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Porphyry Deposits

The Importance of Porphyry Deposits as a Copper and Gold Resource Gold Resources Copper Resources

A Geological Cross Section through the Batu Hijau Porphyry Deposit, Indonesia (920 million tons of ore grading 0.55 wt.% Cu, 0.42 g/t Au)

Batu Hijau Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Indonesia

Batu Hijau Porphyry Cu-Au Ores Hypogene Supergene Malachite Bornite Chalcopyrite

Spatial Distribution of Porphyry Deposits

The Origin of Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Magmas Hydration Melting

Porphyry-epithermal-skarn system - overview

Idealized Porphyry Alteration/Mineralization (Lowell and Gilbert, 1970)

Schematic Porphyry-Epithermal Alteration Sillitoe (2010)

Porphyry Ore and Alteration Textures Potassic Alteration Porphyry Ore and Alteration Textures High Grade Ore Bornite Chalcopyrite Phyllic Alteration

Potassic Alteration Revealed by Staining

Hydrothermal Alteration – Chemical Controls 3KAlSi3O8 + 2H+ = KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 + 6SiO2 + 2K+ K-feldspar Muscovite Quartz 2KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 + 2H+ + 3H2O = 3Al2Si2O5(OH)4 + 2K+ Muscovite Kaolinite

Metal Zonation in Porphyry Systems Bingham Mineral Park

Tectonic Setting of Porphyry Deposits

Porphyry metal associations as a function of intrusive composition

Fluid Overpressure and Porphyry Ore Formation

Porphyry-Epithermal System Evolution

Fluid Inclusions in Porphyry Ore Depositing Systems LV inclusions VL inclusions LVHS inclusions Aqueous-carbonic Fluid inclusion

Primary, Pseudosecondary and Secondary Fluid Inclusions 100 mm Primary and pseudosecondary fluid inclusions in dolomite

Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry

Salinity Determination from Ice Melting

Microthermometry of Aqueous Fluid Inclusions

Salinity Determination from Halite Dissolution

Isochores for Fluid Inclusions in the System H2O

Isochores for Halite-bearing inclusions

Isochores for the System NaCl-H2O

P-T-X Relationships in the System NaCl-H2O

Salinity-Temperature Relationships in Porphyry Systems Note existence of high temperature VL and LVS inclusions. Evidence of boiling or condensation? Data from the Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry, Iran (Hezarkhani and Williams-Jones, 1997)

Laser Ablation ICP-MS and Fluid inclusions

Stable Isotope Data for Porphyry Deposits

Chemical Controls on Ore Formation Deposition of Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) CuClo +FeCl2o + 2H2S + 0.5O2= CuFeS2 + 3H+ + 3Cl- + 0.5H2O Deposition favoured by an increase in f O2, an increase in f H2S and an increase in pH What about temperature?

Decreasing Temperature – the Main Control on Porphyry Copper Ore Formation (Hezarkhani and Williams-Jones, 1998)

Cu-Mo Zoning in Porphyry Systems Porphyry Cu-Mo deposits are commonly zoned with a deeper, higher temperature molybdenite-rich zone and a shallower, lower temperature chalcopyrite-rich zone. Cooling of an aqueous fluid initially containing 2 m NaCl, 0.5 m KCl, 4000 ppm Cu and 1000 ppm Mo in equilibrium with K-feldspar, muscovite and quartz.

Magma Emplacement, and the Nature of the Exsolved Fluid

A Model for the Formation of Porphyry Deposits

Transport of Metals by Vapour? Summit of Merapi volcano, Indonesia Transport of Metals by Vapour? Fumarole emitting magmatic gases at 600 oC Extinct fumarole Ilsemanite Mo3O8.nH2O

The Bingham Porphyry Deposit - A Case for the Vapour Transport of Copper (Williams-Jones and Heinrich, 2005)

The Solubility of Chalcopyrite in Water Vapour Increasing PH2O promotes hydration (and solubility) and increasing temperature inhibits hydration. Migdisov et al. (2014)

From Hypogene to Supergene Malachite Bornite Chalcopyrite

Supergene enrichment Leached zone – acidity creation Oxidised zone Primary zone Enriched zone Leached zone Mineralized gravel Mineralized bedrock Barren gravel Leached zone – acidity creation FeS2 + H2O + 7/2O2= Fe2+ + 2SO42- + 2H+ CuFeS2 + 4O2= Fe2+ + Cu2+ + 2SO42- Oxidised zone – Fe and Cu oxides, acidity creation 2Fe2+ + 2H2O + 1/2O2 = Fe2O3 + 4H+; 2Cu+ + H2O = Cu2O + 2H+ Enriched zone – reduction and sulphide deposition 2Cu+ + SO42- = Cu2S + 4O2

Supergene enrichment Eh pH O2 Cu2+ Malachite Cu2(OH)2CO3 Covellite Cuprite Cu2O Native Cu Covellite Chalcocite H2O H2 O2 Eh pH

References Evans, A.M., 1993, Ore geology and industrial minerals, an introduction: Blackwell Science, Chapter 14. Pirajno, F. 2009, Hydrothermal processes and mineral systems, Springer, Chapter 5. Seedorff, E., Dilles, J.H., Proffett Jr, J.M., Einaudi, M.T., Zurcher, L., Stavast, W.J.A, 2006, Porphyry Deposits: Characteristics and origin of hypogene features in Hedenquist et Al. (eds) Economic Geology One Hundreth Anniversary Volume, p.251-298. Sillitoe, R.H., 2010, Porphyry copper systems: Econ. Geol., 195, 3-41. Williams-Jones, A.E. and Heinrich, C.H., 2005, Vapor transport of metals and the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits: Econ. Geol., 100, p.1287-1312.