Footprints of Mineral Systems with IOCG, IOA and Affiliated Critical Metal Deposits: From Metasomatism to Metamorphism
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Deposits".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1598
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting you to contribute manuscripts to “Footprints of Mineral Systems with IOCG, IOA and Affiliated Critical Metal Deposits: From Metasomatism to Metamorphism”, a special issue of Minerals. This Issue aims to further the ideas presented by the Critical Mineral Geoscience provided in the Special Paper 52 of the Geological Association of Canada (Corriveau et al., in press) and accelerate critical mineral discoveries, including in high-grade metamorphic terranes.
Metasomatic iron (oxide) and alkali calcic systems can lead to iron oxide–apatite (IOA), iron oxide copper–gold (IOCG) and their affiliated critical metal deposits. Metasomatism is regionally extensive and intense, and the diagnostic metasomatic mineral assemblages are defined as series of alterating facies, each with distinct metal associations and deposit types. New alteration mapping protocols, mineralogical, geochemical, geophysical framework tools, ore genesis and rock physical property models can help solve the exploration and geosciences challenges posed by IOCG, IOA and affiliated critical metal deposits. Known and commonly undeveloped deposits are likely the tip of the iceberg in terms of mineral system prospectivity and call for broadening system-scale geoscience knowledge.
A new wave of discovery of metamorphosed ore deposits at upper amphibolite to granulite facies calls for the re-assessment of historically underexplored mineral occurrences in high-grade metamorphic terranes (Corriveau and Spry, 2014; Vearncombe and Phillips, 2020). In known deposits, the meta-alteration zones have preserved the footprint of the pre-metamorphic metasomatic chemical changes undergone by the protoliths.
This Special Issue will focus on new protocols and/or framework tools to explore IOCG, IOA and related critical metal deposits using:
- Field and drill core observation;
- Alteration facies approach;
- Mineralogy;
- Geochemistry;
- Geophysics;
- Rock physical properties;
- Metamorphic phase modeling;
- Case studies at system to deposit scales.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Olivier Blein
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- IOCG
- mineralogy
- geochemistry
- geophysics
- metamorphism
