Carlin on the Shelf? A Review of Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Gold Deposits and Their Settings in the Eastern Great Basin, USA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira T. Smith ◽  
Harry E. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Gold Deposits

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.

Newly discovered sedimentary rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits in the People's Republic of China

1988 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 1462-1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Cunningham ◽  
Roger P. Ashley ◽  
I-Ming Chou ◽  
Huang Zushu ◽  
Wan Chaoyuan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China
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