Age, Conditions of Formation, and Fluid Composition of the Pervomaiskoe Molybdenum Deposit (Dzhidinskoe Ore Field, South-Western Transbaikalia, Russia)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear autohrs,
I would advise to rewrite the article with the helping of an English mother tongue.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer! We corrected the paper according to you recommendations.
Reviewer 2 Report
I enjoyed reading the manuscript; however, there are many things that can be improved:
There are parts that are still in Russian All the average values need to have a standard deviation Concordia diagram needs to be fixed There are numerous places missing referencing. This can be a major issue as this might be considered as plagiarism by the journal The overall writing style of the paper needs improvement. The methodology is lacking a lot of necessary information including the accuracy calculation. Values are not cited anywhere in the text Figures are missing the scale bar in most cases The result is not detailed at all. You need to add as much as information as you could to the result, and then explain them in the discussion, but that is not the case the discussion is not detailed enough and there are parts that need to be moved to the methodology. Technical terms like common lead and major elements can not be changed.Please see the attached document for your reference
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer! We corrected the paper according to your recommendation.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I added few more comments (in Yellow).
I would like to see the paper once more, when cleaned from corrections.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Page 1: The title of article is corrected
page 1 (abstract): "P-T-X conditions..." - in our opinion, there is no need to change
page 1 (introduction): "the three..." - is corrected
page 2 (introduction): "Further research..." - is corrected. We suggest that this paragraph should be left in the introduction
page 9, table 3: "Al2Si2O8" - is corrected
page 10, fig.7 - signature is added
page 15 (Discussion): "high alkalinity..." - is corrected
page 16 (Discussion): "deep juvenile substance..." - is corrected to "...mantle fluid influence..."
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
in general, I am impressed by the amount of work you have done. However, there is still room for improvement. My biggest issue is that there is no actual place in the paper that you present the data (cite the values) and discuss them. There is a table, but it is would be much easier to read the paper if the facts are lined up.
Figure 3: needs some work, the concordia plots need to show just the points you used to calculate the age, not all the points. Please delete the ones to the right of the concordia line and re-plot the figures.
Figure 6: Scale bars are extremely hard to read, please enlarge the font
Please see my notes on the manuscripts for your information.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Author's Notes
page 1 (abstract): added SD; last sentence corrected
page 2 (introduction): Links in the first sentence [1] and in the second paragraph [3, 4] are added earlier
page 2 (Introduction): second, third and fourth paragraphs are corrected
page 2, section 2. Methods - text is corrected
page 2,3, section 2.1. U-Pb Dating - Text is corrected
page 3, section 2.2 Ar / Ar Dating - text is corrected
page 4, table 1 - definitions added
page 5, section 3 Brief geological ... – is corrected
page 6, section 4. Isotopic age ... – is corrected
page 6, fig. 3 - all points (24) were used
page 7, last paragraph – is corrected
8, fig. 6 – scale bars is corrected 10, fig. 7 - title is corrected 10, last paragraph (section 6. Liquid ...) - the text is corrected 11 - signature to fig. 9 is corrected p. 12, fig. 10 - signature addedpage 15, section 8. Discussion - the text of the second and third paragraphs is corrected