The concept of metallogenic provinces and corresponding epochs has fascinated generations of economic geologists (e.g., Lindgren, 1909), but their definition is still somewhat qualitative. However, few would argue with regions, hundreds to thousands of kilometres long, with unusual concentrations of one or more specific metals that contribute an appreciable share of their global inventories being designated as metallogenic provinces. Some provinces, such as the Witwatersrand goldfields in South Africa and iron deposits hosted by BIFs in the Pilbara craton of Western Australia, are easy to define because they are confined to specific metasedimentary formations. The boundaries of...
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