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Ore Textures

Recognition and Interpretation

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Roger Taylor

    1. School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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  • Simply described with numerous detailed photos

  • Provides the building blocks for understanding the full range of textures commonly found associated with hydrothermal ore deposits

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-9
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  2. Infill Textures

    • Roger Taylor
    Pages 1-31

  3. Alteration Textures

    • Roger Taylor
    Pages 35-94

  4. Overprinting Textures

    • Roger Taylor
    Pages 99-156

  5. Broken Rocks · Breccia I

    • Roger Taylor
    Pages 163-219

  6. Broken Rocks · Breccia II

    • Roger Taylor
    Pages 223-282

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 1-6
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Tis text has resulted from some forty years of experience during which the author has puzzled over the meaning of ore textures. Te learning process has been slow and is still incomplete. Te bemusement began directly upon leaving the academic confnes, which in retrospect lef one keen young geologist very ill-equipped to interpret the mineralising process via feld or hand lens style observation of the rocks. Enlightenment has proceeded via a series of events:- 1. Te slow process of feld observation as an industry-based mine and exploration geologist. 2. Te opportunity to visit numerous diferent styles of ore deposit both as an academic and consultant. 3. Te need to answer questions from several generations of enquiring students. 4. Te privilege of being able to conduct research. 5. Te good fortune to be associated with a few top class economic geologists who actually knew what they were doing! Professor Willard C. Lacy deserves the most credit for quietly demonstrating the value of frst principles concerning fuid channelways, combined with an ability to look properly at the t- tures. Despite rapid technological advances this skill remains fundamental both to the practi- ing exploration geologist and to the academic researcher who is interested in understanding ore forming processes. Te fve volumes comprising this presentation were originally compiled individually over a period of eleven years, and aimed to progressively guide the observer though the principles of recogn-i tion concerning infll, alteration, overprinting, and fnally to ore-related breccias.

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  • School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

    Roger Taylor

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