Towards a universal model for orogenic gold systems: A perspective based on Chinese examples with geodynamic, temporal, and deposit-scale structural and …

Q Wang, L Yang, H Zhao, DI Groves, W Weng… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the term orogenic gold has become widely accepted over the past 20 years for
disseminated-to lode-style gold deposits that formed in a variety of tectonic environments …

100th Anniversary Special Paper: Vapor Transport of Metals and the Formation of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore Deposits

AE Williams-Jones, CA Heinrich - Economic Geology, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In most published hydrothermal ore deposit models, the main agent of metal transport is an
aqueous liquid. However, there is increasing evidence from volcanic vapors, geothermal …

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 …

Gold in solution

AE Williams-Jones, RJ Bowell, AA Migdisov - Elements, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although gold is a noble metal and is effectively insoluble even in strong acids, we have
known for nearly 500 years that it can be concentrated to mineable levels by being …

The physical and chemical evolution of low-salinity magmatic fluids at the porphyry to epithermal transition: a thermodynamic study

CA Heinrich - Mineralium Deposita, 2005 - Springer
Fluid-phase relationships and thermodynamic reaction modelling based on published
mineral solubility data are used to re-assess the Cu–Au-mineralising fluid processes related …

A review of the coordination chemistry of hydrothermal systems, or do coordination changes make ore deposits?

J Brugger, W Liu, B Etschmann, Y Mei, DM Sherman… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
The hydration and complexation of metals in hydrothermal fluids are key processes
controlling the mobility of elements in the Earth's crust, leading to the formation of ore …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] 13.2–The chemistry of metal transport and deposition by ore-forming hydrothermal fluids

TM Seward, AE Williams-Jones… - Treatise on …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Economically exploitable deposits of metallic minerals (ore deposits) form in the Earth's crust
through a variety of geologic processes. These involve extraction of metals at low …

Hydrothermal controls on metal distribution in porphyry Cu (-Mo-Au) systems

K Kouzmanov, GS Pokrovski - 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Magmatic vapor contraction and the transport of gold from the porphyry environment to epithermal ore deposits

CA Heinrich, T Driesner, A Stefánsson… - …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fluid-phase stability relations combined with thermodynamic modeling using fluid-inclusion
analyses and new gold-solubility experiments lead to an integrated geological interpretation …