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    Orogenic Gold Review: By: Ghaneswari Yugamaris Muhammad Arba Azzaman Ni'matul Azizah Raharjanti Sam Reach

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of orogenic gold deposits. Orogenic gold forms in collision zones and accreted terranes during mountain building processes. It is typically found within 6-12 km depth in greenschist to lower amphibolite facies host rocks like sediments and volcanics. Veins are quartz-carbonate dominated with small amounts of sulfides. Alteration forms halos of sericite, carbonates and sulfides. Gold is deposited from low salinity, near-neutral fluids released during metamorphism and concentrated along faults and fractures in the crust.

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of orogenic gold deposits. Orogenic gold forms in collision zones and accreted terranes during mountain building processes. It is typically found within 6-12 km depth in greenschist to lower amphibolite facies host rocks like sediments and volcanics. Veins are quartz-carbonate dominated with small amounts of sulfides. Alteration forms halos of sericite, carbonates and sulfides. Gold is deposited from low salinity, near-neutral fluids released during metamorphism and concentrated along faults and fractures in the crust.

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of orogenic gold deposits. Orogenic gold forms in collision zones and accreted terranes during mountain building processes. It is typically found within 6-12 km depth in greenschist to lower amphibolite facies host rocks like sediments and volcanics. Veins are quartz-carbonate dominated with small amounts of sulfides. Alteration forms halos of sericite, carbonates and sulfides. Gold is deposited from low salinity, near-neutral fluids released during metamorphism and concentrated along faults and fractures in the crust.

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of orogenic gold deposits. Orogenic gold forms in collision zones and accreted terranes during mountain building processes. It is typically found within 6-12 km depth in greenschist to lower amphibolite facies host rocks like sediments and volcanics. Veins are quartz-carbonate dominated with small amounts of sulfides. Alteration forms halos of sericite, carbonates and sulfides. Gold is deposited from low salinity, near-neutral fluids released during metamorphism and concentrated along faults and fractures in the crust.

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    Orogenic Gold Review

    By:
    Ghaneswari Yugamaris
    Muhammad Arba Azzaman
    Ni’matul Azizah Raharjanti
    Sam Reach
    Content:
    • Introduction
    • Tectonic Setting
    • Characteristics of Orogenic Gold deposit
    • Genesis of Orogenic Gold
    • Conclusion
    Introduction: Orogenic Au
    • Orogenic gold is deposit that associated with
    regionally metamorphosed terranes.
    • Groves et al (1998), its deposit is orogeny or the
    mountain-building process
    Zonation in Orogenic Gold Deposit
    • Epizonal deposits form within 6
    km depth at T : 150–300°C and
    P: 0.5 – 1.5 kb
    • Mesozonal deposits form at
    depths of 6–12 km and at T:
    300–475°C and P: 1.5 – 3.0 kb
    • Hypozonal deposits form below
    12 km and at T: exceeding 475°C
    and P: 3.0 – 6.0 kb.
    Tectonic Setting
    Orogenic gold is
    formed in active
    continental
    margin setting,
    especially in
    collision zone
    and accreted
    terranes.
    Characteristics: Mineralogy
    • Mineralogy dominated by quartz vein system with ≤ 3-5%
    sulfide mineral, mainly Fe-sulfide and ≤5-15% carbonate
    mineral.
    • Vein systems may be continuous along a vertical extent of
    1–2 km with little change in mineralogy or gold grade
    • Gangue minerals: Albite, white mica, chlorite, and
    tourmaline.
    • Gold grade: 5-30 gr/ton
    Characteristics: Host rock
    • Sedimentary rocks:
    – Greywacke-slate Those host rocks
    metamorphosed mainly into
    sequences greenschist facies and some
    • Igneous rocks: in subgreenschist facies to
    lower granulite.
    – Mafic volcanic or
    intrusive rock
    Characteristics: Alteration
    • Deposits exhibit strong lateral zonation of alteration phases
    from proximal to distal assemblages on scales of metres.
    • Mineralogical assemblages: carbonates (ankerite, dolomite
    or calcite), sulfides (pyrite, pyrrhotite or arsenopyrite), and
    sericitization.
    • Wallrock alteration in greenschist facies rocks: enrich in
    CO2, S, K, H2O, SiO2, ± Na and LILE.
    Characteristics: P-T conditions
    • Temperature: 220°-600°C (350±50°C)
    • Pressure: 0.5-4.5 kbars (1.5±0.5kbars)
    Characteristic: Fluid
    • Prograde metamorphism in most cases
    produces fluids through devolatilization
    • These released fluids tend to move upward
    because of the difference between their
    density and the density of the surrounding
    rock
    Yardley and Graham, 2002
    Characteristics: Fluids
    • Low salinity
    • Near-neutral
    • H2O-CO2±CH4 fluids as a reduced sulphur
    complex.
    • CO2 concentrations of ≥5 mol%.
    Characteristics: Structure
    • Vary in scale (second and third order)
    • Near compressional structure
    – Fault (Reverse Fault, strike-slip fault, oblique fault)
    – Fracture, stockwork, breccia zone
    – Foliated zone
    – Fold hinge in ductile turbidite sequences
    Characteristics: Ore
    • Au-Ag ± As ± B ± Bi ± Sb ± Te ± W
    • Sulphide minerals can distinguish host rock
    – Arsenopyrite  sedimentary rocks
    – Pyrite and pyrrhotite  igneous rocks
    Genesis of Orogenic Gold Deposit
    • Generally, orogenic gold deposit form when
    host rock metamorphosed into greenschist
    facies.
    Host rock was buried along compressional tectonic setting
    (continental margin)

    As the depth increase, the host rock is metamorphosed into


    amphibolite facies (T: 600°C, depth >15km)

    This rocks release fluids, moved fluid contain metal upwards to


    greenschist facies (T: 300-400°C, depth 10-15 km)

    Fluid precipitated quartz and gold, and filled the fault and fracture.
    Terima Kasih

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