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”，这些火山岩最有可能发现富含贵金属的VHMS和低温热液矿床，并提供工具，使矿物存款勘探者能够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，以提高金三角地区贵金属和贱金属发现的成功率。我们将开发新的知识和工具，帮助勘探人员了解他们在火山地层中的位置，识别最具前景的地层，并使他们能够区分和瞄准矿物存款类型。精细的地层学理解将有助于勘探者区分矿化系统和肥沃的寄主岩石，增强对矿床结构控制的理解，并使勘探者更容易识别沉积后的结构变化。

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.