Giant ore deposits contain anomalously large quantities of metal and are priority targets for
mineral exploration companies. It is debated whether these giant deposits have a unique …

As the archetype of mountain building in subduction zones, the Central Andes has
constituted an excellent example for investigating mountain-building processes for decades …

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

More than half of the 25 largest known porphyry copper deposits, defined in terms of
contained copper metal, formed during three time periods: the Paleocene to Eocene …

Determining the absolute duration of magmatic-hydrothermal events leading to the formation
of porphyry systems (ie, including porphyry copper, skarn, and epithermal deposits) is one of …

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 …

The magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of the El Teniente porphyry Cu-Mo deposit in the
Central Andes in Chile is reconstructed based on field relationships, scanning electron …

Porphyry deposits are copper-rich orebodies formed by precipitation of metal sulphides from
hydrothermal fluids released from magmatic intrusions that cooled at depth within the Earth's …

This study presents a new laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-
ICPMS) based U-Pb geochronometric method for dating grossular-andradite (grandite) …

The Andes, in particular their central parts, have been known as a preeminent Cu province
for more than 100 years and have been the source of many innovative metallogenic …