OFR-95-831: Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models

Open-File Report 95–0831

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Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models

Edited By Edward A. du Bray

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Title Page
Contents Page
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1	Geoenvironmental Models of Mineral Deposits—Fundamentals and Applications
Chapter 2	Bioavailability of Metals
Chapter 3	Geophysical Methods in Exploration and Mineral Environmental Investigations
Chapter 4	Magmatic Sulfide Deposits
Chapter 5	Serpentine- and Carbonate-hosted Asbestos Deposits
Chapter 6	Carbonatite Deposits
Chapter 7	Th-rare Earth Element Vein Deposits
Chapter 8	Sn and (or) W Skarn and Replacement Deposits
Chapter 9	Vein and Greisen Sn and W Deposits
Chapter 10	Climax Mo Deposits
Chapter 11	Porphyry Cu Deposits
Chapter 12	Cu, Au, and Zn-Pb Skarn Deposits
Chapter 13	Fe Skarn Deposits
Chapter 14	Polymetallic Vein and Replacement Deposits
Chapter 15	Au-Ag-Te Vein Deposits
Chapter 16	Volcanic-associated Massive Sulfide Deposits
Chapter 17	Blackbird Co-Cu Deposits
Chapter 18	Creede, Comstock, and Sado Epithermal Vein Deposits
Chapter 19	Epithermal Quartz-Alunite Au Deposits
Chapter 20	Epithermal Mn Deposits
Chapter 21	Rhyolite-hosted Sn Deposits
Chapter 22	Low-Ti Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-REE Deposits
Chapter 23	Sediment-hosted Au Deposits
Chapter 24	Almaden Hg Deposits
Chapter 25	Silica-carbonate Hg Deposits
Chapter 26	Stibnite-Quartz Deposits
Chapter 27	Algoma Fe Deposits
Chapter 28	Sediment-hosted Cu Deposits
Chapter 29	Sedimentary Exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits
Chapter 30	Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn Deposits
Chapter 31	Solution-collapse Breccia Pipe U Deposits
Chapter 32	Superior Fe Deposits
Chapter 33	Sedimentary Mn Deposits
Chapter 34	Low Sulfide Au Quartz Veins
Chapter 35	Stratabound Au in Iron Formations

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