Copper and critical metals production from porphyry ores and E-wastes: A review of resource availability, processing/recycling challenges, socio-environmental …

CB Tabelin, I Park, T Phengsaart, S Jeon… - Resources …, 2021 - Elsevier
Porphyry ores and E-wastes/WEEE are two of the most important copper-bearing materials
on the planet. Over 60% of world copper output comes from porphyry copper ores while E …

A review of machine learning in processing remote sensing data for mineral exploration

H Shirmard, E Farahbakhsh, RD Müller… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The decline of the number of newly discovered mineral deposits and increase in demand for
different minerals in recent years has led exploration geologists to look for more efficient and …

Mercury isotope evidence for the importance of recycled fluids in collisional ore systems

B Xu, RS Yin, M Chiaradia, Z Miao, WL Griffin… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The sources of fluids and metals in porphyry systems of continental-collision settings are
poorly constrained. Mercury isotopes display unique mass-independent fractionation …

Lithospheric architecture of the Lhasa terrane and its control on ore deposits in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Z Hou, L Duan, Y Lu, Y Zheng, D Zhu… - Economic …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits in collisional orogens are new targets for modern
mineral exploration, yet it is unclear why they preferentially occur in some specific tectonic …

Skarn zonation of the giant Jiama Cu-Mo-Au deposit in southern Tibet, SW China

Q Shu, J Deng, Z Chang, Q Wang, X Niu… - Economic …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Jiama is a giant skarn-porphyry deposit in southern Tibet, southwestern China. It is the
largest Cu (~ 7.4 Mt), second largest Au (~ 208 t), and fourth largest Mo (~ 0.62 Mt) skarn …

Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits

JW Park, IH Campbell, M Chiaradia, H Hao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Porphyry deposits are large, low-grade metal ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal
fluids derived from an underlying magma reservoir. They are important as major sources of …

Tibetan ore deposits: A conjunction of accretionary orogeny and continental collision

J Deng, Q Wang, X Sun, L Yang, DI Groves, Q Shu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the spatial-temporal distribution, geological and geochemical features,
and geophysical context of diverse types of Cenozoic ore deposits formed during India …

Cenozoic tectono-magmatic and metallogenic processes in the Sanjiang region, southwestern China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The Sanjiang region in SE Tibet Plateau, and the western Yunnan region in southwestern
China constitute a collage of Gondwana-derived micro-continental blocks and arc terranes …

A genetic linkage between subduction-and collision-related porphyry Cu deposits in continental collision zones

Z Hou, Z Yang, Y Lu, A Kemp, Y Zheng, Q Li… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The genesis of continental collision-related porphyry Cu deposits (PCDs) remains
controversial. The most common hypothesis links their genesis with magmas derived from …

Porphyry copper systems

RH Sillitoe - Economic geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Porphyry Cu systems host some of the most widely distributed mineralization types at
convergent plate boundaries, including porphyry deposits centered on intrusions; skarn …