Mineralized Magmatic Hydrothermal Alteration Systems

这项研究的应用重点是研究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温下与石灰岩和大理石反应的许多稀有金属；这些类型的矿床通常形成世界上最丰富的一些矿床。从特殊的亚碱性到过碱性的花岗岩和伟晶岩，相关的矽卡岩(反应的石灰岩和大理石)，以及它们的伴生碳酸盐对各种特殊稀有金属非常重要，包括锂和钽、钼、Nb和稀土元素，包括Y，这些元素被用于各种能源效率工业部门，作为混合动力汽车和风车、汽车电池和催化剂的强磁铁，仅举几例。对于其中一些稀有元素，西方世界供不应求，以至于他们对勘探行业有相当大的兴趣，这些金属的创纪录价格反映了这一点。这项研究项目将有助于增进我们对这些特定资源的成因的理解，并增强勘探公司可以使用的地质、地球化学和地球物理方法，以发现更多这些不可再生资源，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.