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Targeting Stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag Massive Sulfide Deposits in Ireland through Numerical Modeling of Coupled Deformation, Thermal Transport, and Fluid Flow
Fault-related dilation, permeability enhancement, fluid flow and mineral precipitation patterns: numerical models
Abstract Fault-related host rock deformation and dilation control fluid flow and mineralization in many world-class mineral deposits. This numerical modelling study explores the interactions between deformation, faulting, dilation, fluid flow and chemical processes, which are suggested to result in this control, with special attention to fault dilatant jog structures. Our two-dimensional numerical models focus on faulting-related deformation, dilation and permeability enhancement, fluid flow patterns and fluid focusing/mixing locations, while three-dimensional models examine several different cases of fault underlap and overlap. The results show that fault-dilation and faulting-induced permeability enhancement, which are closely associated with tensile failure, represent important ways to generate fluid flow conduits for more effective fluid flow and mixing. Dilation during strike–slip faulting is localized near fault tips (wing crack locations) and jog sites, where fluids are strongly focused and mixed. These locations are the tensile domains of the strike–slip regime. In overlapping-fault (dilatant jog) cases, the magnitude of dilation and the extent of the dilatant region are closely related to the extent of fault overlap. These results provide insight into the transport of fluids through low-permeability rocks with isolated, but more permeable, faults. Gold and quartz precipitation patterns as a result of the coupling of chemical reactions to deformation induced fluid flow velocities are also computed. The rates of precipitation depend on structural and fluid flow conditions and on the geometrical relation between local fluid velocity and chemical concentration gradients generated by mixing. Maximum precipitation rates for gold occur in the dilation zones and in faults where high fluid flow rates, sufficient fluid mixing and high concentration gradients of critical chemical species are all present, while the quartz precipitation rate is predominantly controlled, in this isothermal situation, by the rate of fluid flow across concentration gradients in the aqueous silica concentration.
Abstract This paper examines progressive evolution of fault architectures through late orogenic compression- to post-orogenic extensional deformation in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa. The results indicate that rapid extrusion of mafic lavas of the lower Klipriviersberg Group formed a rigid ‘lid’ over the thrust front, changing its mechanical character and thereby driving a change of structural style from fold growth to passive roof duplex. Flexural tightening of folds in the core of the triangle zones at this time may have helped provide the dynamic permeability for distributed ingress of hydrothermal fluids and consequent gold mineralization. Shortly afterwards, the kinematic environment changed to become extensional. However, this study shows sharp lateral partitioning of the duration of kinematic style and structural amplification, such that thrusting and extension coexisted along strike in the upper Klipriviersberg Group. Thus the switch from thrusting to extension was progressive within the region, but locally very rapid. As the local kinematic environment became extensional, the fault system evolved progressively, with the early stages of kinematic changes being dominated by a process of reactivation by architectural scavenging, in which new extensional structures developed by selectively reusing and incorporating geometrical segments of earlier formed thrust and normal faults. Three basic stages can be identified in this evolution: broad extension above underlying detachments, involving reactivation of lateral structures; a period of intensive reactivation and kinematic reworking incorporating frontal structures; and an abandonment stage when the detailed influence of the earlier architecture diminished and the fault system developed larger through-going normal faults. The interaction of the newly developing fault system with the pre-existing architecture constitutes pre-programming of the final geometry, in which individual large faults are composed of a reticulated network of new and inherited segments. The observations are consistent with fault scale being a key control on the fault reactivation involved. This study has involved full integration of a dataset comprising 2D and 3D seismic reflection data, geological mine plans, logging of over 120 km of drill core and underground mapping in deep mine workings that pass 3 km into the seismic volume at 2–3 km depth.
Abstract This paper address the question of why giant gold deposits are so unevenly spread over the continents, what processes control their distribution, and how more might be found? Using the source-migration-trap paradigm, it is proposed that the regional distribution of gold deposits is controlled by fluid access to gold sources on a regional scale, and by large-scale migration mechanisms. Local distribution is controlled by migration and trap processes, not discussed in this paper. Our current levels of understanding of gold suggest a strong geodynamic control in the generation of enriched source rocks and the fluids that may carry gold, particularly the influence of subduction and accretion during orogeny. A new six-fold geodynamic classification system that emphasizes subduction and accretion processes has been used here qualitatively to assess the potential for gold-bearing source areas. The resulting classification is compared to the distribution of 181 known giant gold deposits (those with more than 100 t contained gold). The results confirm the proposition that the distribution of giant gold deposits is ultimately a function of the amount of oceanic crust consumed during the orogenic episode that built that part of the crust. Of the six geodynamic classes described, large ocean closure orogens were found to contain the most gold, with nearly half of the world's gold held in known giant deposits. Implications for understanding ore genesis, exploration for other giant deposits, and for other empirical explanations of the distribution of gold are discussed further.