metals via sulfide-volatile compound drops in the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field

CGC Patten, S Hector, S Kilias, M Ulrich… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient transfer of S and chalcophile metals through the Earth's crust in arc systems is
paramount for the formation of large magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits. The formation of …

Sulfur dissolution capacity of highly hydrated and fluid-saturated dacitic magmas at the lower crust and implications for porphyry deposit formation

T Xu, X Liu, X Xiong, J Wang - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Arc basalts with high H 2 O content are expected to evolve into highly hydrated felsic melts
saturated with aqueous fluids at lower crustal pressures, which are potentially important in …

Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids

CA Heinrich, JAD Connolly - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Loss of magmatic sulfides to the mantle is posited to explain the copper deficit of evolved arc
magmas and the depleted Cu/Ag ratio of the continental crust. We address the question of …