Geodynamic setting of gold deposits in eastern and central. Geodynamic setting of mesozoic magmatism in ne china and. As mineral deposits represent an integral part of tectonic process, they are essential indicators of that process and geodynamic settings, and should be incorporated into any holistic tectonic terrane analysis. Mineral resource assessment of colombia hodges and others, 1984. Classification of mineral deposits into types using. Oregenesis theories vary depending on the mineral or commodity examined oregenesis theories generally involve three components. A decade ago there wasnt such a deposit class, and perhaps there still shouldnt be. It contains information on location, geological environment, exploration history of metallic and industrial mineral deposits, as well as some building stone and aggregate sites. By laszlo keszthelyi, justin hagerty, amanda bowers, karl ellefsen, ian ridley, trude king, david trilling, nicholas moskovitz, and will grundy. In the second part i discuss the temporal evolution and distribution of mineral systems. However, the origin and original geodynamic setting of the two types of rutilebearing eclogites remain controversial. Pdf classification of mineral deposits into types using. It is an area characterized by multiple stages of phanerozoic continental growth, during which several porphyry and epithermal systems were formed. Various theories of ore genesis explain how the various types of mineral deposits form within the earths crust.
The us has no active nickel mines or nickel reserves. Epithermal deposits in north xinjiang, nw china springerlink. The gtks mineral deposit database contains all mineral deposits, occurrences and prospects in finland. As mineral deposits represent an integral part of tectonic process, they are essential indicators of that process and geodynamic settings, and should be incorporated into any holistic tectonic.
There are two main approaches to mineral deposit classification. As they require the conjunction of specific environmental conditions to form, particular mineral deposit types tend to occupy specific geodynamic. They form within postrift sequences when hydrothermal fluids associated with magmatic activity are expelled at the seabed. Plate boundaries are part of a global system of transfer of heat and chemicals between the. Classification of mineral deposits geology for investors. Location, type, mineralogy, name, tonnage and grade, and geological setting for 120 deposits of this type.
Pdf 18556 k pdf plus 2112 k new constraints on the genesis and geodynamic setting of the wulong gold deposit, liaodong peninsula, northeast china. The expected grade distribution for the mining operation was effectively modelled, allowing the client to investigate the expected ore reserves as a function of. An association with accretionary tectonic regimes robert kerrich. Read geodynamic setting of the zijinshan porphyryepithermal cuaumoag ore system, sw fujian province, china. The data are presented in filemaker pro, excel and text files to make the. In the commodity lists, blue indicates critical commodities, underlined bold indicates.
One of these districts includes the copperstone mine, which has yielded several hundred thousand ounces of gold spencer and others, 1988. Xihui cheng, a b c jiuhua xu, c fuquan yang, b guorui zhang, d hui zhang, c chunjing bian, c qingpo xue e. The relationships of mineral textures and minor structures indicate that the tungsten queen deposit formed by openspace fillings of linear faults or fractures and was subsequently deformed by at. Read geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis and geodynamic setting of the qianlishan granitic pluton, southeast china, mineralogy and petrology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The sedimentary rocks associated with continental rifts host important deposits of both minerals and hydrocarbons. Nicu deposits these will be discussed under magmatic. Mineral deposits related to detachment faults formed within this tectonic setting and were the result of hydrothermal ascent of basin brines along detachment faults wilkins and others, 1986. Jul 29, 20 there are two main approaches to mineral deposit classification. Review papers on tectonic settings of mineral systems include kerrich et al. Mineral deposit profiles provide brief summaries of the types of mineral deposits found in british columbia.
Introduction ore deposits are crustal concentrations of useful elements that can be exploited at a pro. The altaisayan folded area is an example of a polyaccretionary orogenic system that resulted from the long evolution of the paleoasian ocean. An additional backwardlooking band in the vnir makes it possible to construct digital elevation models from bands 3 and 3b. The recent and active magmatic arcs of eastern papua new guinea png and the solomon islands are well endowed with sulfide mineralisation and include deposits such as ladolam, panguna and solwara 1. System we used both metadata and the full text of an article in the pdf. Apr 01, 2020 the mineral deposit inventory mdi provides an overview of mineral occurrences in the province of ontario. Aster swath width is 60km each scene is 60 x 60km which makes it useful for regional mapping. National instrument 43101 technical report for the rozino project, republic of bulgaria. Geodynamic settings of mineral deposit systems journal. This one day course is designed for geologists, prospectors, students, technical analysts and others involved with mineral exploration and investment.
These have now evolved to what is known as a genetic model, which includes theories on deposit formation as well as the physical properties of the mineral deposit. Table of content volume 1 sy01 gold through time and space. Metallogenic belt and mineral deposit maps of northeast asia pamphlet to accompany. An introduction free chm, pdf ebooks rapidshare download, more detailed. See sources and website for source data for a given mineral site. Mineral deposit occurrence model for the viburnum trend subregion. Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits, also known as vms ore deposits, are a type of. See area strip mining, contour strip mining, dredging, mountaintop removal, openpit mining. An integrated risk evaluation model for mineral deposits. These settings are often shalerich siliciclastic felsic or bimodal siliciclastic. Anomalous levels of molybdenum, tungsten, copper, lead, or zinc in soils, tills, stream sediments, and drainage waters may indicate the presence of an arcrelated porphyry molybdenum deposit.
They include descriptions of host rocks, mineralogy, alteration, tectonic setting, associations, genetic models, and exploration guides, and give typical examples with grades and tonnages. What is the use of a classification of mineral deposits. Beyond the firstorder assumption that deepocean mineral resources are likely to be proportionate to the area of the seafloor hannington et al. Types, characteristics, and geodynamic settings of. D future global mineral resources geochemical perspectives. A cluster of mineral prospects in the french roadoceanview area of southeast cape breton island could be one such target fig. Special licenses in the mineral sector translated exploration licences the moratorium on the issuance of new exploration licences has been repealed. Major types and timespace distribution of mesozoic ore. However, no competitive tender process has been introduced for granting new exploration licences. However, due to transit disruptions in some geographies, deliveries may be delayed.
Previous iterations of the amendments had proposed that a tender process would be. Sedimenthosted zinclead deposits of the world database. Mineral deposits represent extraordinary metal concentrations that form by magmatic. In order to determine whether it is desirable to quantify mineral deposit models further, a test of the ability of a probabilistic neural network to classify deposits into types based on mineralogy was conducted. Geodynamic settings of mineral deposit system request pdf. Mineral deposits definition of mineral deposits by medical. Removing soil, subsoil, and other strata and then extracting a mineral deposit found fairly close to the earths surface. Introduction and overview of mineral deposit modeling by dan l. Classification of mineral deposits into types using mineralogy with a probabilistic neural network article pdf available in natural resources research 61. Mineral scales and deposits scientific and technological approaches editedby drzahid amjad walsh university usa dr konstantinos d. Mineral deposits represent extraordinary metal concentrations that form by magmatic, magmatichydrothermal or hydrothermal processes in geodynamic environments typified by anomalously high thermal andor mechanical energy near plate boundaries. Some goldrich vms deposits with an epithermal metal budget may be submarine counterparts of terrestrial epithermal gold deposits. The majority of the mineral systems in this belt are younger than four million years old, with some deposits remaining active to the present day as exemplified by active hydrothermal systems on.
Diagrammatic sketch of the iron oxidecoppergold mineral system illustrating the relative location of deposits types within the overall setting and the likely distribution of critical and other commodities within and around these deposit types. Nonconfidential information from the advanced deposit information and tracking system data base covering worldwide market economy country mineral properties being evaluated by the division of minerals availability have been abstracted for use in this report. Sedex mineral deposits are found mainly in continental rift settings. The mineral systems approach was extended through the work of the predictive mineral. Iv characteristics of mineral deposits maria boni encyclopedia of life support systems eolss mineral deposits can been classified into two broad categories. Important geological vectors toward areas of higher grade mineralization include intensity of hydrothermal alteration, veining, and faulting.
Alaska alps australia australasia canadian shield gold ores mineral deposits. Samvel hovakimyan, robert moritz, rodrik tayan, rafael melkonyan, marianna harutyunyan. Ore deposit geology john ridley, colorado state university. Read types, characteristics, and geodynamic settings of mesozoic epithermal gold deposits in eastern china, resource geology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Real time analogs for all of these gold deposit classes are known in the geodynamic settings described, excepting iron oxide coppergold deposits.
Thermochemical modeling reveals ore deposit sourcetrap systems. Major in situ mineral and energy deposits in various tectonic settings. Numerous persons were also consulted regarding undescribed mineral deposits, and much valuable information was given by a. Compiled mineral occurrence site information from various sources and reorganized into a standardized format. It is emphasized that the earths evolution is a nonlinear process. Goldrich vms deposits develop in extensional geodynamic settings, where thinned lithosphere extension drives high heat flow and enhanced hydraulic conductivity, as for epithermal deposits. It in part reflects a history of mineral deposit model development within the usgs. Mineralium deposita in press, 2012 a unified model for gold.
Feasibility study for the quantitative assessment of mineral resources in asteroids. Early permian magmatichydrothermal gold mineral system in cape york, north queensland, australia 167 lisitsin, v. This report provides digital files for maps of mineral deposits and metallogenic belts of. The main metallogenic belts have been recognized, in which typical ore associations model types of mineral deposits and their ages and geodynamic settings of formation have been established. Mineral deposits of sedimentary origin occur in layers for example, deposits of coal, salts, phosphorites, aluminum and manganese ores, and limestone that are often intensively deformedbent into folds and broken by faults. The identified titanium reserves exceed 3 million tons and range in grade from 1. Geological survey open file report 20061150 version 1. Using deposit models to choose exploration targets and market properties short course vancouver sunday january 22, 2017 presented by david lefebure, phd. Each slide should be accompanied by a text explaining. The veintype gold mineralization in the eastern desert of egypt consists of sulphide minerals in stockwork quartz veins with hydrothermal alteration zones. Geochemistry of a komatiitic, boninitic, and tholeiitic. The geodynamic setting of dulan eclogitetype rutile. Mapping the spatial distribution and characteristics of lineaments. They are overlaid in places by quartzpebble conglomerates within the tarkwaian system, name after tarkwa, the second largest source of gold in ghana.
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the. The descriptive models are a more objective label, which describes the rocks and tectonic setting of the deposit. Ore controlsrestricted to dunite bodies in tectonized harzburgite or lower portions of ultramafic. Mineral deposits mineral systems and mineralising events. Metallogenic belt and mineral deposit maps of northeast asia. Feasibility study for the quantitative assessment of. The evolution is shown to predetermine the metallogenic potential of the area. A mineral deposit modelling and assessment expert system. Mineral deposit models usgs publications repository. Usgs a proximity rule is commonly to construct the grade and tonnage model workings within 1. Deposit description mineralogy chromite ferrichromite magnetite ruosir alloys laurite. Rare earth element occurrence database of the tien shan.
Special licenses in the mineral sector exploration licences. Mineral deposit article about mineral deposit by the free. Introduction and overview of mineral deposit modeling. Groves centre for exploration targeting and tectonics special research centre, school of earth and geographical sciences, the university of western australia, crawley, w. For the first part of this chapter i draw from these works and discuss the tectonic environment of mineral systems. A detailed gis compilation of northeast asia geodynamics, mineral. Read geodynamic setting of mesozoic magmatism in ne china and surrounding regions. The overlying gneisses are rusty due to the presence of pyrite and pyrrhotite 515% interlayered with the rusty feldspathic gneiss are thin pyroxenitecarbonate horizons which frequently contain apatite. Heineman for the use of the mineral files of the arizona bureau of mines and to dr. Case study 1 rwe produced a mineral resource model of a platinumpalladium deposit in the bushveld complex, south africa. New constraints on the genesis and geodynamic setting of. In order to determine whether it is desirable to quantify mineral deposit models further, a test of the ability of a probabilistic neural network to classify deposits into. Geological survey open file report 11552008, 44 pp.
Mineral deposit models mineral deposit models that describe the characteristics that are considered by the authors of the model to represent key aspects of the type of mineral deposit that is sought within a particular setting. This paper highlights the geodynamic evolution of the early precambrian rock associations in the northwestern part of the russian arctic where the rocks are exposed in the kola region northeastern baltic shield. Dietary requirements for minerals range from molar to trace amountsday. Descriptions of metallogenic belts, methodology, and. Model types presented include descriptive, gradetonnage, geoenvironmental, and geophysical. We address the composition, mantle sources, possible crustal contamination, and the geodynamic context of melt generation over time, and for intercomparison with the geodynamic settings of other mineral deposits in archean terranes. The theoretical part includes a discussion of the common optical properties of elements, oxides, and sulfides under the reflected light microscope. Structure of the new database was created in 2012 and it is based on global geostandards geosciml and earthresourceml and classifications related to them. Geodynamic setting, crustal architecture, and vms metallogeny of ca. Instructions for authors a fundamental condition of this journal is that no manuscript submitted will be published elsewhere and that the scientific results presented are essentially new. Thus, distinct mineral deposits with certain characteristics of oreforming elements, orecontrolling structures, spatialtemporal distributions, and related magmatic rocks reflect their corresponding geodynamic framework. Cenozoic strikeslip tectonics and structural controls of. The veins cut neoproterozoic rocks along contacts between granite intrusions and island arc.
This cdrom publication is a compilation of 29 previously published mineral deposit model and related reports of the usgs. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account. Mcqueen crc leme, australian national university, canberra, act 0200 and school of rehs, university of canberra, act 2601. Demadis university of crete greece elsevier amsterdam boston heidelberg london newyork oxford paris sandiego sanfrancisco singapore sydney tokyo. Pdf the characteristics, origins and geodynamic setting. This bureau of mines open file report is a directory of 23 major mineral commodities, both foreign and domestic. The characteristics, origins, and geodynamic settings of. The north xinjiang region nw china is an important part of the central asia orogenic belt, situated at the junction of siberia, tarim and kazakhstan plates. Department of geological sciences, university of saskatchewan, saskatoon, saskatchewan, s7n 0w0, canada. Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel. Geodynamic settings of mineral deposit systems david i.
Cenozoic strikeslip tectonics and structural controls of porphyry cumo and epithermal deposits during geodynamic evolution of the southernmost lesser caucasus, tethyan metallogenic belt. Mineral resources information, along with the geologic, geochemical, and. Bliss introduction activities in mineral deposit modeling have continued to develop on several fronts since the publication of mineral deposit models, edited by cox and singer 1986. Geodynamic setting of the zijinshan porphyryepithermal cu. Mineral deposit systems are heterogeneously but not randomly distributed in time and space, and their genesis has been correlated with specific conditions and tectonic settings groves and. Infer that the other rock types have been structurally removed. An introduction ashok mineral processing design and operations is expected to be of use to the design and operation.
Limitations of mineralsystems approach preservation considered important but listed factors do not include features critical for preservation age, duration and relative timing of events in a mineral system do not receive adequate attention requires change to focus on giant instead of averagesize deposits. An important advancement in the field of mineral exploration is the concept of common earth model, in which the expert understanding of a mineral deposit is captured and stored in a 3d gis with an aim that the same can be utilized by the explorationist. Most mineral deposit types are formed in geodynamic settings on the convergent margins fig. On the other hand, quite diverse deposit types may form synchronously y separatedbut spatiallwithin the same broad orogen. Tectonic settings, geodynamics and temporal evolution of. Disparate tectonic settings for mineralisation in an. This publication contains a computer file of information on sediment hosted zinclead deposits from around the world. Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit wikipedia. Pdf mineral deposits of north africa, mineral resource. Faculty of engineering, computer and mathematical sciences.
Perspectives from spatiotemporal distribution patterns of ore deposits, journal of asian earth sciences on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Conclusion in this study, an attempt has been made to determine the geodynamic settings of gold deposits in eastern and central transbaikalia using new ideas on tectonics and geodynamics that arose from the research on the siberianmongolian transects zzorin et. Economic geology is a mixtum compositum of all geoscientific disciplines focused on one goal, finding new mineral depsosits and enhancing their exploi. The chessboard classification scheme of mineral deposits.
Characteristics of mineral deposit occurrences compiled by ralph. If, however, mineral and energy deposits are secondary in origin and entered the host rocks later such as by hydrothermal fluids or migration of oil, they may have formed in a tectonic setting different from the host rocks. Estimates of the tonnages and amounts of contained metal in undiscovered deposits, mineral deposit types. From the days of agricola, the founder of the science of ore deposits, successive authors on the subject have attempted classifications, none of which have attained unanimous endorsement of miners, engineers, or geologists. The second part section 5 deals with a brief overview of mineral deposits and their classification. However, recent research indicates that the gold found in the tarkwaian rocks is not derived from the birimian terranes. Most rivers draining the birimian rocks hold alluvial gold deposits. Geochemical assemblages in orogenic gold deposits of the abitibi greenstone belt, canada. A comprehensive study of a mineral deposit comprises three essential steps. More than 60 mineral deposit types based on more than 2,500 deposits from around the world e. The regional lineaments of iran have been identified using geographic information system gis software to explore metallic ore deposits. The rutile deposits of economic interest are found within two types of eclogite.
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