Since the concept of mineral systems was first proposed, there have been growing calls for
their use in deriving holistic genetic models and in assisting in exploration targeting in a …

Abstract The North American Cordilleran Anatectic Belt (CAB) is a~ 3,000 km long region in
the hinterland of the Cordillera that comprises numerous exposures of Late Cretaceous to …

Porphyry Cu systems host some of the most widely distributed mineralization types at
convergent plate boundaries, including porphyry deposits centered on intrusions; skarn …

Porphyry copper deposits account for more than 80% of the world's total Cu resources.
However, the formation mechanism and controlling factors of porphyry copper deposits …

Extensive research during the 20 th century on porphyry Cu (-Mo-Au) deposits has revealed
the following major geodynamic, petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical features that …

Techniques for GIS-based multicriteria decision-making (GIS-MCDM), like mineral
prospectivity mapping (MPM), are concerned with combining information from several …

Uranium-lead ages and trace element compositions of zircon from a series of shallow
porphyry intrusions document the temporal, chemical, and thermal magmatic evolution of …

This paper deals with the earliest stages of formation of porphyry Cu deposits, starting with
the production of partial melts in the mantle and ending where upper crustal magmas reach …

The Wenquan porphyry moybdenium deposit, Western Qinling, NW China, with a resource
of 247 million tonnes at 0.048% Mo, formed during Triassic collision between South China …

The Dabaoshan polymetallic deposits in the Nanling Range, South China, consist of
porphyry and skarn-type Mo mineralization genetically related to Jurassic porphyritic …