Quartz Vein Emplacement Mechanisms at the E26 Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, New South Wales

摘要

Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposits are characterized by numerous fracturing events. Brittle fracture of mineralized intrusions and the surrounding host rocks is a consequence of hydraulic breakage caused by the interplay of the changing physiochemical properties of magmatic fluids and/or the local tectonic regime. We have mapped more than 1,400 quartz-sulfide vein sets at the Ordovician Endeavour 26 North (E26) deposit, central New South Wales, in order to constrain the processes influencing fracture development around small (-200 m) porphyritic intrusions.