Ore Deposits – Origin, Exploration, and Exploitation

Sophie Decree, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Geological Survey of Belgium Laurence Robb, University of Oxford, UK and Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA), South Africa

Table of content:


I. General studies of ore deposits

1. Metallogeny of the Aegean region: the porphyry-epithermal perspective Naden and Kilias
2. Kola PGE-bearing province: main types of deposits, their geological settings and resources Mitrofanov et al.

3. Geological and Geochemical Criteria for the Estimation of the Area of The Lesser Hinggan for the Endogenous Gold Mineralization (The Far East, Russia) - Yurchenko

4. Trace and rare earth elements fractionation in volcanic- and sediment-hosted Mn ores: a study case of Sardinia (western Italy) - Sinisi

5. Geochemical, petrological and microtextural studies of the Samba prospect in the Zambian Copperbelt basement: a metamorphosed Palaeoproterozoic porphyry Cu deposit Master and Ndhlovu


6. Geochemical characterization and prediction of AMD generating potential of Kure Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits, Kastamonu, NW, Turkey Demirel and Celik-Balci


II. New methods applied to mineralization studies

7. 187Re - 187Os Nuclear Geochronometry: A New Dating Method Applied to Old Ores Roller
8. Ore genesis dating: implication of Sm-Nd method using sulphide minerals for mafic-ultramafic layered intrusions Serov et al.

9. Application of the cathodoluminescence to the study of ore deposits Baele et al.


III. New development in ore deposits exploration


10. Hyperspectral remote sensing exploration of carbonatite - an example from Epembe, Kunene region, Namibia - Zimmermann et al.


11. Identification of Iron Ore Mines of Qilian mountain Gansu by Using the airborne hyperspectral data Kai et al.


12. Remote mapping of palaeochannels and calcrete in arid environments: implications for superficial uranium mineralization and exploration Porwal et al.


13. Magnetic Susceptibility as a Vector toward Ore in the Orogenic Vein Gold System Raub et al.

14. Nanoscale Pyrrhotite in the Irish Midlands Pb-Zn District: Magnetic Susceptibility as an Exploration Vector and Implications for Paragenesis Johnson et al.