Transitions and Zoning in Porphyry-Epithermal Districts: Indicators, Discriminators, and Vectors

旨在提高对斑岩-浅成热液矿区成矿机理的认识，提高找矿成功率。这些地区可发育斑岩型铜钼金矿床（世界上铜的主要来源）、浅成热液型金银矿床、夕卡岩型和沉积型金矿床。这些地区仍然是铜和金勘探者的重要目标，尽管很难在大的背景蚀变带内确定矿带。我们将开发和测试勘探者可以使用的标准，以指示未来的环境，区分矿化风格和矿带方向-无论是斑岩，浅成热液还是其他外围风格。

We aim to improve understanding of ore genesis and exploration success in porphyry-epithermal mineral districts. These districts can contain porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposits (the world's major source of copper), epithermal Au-Ag deposits, skarn and sediment-hosted gold deposits. These districts continue to be important targets for copper and gold explorers, even though it can be difficult to identify the ore zones within large zones of background alteration. We will develop and test criteria that can be used by explorers to indicate prospective environments, discriminate between mineralization styles, and vector towards ore zones - be they of porphyry, epithermal, and/or other peripheral styles.