SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC.
Special Publication Number 16
Contents
Appendices for Borg et al. and Schuh et al. and archived SEG papers, 1971 to 2013, by Richard H. Sillitoe
are included on this DVD. Papers by R. H. Sillitoe are listed following the Table of Contents
Foreword Eric Finlayson ix
Acknowledgments Jeffrey W. Hedenquist, Michael Harris, Francisco Camus xiii
Introduction
1 Copper Provinces Richard H. Sillitoe 1
Major Deposits
2 Update of the Geologic Setting and Porphyry Sergio L. Rivera, Hugo Alcota,
Cu-Mo Deposits of the Chuquicamata District, John Proffett, Jaime Díaz,
Northern Chile Gabriel Leiva, and Manuel Vergara 19
3 Geologic Overview of the Miguel Hervé, Richard H. Sillitoe, Chilong Wong,
Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Patricio Fernández, Francisco Crignola,
Northern Chile Marco Ipinza, and Felipe Urzúa 55
4 Geologic Setting and Evolution of the José Perelló, Richard H. Sillitoe,
Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum and Copper- Constantino Mpodozis,
Gold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile Humberto Brockway, and Héctor Posso 79
5 Protracted Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of
the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Juan Carlos Toro, Javier Ortúzar,
Development of World’s Greatest Known Jorge Zamorano, Paticio Cuadra,
Concentration of Copper Juan Hermosilla, and Cristian Spröhnle 105
6 Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry John P. Porter, Kim Schroeder,
Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Utah and Gerry Austin 127
7 Geology and Exploration Progress Carl Hehnke, Geoff Ballantyne,
at the Resolution Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Hamish Martin, William Hart,
Arizona Adam Schwarz, and Holly Stein 147
8 Magmatic-Hydrothermal-Structural Evolution
of the Giant Pebble Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Deposit
with Implications for Exploration in Southwest Alaska James R. Lang and Melissa J. Gregory 167
9 Geologic Overview of the Oyu Tolgoi Porphyry
Cu-Au-Mo Deposits, Mongolia David Crane and Imants Kavalieris 187
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10 Copper-Gold ± Molybdenum Deposits of the Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,
Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Brian T.E. New, and George D. MacDonald 215
11 Geology and Mineralogical Zonation of the Olympic Kathy Ehrig, Jocelyn McPhie,
Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia and Vadim Kamenetsky 237
12 Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume Sediment-
Hosted Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District, Wolfram Schuh, Richard A. Leveille,
Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Isabel Fay, and Robert North 269
13 Dzhezkazgan and Associated Sandstone Copper Stephen E. Box, Boris Syusyura,
Deposits of the Chu-Sarysu Basin, Reimar Seltmann, Robert A. Creaser,
Central Kazakhstan Alla Dolgopolova, and Michael L. Zientek 303
Premier Provinces
14 Cenozoic Tectonics and Porphyry Copper
Systems of the Chilean Andes Constantino Mpodozis and Paula Cornejo 329
15 The Southwestern North America
Porphyry Copper Province Richard A. Leveille and Ralph J. Stegen 361
16 Tectonomagmatic Settings, Architecture, Alexander Yakubchuk, Kirill Degtyarev,
and Metallogeny of the Central Asian Valery Maslennikov, Andrew Wurst,
Copper Province Alexander Stekhin, and Konstantin Lobanov 403
17 The Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Roberto Perez Xavier, Lena Virgínia Soares Monteiro,
Systems of the Carajás Carolina Penteado N. Moreto, André Luiz Silva Pestilho,
Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco Antônio Delinardo da Silva,
Benevides Aires, Cleive Ribeiro, and Flávio Henrique Freitas e Silva 433
18 An Overview of the European Gregor Borg, Adam Piestrzyński,
Kupferschiefer Deposits Gerhard H. Bachmann, Wilhelm Püttmann,
Sabine Walther, and Marco Fiedler 455
19 The Central African Copperbelt:
Diverse Stratigraphic, Structural, and Murray W. Hitzman, David Broughton,
Temporal Settings in the World’s Largest David Selley, Jon Woodhead,
Sedimentary Copper District David Wood, and Stuart Bull 487
Genetic Themes
20 Copper-Rich Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits D. R. Burrows and C. M. Lesher 515
21 Magmatic Controls on Porphyry Copper Genesis Andreas Audétat and Adam C. Simon 553
22 Hydrothermal Controls on Metal Distribution Kalin Kouzmanov
in Porphyry Cu (-Mo-Au) Systems and Gleb S. Pokrovski 573
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