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- molybdenum deposit, central Chile. The breccia hosts approximately one-quarter of the total resource of
- 57 Mt of fine copper at Rio Blanco. The breccia is hosted within, and contains altered clasts of, granodiorite
- from the 12 to 8 Ma San Francisco batholith, which intruded a sequence of Miocene volcanic and volcaniclastic
- rocks. A series of weakly mineralized to barren felsic porphyries cut the breccia and indicate a minimum
- age of approximately 6 Ma for mineralization at Sur-Sur.
- The Sur-Sur breccia dike is at least 3 km long, 0.2 km wide, and has a vertical extent of at least 1 km. The
- breccia has been cemented by early biotite and anhydrite at depth and by tourmaline and specularite at higher
- altitudes. These early-formed cements have been overgrown and in some cases replaced by chalcopyrite, magnetite,
- pyrite, and quartz. Mineralogical zonation in the breccia includes a transition from biotite cement and
- related biotite alteration upward to tourmaline cement and quartz-sericite-tourmaline alteration at approximately
- 3,000-m elevation. Iron-oxide minerals are also zoned, with a transition upward from a magnetite-dominated
- zone below 3,330 m to a specularite-dominated zone above 3,600 m. Pyrite is the dominant sulfide at
- altitudes above 4,000 m.
- Secondary liquid-rich, vapor-rich, and hypersaline fluid inclusions are preserved in quartz and tourmaline
- cement. Measured homogenization temperatures are mostly between 300 degrees and 450 degrees C, and salinities range from 0 to 69 wt percent NaCl equiv. Sulfur isotope compositions of sulfide cement range from -4.1 to +2.7 per mil.
- The lowest delta 34S(sulfide) values are in samples from between 3,700- and 4,000-m elevation, where they correspond
- to the highest copper grades in the tourmaline breccia. This high-grade zone also contains abundant specularite
- (locally replaced by magnetite). Modeling of sulfate-sulfide equilibrium indicate that approximately 150 degrees C of cooling over a vertical interval of 100 m would be required to account for the zonation of sulfide isotope
- compositions at Sur-Sur, making conductive cooling an unlikely ore-forming mechanism.
- Measured 206Pb/204Pb values of lead in anhydrite cement in the Sur-Sur tourmaline breccia and the Rio
- Blanco magmatic breccia range from 17.558 to 18.479. 207Pb/204Pb values range from 15.534 to 15.623, and
- 208Pb/204Pb values range from 37.341 to 38.412. The lead in anhydrite is considerably less radiogenic than that
- indicated by values obtained previously for lead in sulfide ores and igneous host rocks at Rio Blanco-Los
- Bronces. The source of lead in anhydrite must have been from rocks external to the main magmatichydrothermal
- system, probably the Precordilleran basement.
- A magmatic-hydrothermal explosion from a deep-seated crystallizing intrusion triggered breccia formation
- at Sur-Sur. Hydrostatic pressures catastrophically exceeded lithostatic load plus the tensile strength of the confining
- granodiorite, leading to widespread brecciation and subsequent invasion by large volumes of magmatic
- gas and hypersaline brine. The low-density gas phase (carrying H2O, SO2, HCl, and B2O3) separated physically
- from the dense copper-bearing brine and flushed through the breccia column first, where it condensed into
- ground waters of uncertain derivation. Anhydrite, specularite, and tourmaline were deposited from this lowsalinity,
- acidic, oxidized hybrid solution. Subsequent upwelling of magmatic-hydrothermal brine resulted in
- sulfide deposition. High-grade copper deposition is interpreted to have occurred in response to mixing of the
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- 57 Mt of fine copper at Rio Blanco. The breccia is hosted within, and contains altered clasts of, granodiorite
- from the 12 to 8 Ma San Francisco batholith, which intruded a sequence of Miocene volcanic and volcaniclastic
- rocks. A series of weakly mineralized to barren felsic porphyries cut the breccia and indicate a minimum
- age of approximately 6 Ma for mineralization at Sur-Sur.
- The Sur-Sur breccia dike is at least 3 km long, 0.2 km wide, and has a vertical extent of at least 1 km. The
- breccia has been cemented by early biotite and anhydrite at depth and by tourmaline and specularite at higher
- altitudes. These early-formed cements have been overgrown and in some cases replaced by chalcopyrite, magnetite,
- pyrite, and quartz. Mineralogical zonation in the breccia includes a transition from biotite cement and
- related biotite alteration upward to tourmaline cement and quartz-sericite-tourmaline alteration at approximately
- 3,000-m elevation. Iron-oxide minerals are also zoned, with a transition upward from a magnetite-dominated
- zone below 3,330 m to a specularite-dominated zone above 3,600 m. Pyrite is the dominant sulfide at
- altitudes above 4,000 m.
- Secondary liquid-rich, vapor-rich, and hypersaline fluid inclusions are preserved in quartz and tourmaline
- cement. Measured homogenization temperatures are mostly between 300 degrees and 450 degrees C, and salinities range from 0 to 69 wt percent NaCl equiv. Sulfur isotope compositions of sulfide cement range from -4.1 to +2.7 per mil.
- The lowest delta 34S(sulfide) values are in samples from between 3,700- and 4,000-m elevation, where they correspond
- to the highest copper grades in the tourmaline breccia. This high-grade zone also contains abundant specularite
- (locally replaced by magnetite). Modeling of sulfate-sulfide equilibrium indicate that approximately 150 degrees C of cooling over a vertical interval of 100 m would be required to account for the zonation of sulfide isotope
- compositions at Sur-Sur, making conductive cooling an unlikely ore-forming mechanism.
- Measured 206Pb/204Pb values of lead in anhydrite cement in the Sur-Sur tourmaline breccia and the Rio
- Blanco magmatic breccia range from 17.558 to 18.479. 207Pb/204Pb values range from 15.534 to 15.623, and
- 208Pb/204Pb values range from 37.341 to 38.412. The lead in anhydrite is considerably less radiogenic than that
- indicated by values obtained previously for lead in sulfide ores and igneous host rocks at Rio Blanco-Los
- Bronces. The source of lead in anhydrite must have been from rocks external to the main magmatichydrothermal
- system, probably the Precordilleran basement.
- A magmatic-hydrothermal explosion from a deep-seated crystallizing intrusion triggered breccia formation
- at Sur-Sur. Hydrostatic pressures catastrophically exceeded lithostatic load plus the tensile strength of the confining
- granodiorite, leading to widespread brecciation and subsequent invasion by large volumes of magmatic
- gas and hypersaline brine. The low-density gas phase (carrying H2O, SO2, HCl, and B2O3) separated physically
- from the dense copper-bearing brine and flushed through the breccia column first, where it condensed into
- ground waters of uncertain derivation. Anhydrite, specularite, and tourmaline were deposited from this lowsalinity,
- acidic, oxidized hybrid solution. Subsequent upwelling of magmatic-hydrothermal brine resulted in
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- <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Mineralogical and Isotopic Zonation in the Sur-Sur Tourmaline Breccia, Rio Blanco-Los Bronces Cu-Mo Deposit, Chile: Implications for Ore Genesis</h1>
- <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Frikken, P.</span> and <span class="person_name">Cooke, D.R.</span> and <span class="person_name">Walshe, J.L.</span> and <span class="person_name">Archibald, D.A.</span> and <span class="person_name">Skarmeta, J.</span> and <span class="person_name">Serrano, L.</span> and <span class="person_name">Vargas, R.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Mineralogical and Isotopic Zonation in the Sur-Sur Tourmaline Breccia, Rio Blanco-Los Bronces Cu-Mo Deposit, Chile: Implications for Ore Genesis.</xhtml:em> Economic Geology, 100 (5). pp. 935-961. 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/1991/1/Frikken%2C_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/1991/1/Frikken%2C_Cooke_et_al_ECON_GEOL_2005.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />2145Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input value="2466" 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/10.2113/100.5.935">http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/100.5.935</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">The Sur-Sur tourmaline breccia is located in the southeast part of the Rio Blanco-Los Bronces porphyry copper-
- molybdenum deposit, central Chile. The breccia hosts approximately one-quarter of the total resource of
- 57 Mt of fine copper at Rio Blanco. The breccia is hosted within, and contains altered clasts of, granodiorite
- from the 12 to 8 Ma San Francisco batholith, which intruded a sequence of Miocene volcanic and volcaniclastic
- rocks. A series of weakly mineralized to barren felsic porphyries cut the breccia and indicate a minimum
- age of approximately 6 Ma for mineralization at Sur-Sur.
- The Sur-Sur breccia dike is at least 3 km long, 0.2 km wide, and has a vertical extent of at least 1 km. The
- breccia has been cemented by early biotite and anhydrite at depth and by tourmaline and specularite at higher
- altitudes. These early-formed cements have been overgrown and in some cases replaced by chalcopyrite, magnetite,
- pyrite, and quartz. Mineralogical zonation in the breccia includes a transition from biotite cement and
- related biotite alteration upward to tourmaline cement and quartz-sericite-tourmaline alteration at approximately
- 3,000-m elevation. Iron-oxide minerals are also zoned, with a transition upward from a magnetite-dominated
- zone below 3,330 m to a specularite-dominated zone above 3,600 m. Pyrite is the dominant sulfide at
- altitudes above 4,000 m.
- Secondary liquid-rich, vapor-rich, and hypersaline fluid inclusions are preserved in quartz and tourmaline
- cement. Measured homogenization temperatures are mostly between 300 degrees and 450 degrees C, and salinities range from 0 to 69 wt percent NaCl equiv. Sulfur isotope compositions of sulfide cement range from -4.1 to +2.7 per mil.
- The lowest delta 34S(sulfide) values are in samples from between 3,700- and 4,000-m elevation, where they correspond
- to the highest copper grades in the tourmaline breccia. This high-grade zone also contains abundant specularite
- (locally replaced by magnetite). Modeling of sulfate-sulfide equilibrium indicate that approximately 150 degrees C of cooling over a vertical interval of 100 m would be required to account for the zonation of sulfide isotope
- compositions at Sur-Sur, making conductive cooling an unlikely ore-forming mechanism.
- Measured 206Pb/204Pb values of lead in anhydrite cement in the Sur-Sur tourmaline breccia and the Rio
- Blanco magmatic breccia range from 17.558 to 18.479. 207Pb/204Pb values range from 15.534 to 15.623, and
- 208Pb/204Pb values range from 37.341 to 38.412. The lead in anhydrite is considerably less radiogenic than that
- indicated by values obtained previously for lead in sulfide ores and igneous host rocks at Rio Blanco-Los
- Bronces. The source of lead in anhydrite must have been from rocks external to the main magmatichydrothermal
- system, probably the Precordilleran basement.
- A magmatic-hydrothermal explosion from a deep-seated crystallizing intrusion triggered breccia formation
- at Sur-Sur. Hydrostatic pressures catastrophically exceeded lithostatic load plus the tensile strength of the confining
- granodiorite, leading to widespread brecciation and subsequent invasion by large volumes of magmatic
- gas and hypersaline brine. The low-density gas phase (carrying H2O, SO2, HCl, and B2O3) separated physically
- from the dense copper-bearing brine and flushed through the breccia column first, where it condensed into
- ground waters of uncertain derivation. Anhydrite, specularite, and tourmaline were deposited from this lowsalinity,
- acidic, oxidized hybrid solution. Subsequent upwelling of magmatic-hydrothermal brine resulted in
- sulfide deposition. High-grade copper deposition is interpreted to have occurred in response to mixing of the
- oxidized, acidic water with the copper-bearing magmatic-hydrothermal brine.</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 radiogenic isotopes fluid mixing</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">1991</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">26 Sep 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">23 Jan 2008 14:59</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=1991;">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=1991">item control page</a></p>
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