Stratiform Sb and Au mineralizations in the Hercynian Durico-Beira area (North Portugal)

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

Helena Couto (Author) FCUP; Frederico Sodre Borges (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Vols 1 and 2

Pages: 97-99

8th Biennial SGA Meeting

Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, AUG 18-21, 2005

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Environmental engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-000-694

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27946-6_25

Abstract (EN): Preceeding the main Hercynian Au-As-Sb metallogenic hydrothermal event, metallic preconcentrations (Au, Sb, Pb) occurred during the sedimentation of the Paleozoic, namely in the Precambrian (?) and/or Cambrian layers bearing volcanic prints, in the volcano-sedimentary lower Ordovician and in the basal Carboniferous breccia.The most evident lithostratigraphic control in the Durico-Beirao mining district concerns the Au-As mineralization hosted by the Arenigian alternances along the Eastern limb of the Valongo Anticline,with important syn-diagenetic concentration of gold related to exhalative "black-layer",with pyrite-arsenopyrite. Lithostratigraphic controls are not so evident for the Sb-Au mineralizations that occur west of the Western limb of the Valongo Anticline. Nevertheless, all the studied deposits are hosted by competent sequences, mainly conglomerates, arenites and pelites from the Precambrian (?) and/or Cambrian (Montalto Unit) with acid volcanic rocks intercalated in the base, and in some cases by the Carboniferous basal breccia (paleo-placer type).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 3