- Mineral Resources
- Online Spatial Data
- Basement domains of the conterminous US and Alaska
Geological environments and metal endowments found in Oceanic arc basement domains
- Geological environment: Magmatic arc
- Primary metal endowments: Porphyry Cu-Au
References
Berger, B.R., Ayuso, R.A., Wynn, J.C., and Seal, R.R., 2008, Preliminary model of porphyry copper deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1321, 55 p.
John, D.A., Ayuso, R.A., Barton, M.D., Blakely, R.J., Bodnar, R.J., Dilles, J.H., Gray, Floyd, Graybeal, F.T., Mars, J.C., McPhee, D.K., Seal, R.R., Taylor, R.D., and Vikre, P.G., 2010, Porphyry copper deposit model, chap. B of Mineral deposit models for resource assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5070–B, 169 p; http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5070/b/.
- Geological environment: Magmatic arc
- Primary metal endowments: Au-Cu epithermal
References
Groves, D.I., Goldfarb, R.J., Gebre-Mariam, M., Hagemann, S.G., and Robert, F., 1998, Orogenic gold deposits—A proposed classification in the context of their crustal distribution and relationship to other gold deposit types: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 13, p. 7–27.
- Geological environment: Magmatic arc
- Primary metal endowments: Cu-Zn-Pb ± Au-Ag VMS
References
Hannington, M.D., de Ronde, C.E.J., and Petersen, S., 2005, Sea-floor tectonics and submarine hydrothermal systems, in Hedenquist, J.W., Thompson, J.F.H., Goldfarb, R.J., and Richards, J.P., eds., Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 111–141.