Metamorphic Rocks Have Gold
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Metamorphic Rocks. Metamorphic rocks are created when heat and pressure change the structure of pre-existing rocks. These rocks can be a good source of gold, as, on average, they contain gold from a minimum of 0.86 to as high as 22.4 ppb. ... But how do you know that the rocks you find have gold? While there is no guarantee …
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However, were recently numerous gold prospects discovered in association with metamorphic rocks. This paper is intended to describe an alteration and ore mineralogy hosted by metamorphic rocks at Rumbia mountains, Bombana regency, Southeast Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The study area is found the placer and primary gold …
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If metamorphic rocks have sufficient porosity, or include porous lithologies, they might be able to accumulate the fluid generated over millions of years and release it over a much shorter time span. ... An evolution from magmatic to metamorphic gold systems has been proposed for the nearby Carosue Basin, where Witt & Hammond (2008) suggest ...
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The photo in Figure 9.3 is an example of a low-grade mafic metamorphic rock, a gold-bearing greenschist from the Homestake Mine in South Dakota. The rock contains mostly chlorite but, if you enlarge the photo, two small flecks of native gold (Au) are visible near the center of the bottom edge. ... Many metamorphic rocks have been shown to ...
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Even with their new mineral assemblages, metamorphic rocks may have the same overall chemistry as before metamorphism. Fluids are an important agent of metamorphism. Most rocks contain some water, but sedimentary rocks hold the most. First, there is the water that was trapped in the sediment as it became rock. Second, …
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Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock in which the coarse mineral grains have been arranged into bands or layers of varying mineral composition. ... maps, books, hardness picks, gold pans. Earth Science Records: Highest mountain, deepest lake, biggest tsunami and more. Diamonds: Learn about the properties of diamond, its many uses, and …
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What is Schist? Schist is a foliated metamorphic rock made up of plate-shaped mineral grains that are large enough to see with an unaided eye. It usually forms on a continental side of a convergent plate boundary where sedimentary rocks, such as shales and mudstones, have been subjected to compressive forces, heat, and chemical activity. …
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The dominant characteristics of gold deposits in metamorphic rocks, or the so-called orogenic gold deposits, have been well described and summarized for more than 30 years (e.g., Robert et al. 1991; Groves et al.1998; Goldfarb et al. 2005). However, the source of uids and metals (Fig. 1), and thus the genetic model(s), have been long ...
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What is Marble? Marble is a metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to the heat and pressure of metamorphism. It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite (CaCO 3) and usually contains other minerals, such as clay minerals, micas, quartz, pyrite, iron oxides, and graphite.. Under the conditions of metamorphism, the calcite in the …
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6.1: Prelude to Metamorphic Rocks Metamorphic rocks is one of the three rock categories in the rock cycle. Metamorphic rock material has been changed by temperature, pressure, and/or fluids. The rock cycle shows that both igneous and sedimentary rocks can become metamorphic rocks. And metamorphic rocks …
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Metamorphic texture is the description of the shape and orientation of mineral grains in a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rock textures are foliated, non-foliated, or lineated are described below.
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Sources of fluids. The origin of the fluids involved in the formation of orogenic gold deposits has been debated for a long time, mostly because deuterium and oxygen isotope data plot in the superposed fields of magmatic and metamorphic fluids (Ridley and Diamond Citation 2000).Recent developments in thermodynamic modelling …
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To the unaided eye, metamorphic changes may not be apparent at all. Contrast the rock known commercially as Black Marinace Gold Granite (Figure 10.23)—but which is in fact a metaconglomerate—with the metaconglomerate in Figure 10.10. The metaconglomerate formed through burial metamorphism doesn't display any of the …
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Metamorphic rocks represent one of the three major classes of rocks, the others being igneous and sedimentary. Each class has its unique formation processes, …
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Deposits are also found in higher-grade metamorphic rocks, known as hypozonal gold deposits. These deposits are mostly hosted in amphibolite-facies rocks in greenstone belts and are characterized by high-temperature alteration assemblages such as garnet, diopside, hornblende, and K-feldspar and ore-forming temperatures as high …
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To name a metamorphic rock, the mineralogy is listed (in decreasing order of abundance) and then the rock is given a suffix relating to its general texture. For example: A rock composed of 60% muscovite and 40% biotite, both occurring as interlocking platy grains - a schistose (schist-like; schists are a group of medium-grade metamorphic rocks ...
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Fluids. A third metamorphic agent is chemically reactive fluids that are expelled by crystallizing magma and created by metamorphic reactions. These reactive fluids are made of mostly water (H 2 O) and carbon dioxide (CO 2), and smaller amounts of potassium (K), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), and aluminum …
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A metamorphic rock used to be some other type of rock, but it was changed inside the Earth to become a new type of rock. The word metamorphism comes from ancient Greek words for "change" (meta) …
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It can refer to green mica minerals, or metamorphic rocks that contain enough green mica to impart a green color. Gold prospectors learned that gold could be found in areas …
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Coal is one example of a metamorphic rock that contains gold. It is a black rock that is very soft and crumbly. Another metamorphic rock that contains gold is schist. This is a type of metamorphic rock that contains micas that sparkle in the sun. Lastly, sulfide-rich metamorphic rocks are another good place to find gold. These rocks are …
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5.3.1 Non-Foliated Metamorphic Rocks. The other class of metamorphic rocks is non-foliated; the lack of foliation may be due to a lack of differential pressure involved in the metamorphic process; however, this is not necessarily the case for all non-foliated metamorphic rocks. If the protolith rock is only composed of one mineral type, …
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The abundance of gold in crustal rocks is an important constraint on the formation of gold deposits. Gold concentrations in unmineralised igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks range from 0·05 to 20 ppb with average concentrations commonly between 0·5 and 5 ppb.
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Ore deposits form by a variety of natural processes that concentrate elements into a volume that can be economically mined. Their type, character and abundance reflect the environment in which they formed and thus they preserve key evidence for the evolution of magmatic and tectonic processes, the state of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and …
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The genesis of orogenic gold deposits (OGDs), accounting for ~40% of global gold reserves, is highly controversial (Goldfarb and Groves, 2015).The traditional model for the genesis of OGDs is metamorphic devolatilization of crustal rocks at the transition between amphibolite and greenschist facies, considering that most …
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Metamorphic rocks started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed from their original igneous, sedimentary, or earlier metamorphic form. Metamorphic rocks form when rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure, hot mineral-rich fluids or, more commonly, some combination of these factors. Conditions …
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Many workers accept a metamorphic model for orogenic gold ore formation, where a gold-bearing aqueous-carbonic fluid is an inherent product of devolatilization across the greenschist-amphibolite boundary with the majority of deposits formed within the seismogenic zone at depths of 6–12 km. Fertile oceanic rocks that source fluid and …
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Deposits in low-grade metamorphic rocks have negative t 1 and t 2 values (Eu*, U, S, Th), whereas deposits hosted in intermediate grade metamorphic rocks with low t 1 values are not classified by t 2, overlapping with deposits hosted in low-grade metamorphic rocks with negative t 2 (Fig. 10e, f).
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Metamorphic Rocks. Metamorphic rocks are any rock type that has been altered by heat, pressure, and/or the chemical action of fluids and gases. Metamorphic rocks are classified by their structure and their dominant minerals. Metamorphic rock structure is either foliated (has a definite planar structure) or nonfoliated (massive, without structure).
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Therefore, the new metamorphic rock will have a different texture than the parent rock. Metamorphic texture is broadly categorized as either foliated or non-foliated. Foliated texture. Foliation is a term that describes how minerals line up along a preferred direction. Some minerals, particularly micas, are usually thin and planar by default.
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8.7.2.2 Facies Series Figure 8.69: Metamorphic facies series. As a model for progressive metamorphism, petrologists consider different metamorphic facies series, the sequences of metamorphic …
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If you are using the printed version of this OER, access the quiz for section 6.3 via this QR Code. 6.4 Metamorphic Environments. As with igneous processes, metamorphic rocks form at different zones of pressure (depth) and temperature as shown on the pressure-temperature (P-T) diagram. The term facies is an objective description of a rock. In …
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Investigation of Hg isotope ratios of gold-related sulfides and penecontemporaneous mafic dikes from four orogenic gold provinces on the margins of the North China Craton and Yangtze Craton identifies three orogenic gold deposit (OGD) groups from different tectonic regimes. Ore-related sulfides of group 1 OGDs and mafic dikes from the craton margin …
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Gold standards and the direct convertibility of currencies to gold have been abandoned by world governments, led in 1971 by the United States' refusal to redeem its dollars in gold. ... metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Mining and extraction: Gold is typically mined from the Earth using various methods, such as placer mining, lode mining ...
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In the Phanerozoic, gold-mineralized belts are dominated by metasedimentary rocks, commonly turbidite sequences, which host the gold deposits. Mafic volcanic rocks are present in some gold provinces but are not ubiquitous. Hence, metamorphism of a sedimentary source rock is most likely to have produced the ore …
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