Application of U-Th-Pb Phosphate Geochronology to Young Orogenic Gold Deposits: New Age Constraints on the Formation of the Grass Valley Gold District, Sierra Nevada Foothills Province, California

2015 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 1313-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Taylor ◽  
R. J. Goldfarb ◽  
T. Monecke ◽  
I. R. Fletcher ◽  
M. A. Cosca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
New Age ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits ◽  
Sierra Nevada Foothills ◽  
Age Constraints

A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain K. Pitcairn ◽  
Nikolaos Leventis ◽  
Georges Beaudoin ◽  
Stephane Faure ◽  
Carl Guilmette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Metal Source ◽  
Main Metal ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits ◽  
Archean Orogenic Gold Deposits

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 Phanerozoic deposits, are less abundant in Archean greenstone belts and commonly discounted as a viable metal source for Archean deposits. We report ultralow-detection-limit gold and trace-element concentrations from a suite of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks from the Abitibi belt and Pontiac subprovince, Superior Province, Canada. Systematic decreases in the Au content with increasing metamorphic grade indicate that Au was mobilized during prograde metamorphism. Mass balance calculations show that over 10 t of Au, 30,000 t of As, and 600 t of Sb were mobilized from 1 km3 of Pontiac subprovince sedimentary rock metamorphosed to the sillimanite metamorphic zone. The total gold resource in orogenic gold deposits in the southern Abitibi belt (7500 t Au) is only 3% of the Au mobilized from the estimated total volume of high-metamorphic-grade Pontiac sedimentary rock in the region (25,000 km3), indicating that sedimentary rocks are a major contributor of metals to the orogenic gold deposits in the southern Abitibi belt.

Lithospheric controls on the formation of provinces hosting giant orogenic gold deposits

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 874-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank P. Bierlein ◽  
David I. Groves ◽  
Richard J. Goldfarb ◽  
Benoit Dubé
Keyword(s):  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits

A Tentative Study of Relationship between Mantle Plumes, Supercontinents and Orogenic Gold Deposits

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 265-268
Author(s):  
Jun Hao Cui ◽  
Tao Ren
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Plume ◽  
Gold Mineralization ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Upper Crust ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposit ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Tectonic Environment ◽  
The Relationship

On the basis of predecessors study, this paper found that outbreak frequency of mantle plume is increase, while scale is reduce. The mantle plume provides ore-forming minerals to orogenic gold deposits, as well as affords force to supercontinent formation and decomposition, for the more controls the global tectonic. Supercontinent is the movement of upper crust that could be cause by combine factors of cold and heat mantle plume. Supercontinent supply suitable tectonic environment for orogenic gold deposits. Further, we discuss the relationship between mantle plume, supercontinent and orogenic gold deposit on space and time. With the evolution of the earth, especially the energy loss, the frequency of orogenic gold mineralization is increasing, while the scale is reducing.

Atmospheric sulfur in the orogenic gold deposits of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Australia

Geology ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. G39018.1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikraman Selvaraja ◽  
Stefano Caruso ◽  
Marco L. Fiorentini ◽  
Crystal K. LaFlamme ◽  
Thi-Hao Bui
Keyword(s):  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Yilgarn Craton ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits ◽  
Atmospheric Sulfur
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