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Mobilization and Fractionation of Magmatic Sulfide: Emplacement and Deformation of the Munali Ni-(Cu-Platinum Group Element) Deposit, Zambia
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin
Scattered QL Surface Waves Reveal Edge‐Driven Convection Mantle Flow beneath the Magma‐Poor Malawi Rift Zone, East Africa
Guite, the spinel-structured Co 2+ Co 3+ 2 O 4 , a new mineral from the Sicomines copper–cobalt mine, Democratic Republic of Congo
The principles of helium exploration
New tectonic model and division of the Ubendian-Usagaran Belt, Tanzania: A review and in-situ dating of eclogites
ABSTRACT Records of high-pressure/low-temperature (H P -L T ) metamorphic interfaces are not common in Precambrian orogens. It should be noted that the association of H P -L T metamorphic interfaces and strongly deformed ocean plate stratigraphy that form accretionary prisms between trenches and magmatic arcs are recognized as hallmark signatures of modern plate tectonics. In East Africa (Tanzania), the Paleoproterozoic Ubendian-Usagaran Belt records a H P -L T metamorphic interface that we consider as a centerpiece in reviewing the description of tectonic units of the Ubendian-Usagaran Belt and defining a new tectonic model. Our new U-Pb zircon age and the interpretations from existing data reveal an age between 1920 and 1890 Ma from the kyanite bearing eclogites. This establishment adds to the information of already known H P -L T metamorphic events at 2000 Ma, 1890–1860 Ma, and 590–520 Ma from the Ubendian-Usagaran Belt. Arc–back-arc signatures from eclogites imply that their mafic protoliths were probably eroded from arc basalt above a subduction zone and were channeled into a subduction zone as mélanges and got metamorphosed. The Ubendian-Usagaran events also record rifting, arc and back-arc magmatism, collisional, and hydrothermal events that preceded or followed H P -L T tectonic events. Our new tectonic subdivision of the Ubendian Belt is described as: (1) the western Ubendian Corridor, mainly composed of two Proterozoic suture zones (subduction at 2000, 1920–1890, Ma and 590–500 Ma) in the Ufipa and Nyika Terranes; (2) the central Ubendian Corridor, predominated by metamorphosed mafic-ultramafic rocks in the Ubende, Mbozi, and Upangwa Terranes that include the 1890–1860 Ma eclogites with mid-ocean ridge basalt affinity in the Ubende Terrane; and (3) the eastern Ubendian Corridor (the Katuma and Lupa Terranes), characterized by reworked Archean crust.
Diamondiferous alluvial deposits of the Longatshimo Valley, Kasai Province, southern DRC: a sedimentary and economic model of a central African diamond placer
INVERTEBRATE AND PLANT TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE TERRESTRIAL LATE TRIASSIC OF ZIMBABWE
Copper- and cobalt-rich, ultrapotassic bittern brines responsible for the formation of the Nkana-Mindola deposits, Zambian Copperbelt
Subaqueous debrites of the Grand ConglomÉrat Formation, Democratic Republic of Congo: A model for anomalously thick Neoproterozoic: “Glacial” diamictites
Crosscoherence-based interferometry for the retrieval of first arrivals and subsequent tomographic imaging of differential weathering
Age, origin and palaeogeography of the Southern Irumide Belt, Zambia
Study of the Differences in Infrared Spectra of Emerald from Different Mining Areas and the Controlling Factors
A New Case of Triggered Seismicity Associated with the Itezhi‐Tezhi Reservoir, Zambia
Uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrate minerals: their structural complexity and evolution trends
Maximising the value of Portable XRF data in exploration: An example from Marirongoe, Mozambique
Spatial Periodicity in Self-Organized Ore Systems
Abstract The development of more predictive models for the distribution patterns of large ore deposits and districts is critical for future discovery success in mineral exploration. Some studies have suggested that the distribution of orogenic Au and porphyry Cu deposits appears ordered with a periodic spacing in some mineral provinces, but it remains unclear if spatial periodicity is a common feature of diverse mineral systems. We present evidence for spatial periodicity of large mineral deposit clusters along 20 major structural corridors from nine world-class mineral provinces with five ore deposit types (orogenic Au, porphyry Cu, sediment-hosted Cu and Zn-Pb-Ag, and diamondiferous kimberlites). For orogenic Au deposit clusters, spatial periodicity commonly occurs around 30 to 40 km (range 19–50 km) in the Eastern Goldfields (Australia), Abitibi (Canada), and Sierra Foothills (United States) provinces. Periodicity of moderate- to giant-sized sediment-hosted Cu deposit clusters occurs around 27 km in the Central African Copperbelt (Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo). Large porphyry Cu deposit clusters show periodicity around 65 to 122 km in the American Cordillera (United States, Mexico, Chile). Large shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposit clusters have a periodicity around 116 km in the Carpentaria province (Australia). Finally, kimberlite clusters have a spatial periodicity around 121 to 237 km in southern and central Africa. We also observed a dual periodicity along some structural corridors, with smaller deposits located at half the spacing of giant deposits. Whereas the mineral provinces studied were selected on the basis that they seemed to show spatial periodicity, many other provinces worldwide do not appear to display spatial periodicity of ore deposits. We link our results to the phenomenon of self-organization, which explains emergence of large-scale spatial (and temporal) order in complex systems as an effective mechanism to dissipate large energy gradients. As the best examples of spatial periodicity of ore deposits identified to date are associated with some of the world’s best endowed mineral provinces, it is possible that overall province endowment is linked to both the degree of self-organization and the magnitude of regional energy gradients. Further research is required to identify relevant underlying geologic causes for spatial periodicity. Nevertheless, we provide two case studies suggesting that the intersection of preexisting basement fault sets with at least semiregular spacing may be a common control on spatial periodicity of mineral deposits. Where spatial periodicity of mineral deposits is observed to occur, it can improve the predictive capacity of exploration models and ore discovery rates.
Abstract The Central African Copperbelt is the world’s premier sediment-hosted Cu province. It is contained in the Katangan basin, an intracratonic rift that records onset of growth at ~840 Ma and inversion at ~535 Ma. In the Copperbelt region, the basin has a crudely symmetrical form, with a central depocenter maximum containing ~11 km of strata positioned on the northern side of the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, and marginal condensed sequences <2 km in thickness. This fundamental extensional geometry was preserved through orogenesis, although complex configurations related to halokinesis are prevalent in central and northern parts of the basin, whereas to the south, relatively high-grade metamorphism occurred as a result of basement-involved thrusting and burial. The largest Cu ± Co ores, both stratiform and vein-controlled, are known from the periphery of the basin and transition to U-Ni-Co and Pb-Zn-Cu ores toward the depocenter maximum. Most ore types are positioned within a ~500-m halo to former near-basin-wide salt sheets or associated halokinetic structures, the exception being that located in extreme basin marginal positions, where primary salt was not deposited. Stratiform Cu ± Co ores occur at intrasalt (Congolese-type), subsalt (Zambian-type), and salt-marginal (Kamoa-type) positions. Bulk crush-leach fluid inclusion data from the first two of these deposit types reveal a principal association with residual evaporitic brines. A likely signature of the ore fluids, the brines were generated during deposition of the basin-wide salt-sheets and occupied voluminous sub and intrasalt aquifers from ~800 Ma. Associated intense Mg ± K metasomatism was restricted to these levels, indicating that capping and enclosing salt remained impermeable for prolonged periods of the basin’s history, isolating the deep-seated aquifers from the upper part of the basin fill. From ~765 to 740 Ma, the salt sheets in the Congolese part of the basin were halokinetically modified. Salt was withdrawn laterally to feed diapirs, ultimately leading to localized welding or breaching of the former hydrological seal. At these points, deeper-level residual brines were drawn into the intrasalt stratigraphy to interact with reducing elements and form the stratiform ores. It is probable that salt welding occurred diachronously across the northern and central parts of the basin, depending upon the interplay of original salt thickness, rates and volumes of sediment supply during accumulation of salt overburden, and tectonism. The variable timing of this fundamental change in hydrologic architecture is poorly constrained to the period of halokinetic onset to the earliest stages of orogenesis; however, the geometry of the ores and associated alteration patterns demands that mineralization preceded the characteristically complex fragmentation of the host strata. Thus, while an early orogenic timing is permissible, mineralization during the later stages of extensional basin development was more likely. In situ reducing elements that host Zambian-type stratiform Cu ± Co ores were in continuous hydrological communication with subsalt aquifers, such that ore formation could have commenced from the ~800 Ma brine introduction event. The nonhalokinetic character of the salt in this region allowed the intact seal to have maintained suprahydrostatic pore pressures, facilitating fluid circulation until late stages of basin growth and possibly early stage orogenesis. Leachate data from ores positioned in the depocenter maximum and southern parts of the basin that underwent relatively high grade metamorphism record mixing of residual and halite dissolution-related brines. Salt dissolution was likely triggered by emergence of diapirs or thermally and/or mechanically induced increased permeability of halite. While it is certain that halite dissolution occurred during and after orogenesis, conditions favorable for salt dissolution may have existed locally during extension in the depocenter maximum. The permeability of salt increased to a point where it became the principal aquifer. The salt’s properties as an aquiclude lost, originally deep-seated residual brine mixed with new phases of evaporite dissolution-related brine to produce ores at middle levels of the basin fill. During the final stages of ore formation, recorded by postorogenic Pb-Zn-Cu mineralization in the depocenter maximum, the salinity of fluids was dominantly derived from the dissolution of remnant bodies of salt.