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Orogenic, Amagmatic and Hydrothermal Mineral Systems of Uncertain Origin

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Hydrothermal Processes and Mineral Systems

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In the preceding chapters I have discussed, what I would consider main-stream hydrothermal systems responsible for a wide range of ore deposits. In this section, I discuss a range of hydrothermal mineral systems, for which a link with magmas or magmatic activity is either missing or uncertain, hence the title of this chapter. In this category fall the economically very important orogenic Au lodes, ranging in age from Neogene to Palaeoarchaean and providing large gold outputs, not only in countries normally well-endowed with mineral resources, such as Canada, South Africa, Australia, Russia, but also to countries less fortunate in this respect, as for example New Zealand and Uzbekistan.

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Pirajno, F. (2009). Orogenic, Amagmatic and Hydrothermal Mineral Systems of Uncertain Origin. In: Hydrothermal Processes and Mineral Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8613-7_9

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