Fingerprinting favourable volcanic horizons for precious and critical metal deposits in the Golden Triangle, British Columbia

该项目旨在确定不列颠哥伦比亚省西北部所谓的“金三角”火山岩的化学和时间“指纹”，这是最有希望找到富含贵金属的VHMS和热液矿床的地方，并为矿床勘探人员提供工具，以识别和绘制这些寄主岩石并发现新的矿床。该项目将建立一个地质和勘探框架，以提高金三角贵金属和贱金属的发现成功率。我们将开发新的知识和工具，以帮助勘探人员了解他们在火山地层中的位置，识别最有前景的地层，并使他们能够区分和定位矿床类型。对地层的精确理解将有助于勘探者区分矿化系统和肥沃的寄主岩，增强对矿床构造控制的理解，并使勘探者更容易识别矿床后的构造改造。

This project aims to define a chemical and temporal "fingerprint" for volcanic rocks in the so-called "GoldenTriangle" of northwest British Columbia which are most prospective for precious-metal rich VHMS andepithermal deposits, and supply tools to allow mineral deposit explorers to recognise and map those host rocks and discover new deposits. This project will establish a geological and exploration framework that willimprove precious and base metal discovery success in the Golden Triangle. We will develop new knowledgeand tools to help explorers understand where they are within the volcanic stratigraphy, to recognise the most prospective stratigraphy, and to enable them to differentiate and target mineral deposit styles. A refined stratigraphic understanding will aid explorers to distinguish mineralizing systems and fertile host rocks, allow an enhanced understanding of structural controls on deposits, and enable explorers to more easily recognise post-deposit structural modification.