Mineralized Magmatic Hydrothermal Alteration Systems

该研究应用程序的重点是检查各种矿产资源的形成条件，包括铁，金，铜，以及与岩浆流体在非常高的温度下与石灰石和大理石反应的许多稀有金属;这些各种矿床通常形成世界上最丰富的矿床。专门的亚碱性到过碱性花岗岩和伟晶岩，相关矽卡岩（反应的石灰石和大理石）及其相关的碳酸岩对于各种特种稀有金属（包括锂和钽、钼、铌和稀土元素（包括钇））非常重要，这些稀有金属用于各种能源效率工业部门，作为混合汽车和风车的强磁体、汽车电池和催化剂，仅举几例。对于这些稀有元素中的一些，西方世界供应严重短缺，因此他们对勘探行业有相当大的兴趣，这反映在这些金属的创纪录价格上。该研究项目将有助于提高我们对这些特定资源成因的理解，并增强勘探公司可以用来寻找更多这些不可再生资源的地质，地球化学和地球物理方法，以满足我们未来的需求。

This research application focusses on examining the conditions of formation of a variety of mineral resources including iron, gold, copper, as well as many rare metals in relation to magmatic fluids reacting at very high temperatures with limestones and marbles; these variety of deposits typically form some of the richest deposits in the world. Specialized subalkaline to peralkaline granites and pegmatites, related skarns (reacted limestones and marbles), and their associated carbonatites are very important for a variety of specialty rare-metals, including lithium and tantalum, molybdenum, niobium, and rare-earth elements, including yttrium, which are used in various energy efficiency industrial sectors, as strong magnets for hybrid cars and windmills, car batteries, and catalysts, just to name a few. For some of these rare elements, the western world is in critically short supply such that their is considerable interest in the exploration industry, reflected by record prices for these metals. This research project will help to advance our understanding of the genesis of these specific resources and enhance the geological, geochemical, and geophysical methods that exploration company's can use to find more of these non-renewable resources for our future needs.