Interpretations and implications of LA ICP-MS analysis of chert for the origin of geochemical signatures in banded iron formations (BIFs) from the Meadowbank gold deposit, Western Churchill Province, Nunavut

• Published in: Chemical Geology
• Main Authors: Gourcerol, Blandine, Thurston, P.C., Kontak, D.J., Côté-Mantha, O.
• Other Authors: Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.AG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Applied geology; [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry; [SDU.STU.MI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Mineralogy; [SDU.STU.PE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Petrography; [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy; Canada; Nunavut; Rae
• Online Access: https://hal-brgm.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02283944; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.06.008

International audience Among the many types of mineral deposits within Archean cratons, gold mineralization is an important economic commodity with over 20,000 metric tons of gold produced from greenstone belts in 2001. Of the Archean-early Paleoproterozoic gold deposits, several different types of...