Ore Geology Reviews: Special Issue on Mineral Deposits of South China

This special issue focuses on the variety of mineral resources in the South China region located north of Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, and includes Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Tibet, part of Shandong Province, and the Guangxi District.

China is the driving force and powerhouse of a currently booming global metals industry and now attracts more foreign direct investment than any other country. The Special Issue includes papers on a diverse range of Chinese ore deposits and districts, including Palaeozoic VHMS deposits, skarn gold deposits, sediment-hosted gold deposits, porphyry Cu-Au, polymetallic Fe-Cu-Au deposits and sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposits.

This timely publication is recommended to geo-scientists with an interest in the future of ore genesis and exploration in South China.

• 383 pages, including 29 in colour.

Edited by: Khin Zaw, Stephen Peters, Nigel Cook and Zengqian Hou

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The Geology of the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, NSW, Australia

The first of a new series on world-class ore deposits, published by CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits.

• 290 pages
• 79 colour figures featured in the book and in PDF format on the accompanying CD

Author: A. (Tony) E. Webster

$AUD120.00 each (see order form for specials)
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Altered Volcanic Rocks--
a guide to description and interpretation

A follow-up to the highly successful "Volcanic Textures"

Altered volcanic rocks is designed to be a practical guide for systematically describing and interpreting altered volcanic rocks, and determining their significance in terms of mineral deposit prospectivity. It discusses the processes and products of the common alteration styles in submarine volcanic settings, including diagenetic alteration, burial metamorphism, hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation, and intrusion-related. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach combining alteration mineralogy, textures and intensity with lithogeochemistry to constrain the characteristics of different alteration styles. To emphasize the ore deposit context, the book includes a major chapter that uses innovative illustrated data sheets to describe the main alteration facies or zones associated with a variety of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits. The final chapter describes and presents examples of how altered rocks and their characteristics may be applied to exploration for volcanic-hosted deposits.

The book contains 127 figures and 66 full-page alteration data sheets, which include 274 colour photographs that illustrate the textural and mineralogical characteristics of different alteration intensities, facies and styles.

Authors: Cathryn Gifkins, Walter Herrmann and Ross Large

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24ct Au Workshop --
CODES Special Publication 5

This volume contains proceedings of the 24 Carat Gold Workshop, which was held in Hobart, Tasmania, on 14–16 June 2004. The workshop consisted of 13 one-hour keynote presentations from selected industry and academic specialists who, where possible, have addressed the following issues:

• Characteristics of a hydrothermal gold deposit type

• Anatomy of a giant gold deposit discovery

Seven of the papers contained within this volume summarise the characteristics and origins of gold deposits: lode gold (Robert), porphyry copper-gold (Cooke), low and intermediate sulfidation epithermal gold (Gemmell), volcanic-hosted massive sulfide gold (Hannington), high sulfidation epithermal gold (Hedenquist), gold skarns (Meinert) and Carlin-type gold (Cline). There is also one overview paper on the structural architecture of porphyry and epithermal deposits (Tosdal). Five papers deal with the anatomy of giant ore deposit discoveries, and characteristics of those deposits (Tarkwa/Damang – Tunks; Oyu Tolgoi – Ivanhoe Mines; Kelian – Davies; La Ronde – Gosselin; Pueblo Viejo – Kesler). This volume also contains papers summarizing the characteristics of four deposits discussed in the exploration forums: Cadia Quarry (Wilson), Teresa and Victoria (Garcia), Golden Grove (Pring) and Martabe (Levet).

Edited by David R. Cooke, Cari Deyell and June Pongratz

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CODES Special Publication 4

This volume is the product of a 3-day giant ore deposit workshop held in Hobart, Tasmania, on 17–19 June 2002. Eight of the papers contained within this volume summarise the characteristics of selected types of giant ore deposits: porphyry copper (Camus), iron-oxide copper-gold (Haynes, Davidson), sediment-hosted zinc-lead (Large et al.), Carlin-type gold (Thompson), magmatic nickel-copper (Naldrett), lateritic nickel (Elias) and Witwatersrand gold (Frimmel and Minter). Four papers deal with the anatomy of giant ore deposit discoveries: Collahuasi (Moore and Masterman); Red Dog (Jennings and King); Goldstrike (Bettles); Witwatersrand - Fox). Brief exploration proforma (summaries of the characteristics of specific deposit types) are also provided for porphyry Cu-Au, Fe-oxide Cu-Au, Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn and Carlin-type Au deposits. The new scientific contributions and exploration case histories contained within this volume will help geologists in their quests for new giant ore deposits, and in understanding the origins of the deposits that have already been discovered. 269 pages.

David Cooke and June Pongratz, Editors

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M. Solmon and D. I. Groves

This 2000 edition is a reprint of the 1994 edition, together with a supplementary chapter outlining recent progress in understanding the processes involved in the genesis of Australia's major mineral deposits. Particular attention has been paid to the sediment-hosted, stratiform lead-zinc and volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits, but the review also includes discussions of Archaean ocean composition, orogenic lode gold deposits, Proterozoic Broken Hill-type and Cu and Au ores, and banded iron formations and their related iron ores. 1002 pages, hardbound.

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International conference and field meeting
November 2000, Tasmania, Australia
CODES Special Publication 3

This conference, attended by over 130 international participants, focused on current issues into volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits and the physical volcanology of their host successions. Particular emphasis was placed on parallels between modern, active seafloor hydrothermal systems and their ancient analogs. This volume contains the extended abstracts, which are innovative and report new and significant data and results, of all oral and posters presented at the conference. Anyone interested in the tectonic setting, geology and genesis of VHMS deposits should purchase a copy.

View list of abstracts

Edited by J. Bruce Gemmell and June Pongratz

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J.McPhie, M. Doyle and R. Allen

Volcanic Textures provides a practical guide to the description and interpretation of important textures in lavas, syn-volcanic intrusions and a wide variety of volcaniclastic deposits. Many examples come from the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics, the submarine volcanic host sequence to several world-class polymetallic massive sulfide ore deposits in western Tasmania. These are compared with younger analogues and contrasting subaerial sequences in the USA, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Central America and South America.

The book contains 46 thematic plates comprising 330 colour photographs, each accompanied by a description and, where appropriate, an interpretation. The plates are complemented by text that reviews relevant genetic processes and facies relationships. Part 1 gives an introduction to terminology, field identification techniques and classification. Part 2 describes selected textures, components and structures in volcanic deposits. Part 3 focuses on lavas, shallow intrusions and related autoclastic deposits. Part 4 covers pyroclastic and other volcaniclastic deposits with emphasis on transport and depositional processes. Part 5 outlines the textual effects of hydrothermal alteration, especially in the vicinity of massive sulfide ore deposits, using examples from the Mount Read Volcanics.

Volcanic Textures is designed for use by exploration geologists, graduate students and other earth scientists with an interest in physical volcanology, especially those engaged in mapping and interpreting volcanic sequences.

About the Authors
Jocelyn McPhie, Rodney Allen and Mark Doyle are researchers at the Centre for Ore Deposit Research (CODES SRC) at the University of Tasmania. Their research expertise spans ancient and modern, subaerial and subaqueous volcanic sequences, with major strengths in volcanic facies analysis and textual interpretation.

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CODES Special Publication 1
Edited by J. Pongratz and G.J. Davidson

Contributing authors
S.G. Walters: An overview of Broken Hill type deposits.
B.H.J. Stevens: Regional geology of the Broken Hill and Euriowie Blocks.
R.H. Vernon: Structural evidence of parent rocks in high-grade metamorphic areas - especially Broken Hill.
W.P. Laing: Nappe interpretation, palaeo-geography and metallogenic synthesis of the Broken Hill-Olary Block.
W.P. Laing: Volcanic related origin of the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Australia.
W.P. Laing: The Diamantina orogen linking the Willyama and Cloncurry terranes, eastern Australia.
K. Ehlers et al: New constraints on Broken Hill geology and mineralisation.
G. R. Carr and S.-S. Sun: Lead isotope models applied to Broken Hill style terrains - Syngenetic vs epigenetic metallogenesis.
I.R. Plimer: The Olary Block, South Australia - an insight into mineralisation in the adjacent Broken Hill Block.
A.E. Webster: A detailed description of the Broken Hill deposit - lessons from the ore fabrics.
R. Large et al.: The chemistry of BHT ore formation - one of the keys to understanding the differences between SEDEX and BHT deposits.
R.L. Allen: Identification of volcanic textures, felsic caldera volcanoes and synvolcanic ore genesis in Bergslagen, "Broken Hill-like", mining district, Sweden.
P.J. Williams et al.: Significance of late orogenic metasomatism in the Broken Hill-type deposits of the Cloncurry district, NW Queensland.
S.B. Bodon: Genetic implications of the paragenesis and rare-earth element geochemistry at the Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn deposit, Mt Isa Inlier, northwest Queensland.
I.L. Willis: Exploration for Broken Hill-type Pb-Zn-Ag deposits.
R.J.W. Turner et al.: Sullivan stratiform lead-zinc deposit, British Columbia, Canada: rift setting, associated district-scale hydro-thermal field, and comparison to BHT deposits.

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S. Warren Carey

Earth, Universe, Cosmos is a major new work by one of the world's great tectonicians.

Each chapter makes departures from conventional theory. The origin of Banded Iron Formations is explained for the first time. A major revision of tectonics is necessary following Carey's explanation of orogenesis as non-compressed and vertical, driven by gravity.

Currently, American geologists attribute some meteorites to Mars, whereas their real source was the Mesozoic disruption of the asteroidal planet. Of course lead isotope ages of meteorites and of Moon rocks gives ages of four billion years, which is the age of formation of the asteroidal planet, not its disruption.

Carey explains how the major features of the earth can be explained by a high rate of earth expansion. He concludes with a tour de force discussion of cosmology. This book is a "must read" for all cosmologists and earth and planetary scientists.

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CODES Special Publication 2
Edited by Oliver Holm, June Pongratz, Peter McGoldrick

Proceedings of an international conference held at CODE, University of Tasmania July 1998.

Featuring:

• new research developments on Northern Australian and Canadian SEDEX deposits
• the latest o Irish-style deposits
• basin fluid chemistry and hydrological modelling
• papers by Hanor, Garven, Hitzman, Goodfellow, McGoldrick, Large, Wallace, Rawlings, Cooke 'n' Bull

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• Professor T.W. Healy, Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne.
• Professor A.E. Alexander, Department of Physical Chemistry, The University of Sydney.
• Professor S.W. Carey, Department of Geology, The University of Tasmania.
• Professor T.F.W. Barth, The University of Oslo, President, 23rd International Geological Congress.
• Dr. Ralph K. Iler, Cornell University and E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co, Wilmington, Delaware.
• Professor R.L. Stanton, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW. (Independent complimentary research that established the precursor principle by direct measurement with a microprobe analyzer.)
• Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne. (Independent research that confirmed DLVO theory by measurement of interparticle forces with an atomic force microscope.)

• John Elliston, First honours graduate, Geology Department, University of Tasmania (before establishment of CODES).