Category Archives: Geophysics

Recently published: Economic Geology Special Issue on the Pebble Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Deposit

Posted on May 2, 2013 by stevepiercey

The May issue of Economic Geology is a special issue on the Pebble Cu-Au-Mo deposit,  located near Iliamna, Alaska, edited by Karen Kelley, James Lang, and Robert Eppinger.  The issue is the culmination of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary collaborative research project between … Continue reading →

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Classic papers in Economic Geology: Fallick et al. (2001) – Bacteria were responsible for the magnitude of the world-class hydrothermal base metal base metal sulfide deposit at Navan, Ireland

Posted on April 30, 2013 by stevepiercey

Irish-type zinc-lead deposits represent a distinctive sub-class of the carbonate-hosted zinc-lead deposit family, having geological features and genetic models that are hybrids between sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX; also known as clastic zinc-lead deposits) and Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits.  They are important … Continue reading →

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Recently published: Elements – One Hundred Years of Geochronology

Posted on April 10, 2013 by stevepiercey

This is more of a notification than a post.  The February issue of Elements magazine has a great collection of papers on One Hundred Years of Geochronology.  While geochronology is not a field of economic geology, it is a tool … Continue reading →

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Instant gold

Posted on March 22, 2013 by stevepiercey

My inaugural posting. An article just recently published online in Nature Geoscience provides new insights into the origin of vein-hosted gold sytems (orogenic or ‘mesothermal‘ gold in the geological literature).  Weatherly and Henley have proposed ideas that link fault systems, … Continue reading →

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