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- porphyry Cu deposit. There is an intimate spatial and temporal association between all stages of mineralization
- and latest Miocene to early Pliocene felsic intrusions at Teniente.
- Most of the copper was emplaced during the late magmatic stage (5.9-4.9 Ma), contemporaneously with intrusion
- of the dacite porphyry dike and dacite pipes into a mafic to intermediate sill-stock complex. Mineralization
- of the late magmatic stage is mainly hosted by a quartz-anhydrite-dominated stockwork associated with
- K-feldspar alteration in the dacites and Na-K-feldspar, biotite, and propylitic alteration of the mafic intrusive
- package. Minor copper-mineralized hydrothermal biotite-cemented breccias formed at this time. The late
- magmatic stage was followed by two stages of mineralized phyllic alteration, referred to as the principal hydrothermal
- (4.9-4.8 Ma) and late hydrothermal (4.8-4.4 Ma) stages, during which thicker, Cu-rich veins were
- emplaced. A 1,200-m-wide breccia pipe, the Braden Breccia, formed during the late hydrothermal stage and
- appears to have destroyed a large amount of ore from the center of the deposit.
- The late magmatic and principal hydrothermal vein stages have predominantly concentric and radial vein
- orientations centered on the Braden Pipe. Most of the concentric veins are shallowly dipping, whereas the radial
- veins are subvertical. We present a model in which vein distributions were controlled by the local stress
- regime generated by the intrusion of a large, deep magma chamber that is interpreted to be the source of the
- dacites, the Braden Pipe, and ultimately, the copper and molybdenum mineralization. The late hydrothermal
- veins are steeply inward dipping and concentric to the Braden Pipe. In contrast to the late magmatic and principal
- hydrothermal vein stages, radial veins and shallow-dipping concentric veins are rare, consistent with formation
- during a stage of subsidence due to relaxation of intrusion-induced stresses. Resurgence of the magma
- chamber reactivated the steep concentric structures in a reverse sense, and a build up of magmatic and/or fluid
- pressure resulted in explosive brecciation and fluidization, producing the Braden Pipe. A predominantly late set of northeast-trending faults, associated with movements on the district-scale Teniente fault zone, is the only evidence for far-field stresses exceeding local stresses in the deposit." name="eprints.abstract" />
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- in size, with >94 million metric tons (Mt) of contained fine copper making it the worlds largest known
- porphyry Cu deposit. There is an intimate spatial and temporal association between all stages of mineralization
- and latest Miocene to early Pliocene felsic intrusions at Teniente.
- Most of the copper was emplaced during the late magmatic stage (5.9-4.9 Ma), contemporaneously with intrusion
- of the dacite porphyry dike and dacite pipes into a mafic to intermediate sill-stock complex. Mineralization
- of the late magmatic stage is mainly hosted by a quartz-anhydrite-dominated stockwork associated with
- K-feldspar alteration in the dacites and Na-K-feldspar, biotite, and propylitic alteration of the mafic intrusive
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- magmatic stage was followed by two stages of mineralized phyllic alteration, referred to as the principal hydrothermal
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- appears to have destroyed a large amount of ore from the center of the deposit.
- The late magmatic and principal hydrothermal vein stages have predominantly concentric and radial vein
- orientations centered on the Braden Pipe. Most of the concentric veins are shallowly dipping, whereas the radial
- veins are subvertical. We present a model in which vein distributions were controlled by the local stress
- regime generated by the intrusion of a large, deep magma chamber that is interpreted to be the source of the
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- <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Geology, Mineralization, Alteration, and Structural Evolution of the El Teniente Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit</h1>
- <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Cannell, J.</span> and <span class="person_name">Cooke, D.R.</span> and <span class="person_name">Walshe, J.L.</span> and <span class="person_name">Stein, Holly J.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Geology, Mineralization, Alteration, and Structural Evolution of the El Teniente Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit.</xhtml:em> Economic Geology, 100 (5). pp. 979-1003. ISSN 0361-0128</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1908/1/Cannell_Cooke_et_al_ECON_GEOL_2005.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" border="0" class="ep_doc_icon" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1908/1/Cannell_Cooke_et_al_ECON_GEOL_2005.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />4Mb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input value="2403" name="docid" accept-charset="utf-8" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/100.5.979">http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/100.5.979</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">El Teniente is a typical porphyry Cu-Mo deposit-in terms of its alteration and sulfide assemblage zonation,
- association with felsic intrusions, and predominance of quartz vein-hosted copper mineralization. It is anomalous
- in size, with >94 million metric tons (Mt) of contained fine copper making it the worlds largest known
- porphyry Cu deposit. There is an intimate spatial and temporal association between all stages of mineralization
- and latest Miocene to early Pliocene felsic intrusions at Teniente.
- Most of the copper was emplaced during the late magmatic stage (5.9-4.9 Ma), contemporaneously with intrusion
- of the dacite porphyry dike and dacite pipes into a mafic to intermediate sill-stock complex. Mineralization
- of the late magmatic stage is mainly hosted by a quartz-anhydrite-dominated stockwork associated with
- K-feldspar alteration in the dacites and Na-K-feldspar, biotite, and propylitic alteration of the mafic intrusive
- package. Minor copper-mineralized hydrothermal biotite-cemented breccias formed at this time. The late
- magmatic stage was followed by two stages of mineralized phyllic alteration, referred to as the principal hydrothermal
- (4.9-4.8 Ma) and late hydrothermal (4.8-4.4 Ma) stages, during which thicker, Cu-rich veins were
- emplaced. A 1,200-m-wide breccia pipe, the Braden Breccia, formed during the late hydrothermal stage and
- appears to have destroyed a large amount of ore from the center of the deposit.
- The late magmatic and principal hydrothermal vein stages have predominantly concentric and radial vein
- orientations centered on the Braden Pipe. Most of the concentric veins are shallowly dipping, whereas the radial
- veins are subvertical. We present a model in which vein distributions were controlled by the local stress
- regime generated by the intrusion of a large, deep magma chamber that is interpreted to be the source of the
- dacites, the Braden Pipe, and ultimately, the copper and molybdenum mineralization. The late hydrothermal
- veins are steeply inward dipping and concentric to the Braden Pipe. In contrast to the late magmatic and principal
- hydrothermal vein stages, radial veins and shallow-dipping concentric veins are rare, consistent with formation
- during a stage of subsidence due to relaxation of intrusion-induced stresses. Resurgence of the magma
- chamber reactivated the steep concentric structures in a reverse sense, and a build up of magmatic and/or fluid
- pressure resulted in explosive brecciation and fluidization, producing the Braden Pipe. A predominantly late set of northeast-trending faults, associated with movements on the district-scale Teniente fault zone, is the only evidence for far-field stresses exceeding local stresses in the deposit.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" border="0" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">porphyry copper molybdenum structure paragenesis geochronology</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/260100.html">260000 Earth Sciences > 260100 Geology</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Collections:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">UNSPECIFIED</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1908</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Mrs Katrina Keep</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">19 Sep 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">29 Jan 2008 20:32</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1908;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1908">item control page</a></p>
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