Post-collisional porphyry copper deposits in Tibet: An overview

Z Yang, K Cao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the geology and geochemistry of post-collisional PCDs in
Tibet, including their spatial–temporal distribution, features of the ore-forming porphyries …

Dating the giant Zhuxi W–Cu deposit (Taqian–Fuchun Ore Belt) in South China using molybdenite Re–Os and muscovite Ar–Ar system

X Pan, Z Hou, Y Li, G Chen, M Zhao, T Zhang… - Ore Geology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The recently discovered Zhuxi W–Cu ore deposit is located within the Taqian–Fuchun Ore
Belt in the southeastern edge of the Yangtze Block, South China. Its inferred tungsten …

The economic potential of metalliferous sub-volcanic brines

J Blundy, A Afanasyev, B Tattitch… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The transition to a low-carbon economy will increase demand for a wide range of metals,
notably copper, which is used extensively in power generation and in electric vehicles …

Magmatic evolution of granodiorite intrusions at the El Salvador porphyry copper deposit, Chile, based on trace element composition and U/Pb age of zircons

RG Lee, JH Dilles, RM Tosdal… - Economic …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Uranium-lead ages and trace element compositions of zircon from a series of shallow
porphyry intrusions document the temporal, chemical, and thermal magmatic evolution of …

Multi-million-year magmatic and hydrothermal activity is key to the formation of supergiant to behemothian porphyry copper deposits

AL Virmond, JF Wotzlaw, R Rojas-Arancibia… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the primary controls on mineral deposit formation and size is essential for
sourcing the metals required by our ever-growing economy. The tonnage of porphyry copper …

SIMS zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os geochronology, Hf isotope, and whole-rock geochemistry of the Wunugetushan porphyry Cu–Mo deposit and granitoids in …

Y Wang, C Zhao, F Zhang, J Liu, J Wang, R Peng… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The geodynamic setting of magmatic rocks and geodynamic mechanism of Cu–Mo–Fe–Sn–
Pb–Zn–Ag polymetallic mineralization in northeastern (NE) China are attracting increasing …

Radiometric dating applied to ore deposits: theory and methods

M Chiaradia - Isotopes in Economic Geology, Metallogenesis and …, 2023 - Springer
Metallic ore deposits have contributed to the development of the human society since pre-
historic times and nowadays are one of the pillars of unprecedented technological …

Porphyry indicator zircons (PIZs): Application to exploration of porphyry copper deposits

H Pizarro, E Campos, F Bouzari, S Rousse, T Bissig… - Ore Geology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Magmas with a high oxidation state (FMQ+ 1 to+ 2), a high-water content (≥ 4 wt% H 2 O)
and a high degree of fractionation are necessary to form porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) …

The genesis of the ores and intrusions at the Yuhai Cu–Mo deposit in eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints from geology, geochronology, geochemistry, and Hf …

YH Wang, FF Zhang, JJ Liu - Ore Geology Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yuhai porphyry Cu–Mo deposit is located in the eastern Tianshan orogenic belt
of the southern Central Asian Orogen Belt, being an economically important porphyry Cu …

Supergiant porphyry copper deposits are failed large eruptions

M Chiaradia, L Caricchi - Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Porphyry copper deposits, the principal source of copper and molybdenum, form at
convergent margins. Copper is precipitated from fluids associated with cooling magmas that …