Gold deposits in metamorphic belts: overview of current understanding, outstanding problems, future research, and exploration significance

DI Groves, RJ Goldfarb, F Robert… - Economic …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Metamorphic belts are complex regions where accretion or collision has added to, or
thickened, continental crust. Gold-rich deposits can be formed at all stages of orogen …

An introduction to remobilization: information from ore-body geometry and experimental considerations

B Marshall, LB Gilligan - Ore Geology Reviews, 1987 - Elsevier
Mobilization involves the translocation and concentration of originally dispersed metallic
constituents; remobilization is the translocation resulting in modified concentration and …

The composition of the Earth

WF McDonough, SS Sun - Chemical geology, 1995 - Elsevier
Compositional models of the Earth are critically dependent on three main sources of
information: the seismic profile of the Earth and its interpretation, comparisons between …

Formation of gold deposits: a metamorphic devolatilization model

GN Phillips, R Powell - Journal of Metamorphic geology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A metamorphic devolatilization model can explain the enrichment, segregation, timing,
distribution and character of many goldfields such as those found in Archean greenstone …

The role of komatiitic and picritic magmatism and S-saturation in the formation of ore deposits

RR Keays - Lithos, 1995 - Elsevier
The introduction of high temperature, high magnesium komatiitic and picritic magmas into
the Earth's upper crust has given rise either directly or indirectly to many of the world's major …

Chemical composition and origin of the Earth's primitive mantle

SS Sun - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1982 - Elsevier
An attempt has been made to estimate the chemical composition of the earth's primitive
mantle by a critical evaluation of data derived from ultramafic mantle samples and partial …

Trace element mobility during hydrothermal alteration of oceanic basalts

SE Humphris, G Thompson - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 1978 - Elsevier
Trace element analyses have been carried out on hydrothermally altered pillow basalts of
greenschist facies dredged from the median valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Sr is leached …

Hydrothermal alteration of oceanic basalts by seawater

SE Humphris, G Thompson - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1978 - Elsevier
Hydrothermally altered pillow basalts dredged from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and belonging to
the greenschist facies, have been studied in order to determine the mineralogical and …

Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization

W Sun, RJ Arculus, VS Kamenetsky, RA Binns - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
A relationship between convergent margin magmas and copper–gold ore mineralization has
long been recognized,,,,,. The nature of the genetic link is controversial, particularly whether …

Anhydrous partial melting of a fertile and depleted peridotite from 2 to 30 kb and application to basalt petrogenesis

TJ Falloon, DH Green, CJ Hatton… - Journal of Petrology, 1988 - academic.oup.com
Reversal experiments have been performed to check the method of Jaques & Green (1980)
to determine equilibrium partial melts from peridotite compositions. Reversals of the Jaques …