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    This document discusses various styles of lode gold deposits found in Archean crust, including: 1. Shallow epithermal, submarine, and Witwatersrand deposits. 2. Moderately deep porphyry, Carlin, skarn, and manto deposits. 3. Deep crustal environments. It examines examples from regions like the Superior Province, Abitibi, Val d'Or, and Australia; describing structural controls at the regional and local scale. Different host rock types are also noted, such as volcanic, plutonic, and iron formations. In the next section, the document will cover alteration and genetic models for these Archean lode gold deposits

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    This document discusses various styles of lode gold deposits found in Archean crust, including: 1. Shallow epithermal, submarine, and Witwatersrand deposits. 2. Moderately deep porphyry, Carlin, skarn, and manto deposits. 3. Deep crustal environments. It examines examples from regions like the Superior Province, Abitibi, Val d'Or, and Australia; describing structural controls at the regional and local scale. Different host rock types are also noted, such as volcanic, plutonic, and iron formations. In the next section, the document will cover alteration and genetic models for these Archean lode gold deposits

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    Lode Gold Deposits

    Emphasis on the Archean


    Lode Gold Deposits
    Gold Deposits
    1. Shallow environments
    • Epithermal (HS, LS, ILS)
    • Submarine exhalative
    • Witwatersrand (?)
    2. Moderately deep
    • Porphyry
    • Carlin
    • Skarn
    • Manto

    3. Deep environments 
    Crustal Environments of Gold
    Deposits

    Poulsen (1996)
    Gold Deposit Classes

    Hagemann and Brown (2000), p. 2


    Gold Deposit Classes
    Hagemann and Brown (2000), p. 2

    •Hagemann and Brown (2000) p.2


    Tectonic Environment
    Kerrich (2000)
    Global Distribution-Archean
    Hagemann and Cassidy (2000), p.11
    Grade and Tonnage

    Poulsen et al. (2000)


    Grade and Tonnage
    Salomon and Groves (2000)
    Grade and Tonnage
    •Hangemann and Cassidy,2000- p.13
    Major Controls-Archean:
    • Structural
     Regional:
    • major tectonic breaks (1st order)

    Local:
    • second- and third-order structures
    • fold-hinge
    • replacement
    Archean
    Gold-
    various
    styles

    Salomon and Groves (2000)


    Regional Structural Controls-
    Superior Province

    Poulsen (1996)
    Regional Structural Controls-Abitibi
    Hangemann and Cassidy (2000)
    Regional structural controls-Val d’Or
    Robert (1996)
    Local Control-
    2nd and 3rd
    order
    structures
    Sigma Mine

    Robert (1996)
    Shear and Tension Veins- Beaufor
    Shear and Tension Veins- Beaufor
    Hodgson, 1989
    Model for vein formation
    Hodgson, 1989
    Regional Structural controls-Australia

    Salomon and Groves (2000)


    Regional
    control-
    Yilgarn
    Block

    Salomon and Groves (2000)


    Regional
    structural
    controls
    Kalgoorlie

    Hagemann and Cassidy (2000)


    Golden
    Mile-
    2nd and 3rd
    order
    structures

    Hagemann and Cassidy (2000)


    Golden Mile-section

    Hagemann and Cassidy (2000)


    Gold in
    iron-
    formation

    Lupin Mine,
    Slave
    Province

    Kerswill (1996)
    Slide Lupin ore
    Gold in
    iron-
    formation

    Cross-section through the


    McLeod deposit,
    Beardmore-
    Geraldton, Ontario

    Kerswill (1996)
    Gold in
    iron-
    formation

    Kerswill (1996)
    “Bousquet-Doyon type”

    High-grade gold-quartz vein,


    Banded massive sulphide Doyon deposit
    Ore- LaRonde mine Pousen et al., 2000
    Hemlo

    Poulsen (2000)
    Hemlo ore zone and alteration

    Golden Giant Mine-Plan


    Poulsen, 1996
    Hemlo-alteration and ore

    Poulsen et al., 2000


    Other
    Structural
    Styles
    ex: Paleozoic
    Meguma terrane but
    similar to Archean
    Pamour Mine

    Robert, 1996
    Other Structural Styles

    This example is a Paleozoic deposit, however the geometry


    of the veins is similar to Pamour Mine, which is Archean.
    Archean Gold-Host Rocks
    Salomon and Groves (2000)
    Archean
    Gold-
    various
    styles

    Salomon and Groves


    (2000)
    Gold Deposits
    They are various “styles” of Archean
    Deposits:
    1. Disseminated
    2. Different styles of veins
    3. Different ages
    4. Different alterations

    They are hosted in different rock types:


    1. Volcanic rocks (mafic and felsic)
    2. Plutonic rocks (mafic and felsic)
    3. Iron-formation and VMS
    4. Turbidite
    Next:
    Alteration
    and
    Genetic Model

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