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This is where it all begins. This is a masterful piece of work done by the MagmaChem team that sets you up to best understand where we are today. If you figure this out and then take the MagmaChem UDH Webinar series, you will be soon equipped with the most cutting-edge geologic tools of our time. Welcome to the team!
This is where it all begins. This is a masterful piece of work done by the MagmaChem team that sets you up to best understand where we are today. If you figure this out and then take the MagmaChem UDH Webinar series, you will be soon equipped with the most cutting-edge geologic tools of our time. Welcome to the team!
The magma-metal series approach to magmatism and related mineral and energy resource deposits is an empirically based, rock-resource classification system that has predictive power for discovering and understanding mineral and energy deposits. The classification system has been developed over the last 40 years by Stanley B. Keith and associates at MagmaChem Exploration, Inc. The approach has been refined and expanded by application of the concept to more than 1,000 ore deposits during the exploration phases funded by various mining and oil companies.
This document introduces the history, theory, research and observations underlying the magma-metal series approach. The document is subdivided into three sections: the Background, Classification, and Practical Application of the magma-metal series approach.
MagmaChem began in 1983 to build on the strong correlation between the petrochemical and mineralogical composition of magma series with spatially and temporally associated mineral deposits (Keith, 2002, Appendix II, Model Table, Model Book). These mineral deposits now number about 11,000 mineral systems that have chemical, production, map, and age data that empirically tie specific igneous suites to specific mineral systems. This mineral deposit library includes metal deposits that range from immiscible magmatic deposits to magmato-hydrothermal pegmatite/greisen (tin-tungsten greisen family) to porphyry metal deposits derived from the exsolution of the incompatible hydrothermal component (for example, the porphyry copper family). The latter incorporates the classic Lindgren taxonomy of hydrothermal, epigenetic, hypothermal, mesothermal, and epithermal deposits. The empirical correlations validate the source-based approach to metallogeny. In this approach, process, deposit shape, or host rocks are superimposed as a kind of mask over the magmatic source of the metal. The mask forms the basis of many erroneous mineral deposit classifications, such as those offered by the Canadian and United States governmental agencies.
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This is where it all begins. This is a masterful piece of work done by the MagmaChem team that sets you up to best understand where we are today. If you figure this out and then take the MagmaChem UDH Webinar series, you will be soon equipped with the most cutting-edge geologic tools of our time. Welcome to the team!
The magma-metal series approach to magmatism and related mineral and energy resource deposits is an empirically based, rock-resource classification system that has predictive power for discovering and understanding mineral and energy deposits. The classification system has been developed over the last 40 years by Stanley B. Keith and associates at MagmaChem Exploration, Inc. The approach has been refined and expanded by application of the concept to more than 1,000 ore deposits during the exploration phases funded by various mining and oil companies.
This document introduces the history, theory, research and observations underlying the magma-metal series approach. The document is subdivided into three sections: the Background, Classification, and Practical Application of the magma-metal series approach.
MagmaChem began in 1983 to build on the strong correlation between the petrochemical and mineralogical composition of magma series with spatially and temporally associated mineral deposits (Keith, 2002, Appendix II, Model Table, Model Book). These mineral deposits now number about 11,000 mineral systems that have chemical, production, map, and age data that empirically tie specific igneous suites to specific mineral systems. This mineral deposit library includes metal deposits that range from immiscible magmatic deposits to magmato-hydrothermal pegmatite/greisen (tin-tungsten greisen family) to porphyry metal deposits derived from the exsolution of the incompatible hydrothermal component (for example, the porphyry copper family). The latter incorporates the classic Lindgren taxonomy of hydrothermal, epigenetic, hypothermal, mesothermal, and epithermal deposits. The empirical correlations validate the source-based approach to metallogeny. In this approach, process, deposit shape, or host rocks are superimposed as a kind of mask over the magmatic source of the metal. The mask forms the basis of many erroneous mineral deposit classifications, such as those offered by the Canadian and United States governmental agencies.
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