Prolonged Mesozoic intracontinental gold mineralization in the South China Block controlled by lithosphere architecture and evolving Paleo-Pacific Plate subduction

Y Zeng, Q Wang, DI Groves, M Santosh, Y Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The diverse types of Mesozoic intracontinental gold mineralization in the South China Block
(SCB) are genetically linked to prolonged oceanic plate subduction. These gold deposits …

Investigating sulfur pathways through the lithosphere by tracing mass independent fractionation of sulfur to the Lady Bountiful orogenic gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton

C LaFlamme, JW Jamieson, ML Fiorentini… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
As sulfur is the primary complexing ligand for gold transport in aqueous fluids, recent work
has demonstrated that the Archean systems can preserve mass independent fractionation of …

Giant Mesozoic gold ores derived from subducted oceanic slab and overlying sediments

KF Qiu, J Deng, C Laflamme, ZY Long, RQ Wan… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Orogenic gold deposits account for more than 30% of the global gold resources. To
understand the genesis of orogenic gold deposits and ultimately target new orogenic gold …

[HTML][HTML] The sulfur isotope evolution of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids: Insights into ore-forming processes

W Hutchison, AA Finch, AJ Boyce - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal-rich fluids that circulate in magmatic-hydrothermal environments form a wide array of
economically significant ore deposits. Unravelling the origins and evolution of these fluids is …

A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits

IK Pitcairn, N Leventis, G Beaudoin, S Faure… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The sources of metals enriched in Archean orogenic gold deposits have long been debated.
Metasedimentary rocks, which are generally accepted as the main metal source in …

Metal remobilization and ore-fluid perturbation during episodic replacement of auriferous pyrite from an epizonal orogenic gold deposit

YF Wu, K Evans, JW Li, D Fougerouse… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Mineral-scale episodic replacement of auriferous pyrite by texturally-complex pyrite,
marcasite and minor arsenopyrite occurred in breccia ores from the Daqiao epizonal …

Pyrite trace element and S-Pb isotopic evidence for contrasting sources of metals and ligands during superimposed hydrothermal events in the Dongping gold deposit …

H Li, DP Zhu, TJ Algeo, M Li, WC Jiang, SF Chen… - Mineralium …, 2023 - Springer
The Dongping gold deposit, located near the northern margin of the North China Craton,
contains ore bodies spatially associated with the Devonian Shuiquangou syenite …

Complementary textural, trace element, and isotopic analyses of sulfides constrain ore-forming processes for the slate-hosted Yuhengtang Au deposit, South China

W Li, NJ Cook, GQ Xie, JW Mao… - Economic …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Yuhengtang is a representative slate-hosted Au deposit in the Jiangnan orogenic belt, South
China, with a reserve of~ 55 t Au and an average grade of~ 3.9 g/t. Gold mineralization is …

Light stable isotopes (H, B, C, O and S) in ore studies—methods, theory, applications and uncertainties

DL Huston, RB Trumbull, G Beaudoin… - Isotopes in Economic …, 2023 - Springer
Variations in the abundances of light stable isotopes, particularly those of hydrogen, boron,
carbon, oxygen and sulfur, were essential in developing mineralization models. The data …

In situ chemical and isotopic analyses and element mapping of multiple-generation pyrite: Evidence of episodic gold mobilization and deposition for the Qiucun …

Y Ma, SY Jiang, HE Frimmel, LY Zhu - American Mineralogist, 2022 - degruyter.com
Gold deposits are often the result of complex mineralization and remobilization processes.
Interpretation of bulk geochemical and sulfur isotope data of the gold deposits is frequently …