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New evidence of magmatic-fluid-related phyllic alteration: Implications for the genesis of porphyry Cu deposits
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Abstract
The phyllic alteration in a number of circum-Pacific porphyry Cu-Au deposits is related to high-temperature saline magmatic fluids. This contradicts the widely used genetic models wherein phyllic alteration formed as the result of mixing between magmatic and meteoric fluids. At the Endeavour 26 North porphyry deposit in eastern Australia, the transition from early potassic to the main-stage phyllic alteration is associated with fluids that with time decline in total salinity, NaCl/KCl, and temperature from ~600 to ~550 degrees C. Calculated and measured delta^18 O and delta D compositions of fluids (5.1-8.5 parts per thousand, -57 to -73 parts per thousand delta D) confirm a primary magmatic origin for both the early potassic and main- stage phyllic alteration. These results are consistent with other recent studies (e.g., El Salvador, Chile, Far Southeast, Philippines, and Panguna and Porgera, Papua New Guinea) and suggest that, rather than these results being unusual, a major revision of porphyry Cu genetic models is required.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Harris, AC and Golding, SD |
Keywords: | copper, gold, magmatic, ore-forming fluids, porphyry |
Journal or Publication Title: | Geology |
ISSN: | 0091-7613 |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0335:NEOMFR>2.0.CO;2 |
Additional Information: | The definitive version is available at http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=0091-7613&volume=30&page=335 This article was included as Science Magazine's Editors Choice (Science 26 April 2002: Vol. 296. no. 5568, p. 621) Editors' Choice: Highlights of the recent literature |
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