Genesis and Exploration of Skarn Deposits
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Deposits".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 September 2022) | Viewed by 952
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Dear Colleagues,
As one important mineralization type, skarn deposits host economically valuable base and precious metals such as Fe, Au, Cu, Zn, W, Mo and Sn and form in rocks of all ages. Most economic skarn deposits are related to magmatism at active plate margins and are zoned in both space and time relative to the associated magmatism, with the zonation reflecting infiltrative fluid flow, wallrock reaction, temperature variations, and fluid mixing. Details of igneous petrogenesis and tectonic settings form a frameword for exploration and classification of skarn deposits. Correlations exist among the major and trace element geochemical compositions of the associated intrusions and skarn types (e.g. Fe, Cu). Due to the recent development of high-spatial and mass-resolution microprobes, many minerals have been used to shed light on the genesis and exploration of skarn deposit. For example, the temporal relationships between skarns and their assumed causative plutons are confirmed by U-Pb laser ablation dating of garnet. Moreover, δ18O values from skarn garnets have been used to track the hydrothermal evolution of an individual skarn body through time. Fluid inclusion compositions obtained from laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry provide constraints on fluid origin, evolution, and metal deposition mechanisms. Compositional variations of chlorite to trace the magmatic-hydrothermal fluid evolution, as well as providing exploration vectors toward concealed orebodies, which are widely applied to porphyry copper systems, have been used in skarn systems.
Dr. Jinsheng Han
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- petrogenesis of the causative magmatism
- ore-forming fluid evolution
- geochronology of skarn deposits
- genesis of skarn deposits
- exploration tools of skarn deposits
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