This study investigates the relationship between the evolution of the igneous and hydrothermal systems in the Cananea mining district located in northern Sonora, Mexico. The Cananea district was chosen for this study because post-mineral uplift and erosion has tilted the Cananea Range ∼15° to the east and exposed an oblique section through approximately 6 vertical kilometers of a mineralized volcano-plutonic system and because porphyry-related stockwork, breccia, and pegmatitic silicate-sulfide mineralization are all well developed and well exposed. Major, trace element, and isotopic data suggest that the Laramide (∼64-56 Ma) igneous rocks represent a cogenetic calc-alkaline magmatic series ranging in composition from gabbro to granite. Neodymium isotope (εNd = +0.7 to -5.7) and strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr(initial) = 0.70570 to 0.71037) values show a smooth inverse correlation and combined with the major and trace element data suggest that the Laramide rocks evolved from a mantle-derived parent melt by coupled assimilation and fractional crystallization. Phase petrology, mineral compositions, whole rock geochemistry, and alteration mineralogy indicate water, metal, chlorine, and sulfur content of the magmas increased with increasing differentiation and reached a maximum in late stage differentiates. The mineralized quartz-feldspar porphyries represent the rapid upward emplacement of this enriched differentiate. Porphyry-related mineralization in the Cananea district includes pegmatitic silicate-sulfide mineralization represented by the La Colorada and Maria deposits. Detailed field and geochemical work on the Maria deposit suggests that the fluids, alteration assemblages and paragenetic relations in silicate-sulfide pegmatites are similar to those seen in stockwork- and breccia pipe-hosted porphyry Cu systems, but that silicate-sulfide mineralization represents transitional conditions in which magmatic fluids are concentrated in a small volume and undergo efficient cooling and decompression leading to formation of high-grade telescoped mineralization.

O Pórfiro Yarumalito está localizado na parte norte do Distrito Mineiro Marmato a oeste do vale do rio Cauca-Patía, no Departamento de Antioquia. Este distrito mineiro é reconhecido pela histórica exploração das mineralizações de ouro. Os depósitos de ouro na região estão associados a veios controlados por estruturas e em stockworks, que são desenvolvidos em rochas ígneas associadas a eventos magmáticos do miocénico superior como a Formação Cômbia. Nesta dissertação foram caracterizadas rochas porfiriticas de composição andesitica, dacítica mineralizada e dacítica estéril, junto com as alterações hidrotermais que afetaram principalmente as últimas, utilizando microscopia óptica convencional (luz transmitida e refletida) e equipamentos de MEV na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados da petrografia permitiram distinguir no pórfiro dacítico mineralizado estágios de alteração potássica, propilítica e fílica, que indicam intensa circulação de fluidos em um amplo intervalo de temperatura, enquanto no pórfiro dacítico estéril se distinguiu só sericitização. Nestas alterações se fez uma seleção criteriosa de exemplares de mica trioctaédrica, clorita e mica dioctaédrica que foram analisados por microssonda eletrônica na Universidade de Brasilia Os resultados da química mineral sugerem a ocorrência de diversas trocas catiônicas durante o estágio magmático–hidrotermal. Estas trocas têm lugar tanto no sitio VI como no sitio IV, incluindo elementos como Si, Al, Mg, Fe, Ti e Mn. Estas trocas afetaram a composição no sítio A (intercamada) e também têm efeito na quantidade de ânions de F e Cl presentes na estrutura dos minerais analisados. Tanto as micas trioctaédricas magmáticas do pórfiro dacítico mineralizado como as da alteração potássica correspondem com biotitas magnésias, no entanto as micas trioctaédricas hidrotermais têm tendência para flogopitas, mostrando o aumento de Mg no sistema. Nas micas dioctaédricas se observa uma tendência para fengita no estágio correspondente com o pórfiro dacíto mineralizado. Para as cloritas a maior parte dos exemplares analisados corresponde com ripidiolitas. / The Yarumalito Porphyry is located in the northern part of the Mining District Marmato to west of the Cauca-Patía river valley in the Department of Antioquia. This mining district is known for historical exploration of gold mineralization. The gold deposits in the region are associated with veins controlled by structures and stockworks, which are developed in igneous rocks associated with magmatic events of the late Miocene as Combia Formation. In this thesis were characterized porphyritic rocks of andesitic and dacitic (mineralized and barren) composition and the hydrothermal alteration that affected principally the last two, using conventional optical microscopy (transmitted and reflected light) and SEM equipment at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The results of petrography allowed distinguish in the mineralized dacitic porphyry mainly stages of potassic alteration, propylitic alteration and phyllic alteration, indicating intense circulation of fluids in a wide temperature range. Meanwhile barren dacitic porphyry only has phyllic alteration. In these alteration were made a careful selection of trioctahedral mica, chlorite and dioctahedral mica that were analyzed by electron microprobe at the University of Brasilia. The results of mineral chemistry suggest the occurrence of several cationic exchanges during magmatic-hydrothermal stage. These exchanges take place both on site VI and in the site IV, including elements such as Si, Al, Mg, Fe, Ti and Mn. These changes affected the composition of A site (interlayer) and also have effect on the amount of anions of F and Cl in the structure of analyzed minerals. Both, the magmatic trioctahedral micas of mineralized dacitic porphyry and that generated in potassic alteration correspond with magnesium biotites, however hydrothermal 8 trioctahedral micas have tendency to phlogopites indicating the rise in Mg content in the system, dioctahedral micas have a tendency for phengite in stages corresponding with the mineralized dacitic porphyry. Chlorites in most analyzed samples correspond to ripidiolitas.

O depósito de Au(Cu) do tipo pórfiro do Palito localiza-se na porção central do Cráton Amazônico, na Província Aurífera do Tapajós, em uma área dominada por rochas graníticas e vulcânicas intermediárias a félsicas do final do Paleoproterozóico. Três litotipos compõem este depósito, onde o Granito Palito, de características porfiríticas, é a rocha hospedeira da mineralização de ouro e cobre, e a unidade mais jovem na seqüencia, intrusivo entre as unidades do Granito Rio Novo e o Granodiorito Fofoquinha. Três principais zonas de alteração hidrotermal foram reconhecidas; potássica, propilítica e sericítica. A alteração potássica é volumetricamente a mais importante, e afeita principalmente os corpos graníticos de Palito e Rio Novo, a alteração propilítica constitui um halo externo dentro dos granitos Rio Novo e Palito, e a alteração sericítica relacionada com a mineralização está predominantemente dentro do Granito Palito. Os corpos do minério dentro do granito Palito associam-se principalmente com veios de quartzo e de sulfetos cisalhados de direção predominante NWSE, dentro de zonas de cisalhamento e stockworks hidrotermalizados. Ouro encontra-se também disseminado no Granito Palito. Processos de cisalhamento possivelmente remobilizaram elementos posteriormente concentrados nas zonas de cisalha e stockworks. Análises de isótopos de oxigênio de zonas de alteração hidrotermal e veios mineralizados foram realizadas em quartzo (18OVSMOW = 8,8 a 11,2); feldspato potássico (7,9 a 8,8); sericita (1,7 a 6,9), clorita (2,4) e calcita (9,0 a 23,9). Os cálculos das análises de isótopos estáveis dos minérios, mostram valores de 34S dos sulfetos entre 1,2 a 3,6 , indicando uma fonte magmática. Os cálculos de 18OH2O foram feitos considerando uma temperatura de 350 ºC, e indicam valores para o quartzo entre 3,2 a 5,6 , para o feldspato potássico entre 4,8 a 5,7, sericita varia entre 1,1 a 6,3, clorita -2,6, e calcita entre 6,2 a 21,1. Os dados isotópicos para quartzo e feldspato potássico estão sugirindo fluidos principalmente magmáticos para os primeiros estágios da mineralização. Embora, os valores de sericita e clorita sugerem o influxo de águas meteóricas durante os processos de sericitização e cloritização. Estudos de inclusões fluidas dos grãos de quartzo sugerem uma etapa inicial de exsolução de fluidos, representada por salinidades baixas, desde 0,6 a 1,5 em peso do NaCl eq., á elevadas temperaturas (429 a 462 oC), seguida de processos de boiling, com etapas posteriores de mistura de fluidos indicadas por amplas variações nas salinidades desde 0,3 a > 28,8 em peso do NaCl eq., e temperaturas de homogeneização entre 101 a > 400 oC, que indicam uma origem magmática - hidrotermal para a mineralização. Em conjunto, as características geológicas do depósito, os tipos e estilos de alteração hidrotermal, mais os dados das análises de inclusões fluidas e isótopos estáveis indicam que o depósito do Palito representa uma mineralização do tipo pórfiro, magmático - hidrotermal desenvolvida em um ambiente de arco magmático de margem continental. / The Palito porphyry type copper-gold deposit is located in the central region of the Amazonian craton, in the Tapajós Gold Province (TGP), in an area that is dominated by intermediate to felsic granitic and volcanic rocks of late Paleoproterozoic age. Three lithotypes make up this deposit. The Palito Granite, with porphyritic features, is the host rock for gold and copper mineralization, and it is the youngest unit in the sequence, intrusive in the Rio Novo Granite and Fofoquinha Granodiorite. Three main wall-rock alteration zones have been recognized: potassic, propylitic, and sericitic zones. The potassic alteration is volumetrically the most important, affecting mainly the granitic bodies of Palito and Rio Novo, the propylitic alteration constitutes an outer halo within the Palito and Rio Novo granites, and the sericitic alteration is related to mineralization predominantly within the Palito granite. The ore bodies within the Palito Granite are mainly associated with sheared sulphide-bearing quartz veins trending predominantly NW-SE within shear zones and hydrothermalized stockworks. Gold is also disseminated within the Palito Granite. Shearing possibly remobilized elements, which later were concentrated in the shear zones and stockworks. Oxygen isotope analyses of the hydrothermal alteration zones and mineralized veins have been carried out on quartz (18OVSMOW = 8.8 to 11.2); K- feldspar (7.9 to 8.8); sericite (1.7 to 6.9); chlorite (2.4) and calcite (9.0 to 23.9). Stable isotope analyses of the ore sulphides show 34S values that range from 1.2 to 3.6 , reflecting a magmatic source. For the 18OH2O calculation a temperature of 350 ºC was considered, resulting in values for quartz from 3.2 to 5.6 , and for K-feldspar, from 4.8 to 5.7; values for sericite range from 1.1 to 6.3, for chlorite, -2.6, and for calcite, from 6.2 to 21.1. The isotopic results for quartz and K-feldspar suggest that the ore fluids were mainly derived from magma in the early stage of mineralization. 18O values for sericite and chlorite, however, indicates interaction of meteoric waters during the sericitization and chloritization processes. Fluid inclusion studies of quartz crystals suggest an very early stage of fluid exsolution, indicated by low salinities with a range from 0,6 to 1.5 wt.% NaCl equiv., at higher temperatures (429 to 462 ºC), followed by boiling processes, and posterior fluid-mixing stages, as indicated by high variability of salinities from 0.3 to > 28.8 wt.% NaCl equiv., and homogenization temperatures that range between 101 a > 400 oC, all suggesting a magmatic-hydrothermal source for the mineralization. The geological features of the deposit, styles and types of hydrothermal alteration, stable-isotopes and fluid inclusion analyses indicate that the Palito mineral deposit represents a magmatic-hydrothermal porphyry type developed in a continental margin magmatic arc.

O depósito de Au(Cu) do tipo pórfiro do Palito localiza-se na porção central do Cráton Amazônico, na Província Aurífera do Tapajós, em uma área dominada por rochas graníticas e vulcânicas intermediárias a félsicas do final do Paleoproterozóico. Três litotipos compõem este depósito, onde o Granito Palito, de características porfiríticas, é a rocha hospedeira da mineralização de ouro e cobre, e a unidade mais jovem na seqüencia, intrusivo entre as unidades do Granito Rio Novo e o Granodiorito Fofoquinha. Três principais zonas de alteração hidrotermal foram reconhecidas; potássica, propilítica e sericítica. A alteração potássica é volumetricamente a mais importante, e afeita principalmente os corpos graníticos de Palito e Rio Novo, a alteração propilítica constitui um halo externo dentro dos granitos Rio Novo e Palito, e a alteração sericítica relacionada com a mineralização está predominantemente dentro do Granito Palito. Os corpos do minério dentro do granito Palito associam-se principalmente com veios de quartzo e de sulfetos cisalhados de direção predominante NWSE, dentro de zonas de cisalhamento e stockworks hidrotermalizados. Ouro encontra-se também disseminado no Granito Palito. Processos de cisalhamento possivelmente remobilizaram elementos posteriormente concentrados nas zonas de cisalha e stockworks. Análises de isótopos de oxigênio de zonas de alteração hidrotermal e veios mineralizados foram realizadas em quartzo (18OVSMOW = 8,8 a 11,2); feldspato potássico (7,9 a 8,8); sericita (1,7 a 6,9), clorita (2,4) e calcita (9,0 a 23,9). Os cálculos das análises de isótopos estáveis dos minérios, mostram valores de 34S dos sulfetos entre 1,2 a 3,6 , indicando uma fonte magmática. Os cálculos de 18OH2O foram feitos considerando uma temperatura de 350 ºC, e indicam valores para o quartzo entre 3,2 a 5,6 , para o feldspato potássico entre 4,8 a 5,7, sericita varia entre 1,1 a 6,3, clorita -2,6, e calcita entre 6,2 a 21,1. Os dados isotópicos para quartzo e feldspato potássico estão sugirindo fluidos principalmente magmáticos para os primeiros estágios da mineralização. Embora, os valores de sericita e clorita sugerem o influxo de águas meteóricas durante os processos de sericitização e cloritização. Estudos de inclusões fluidas dos grãos de quartzo sugerem uma etapa inicial de exsolução de fluidos, representada por salinidades baixas, desde 0,6 a 1,5 em peso do NaCl eq., á elevadas temperaturas (429 a 462 oC), seguida de processos de boiling, com etapas posteriores de mistura de fluidos indicadas por amplas variações nas salinidades desde 0,3 a > 28,8 em peso do NaCl eq., e temperaturas de homogeneização entre 101 a > 400 oC, que indicam uma origem magmática - hidrotermal para a mineralização. Em conjunto, as características geológicas do depósito, os tipos e estilos de alteração hidrotermal, mais os dados das análises de inclusões fluidas e isótopos estáveis indicam que o depósito do Palito representa uma mineralização do tipo pórfiro, magmático - hidrotermal desenvolvida em um ambiente de arco magmático de margem continental. / The Palito porphyry type copper-gold deposit is located in the central region of the Amazonian craton, in the Tapajós Gold Province (TGP), in an area that is dominated by intermediate to felsic granitic and volcanic rocks of late Paleoproterozoic age. Three lithotypes make up this deposit. The Palito Granite, with porphyritic features, is the host rock for gold and copper mineralization, and it is the youngest unit in the sequence, intrusive in the Rio Novo Granite and Fofoquinha Granodiorite. Three main wall-rock alteration zones have been recognized: potassic, propylitic, and sericitic zones. The potassic alteration is volumetrically the most important, affecting mainly the granitic bodies of Palito and Rio Novo, the propylitic alteration constitutes an outer halo within the Palito and Rio Novo granites, and the sericitic alteration is related to mineralization predominantly within the Palito granite. The ore bodies within the Palito Granite are mainly associated with sheared sulphide-bearing quartz veins trending predominantly NW-SE within shear zones and hydrothermalized stockworks. Gold is also disseminated within the Palito Granite. Shearing possibly remobilized elements, which later were concentrated in the shear zones and stockworks. Oxygen isotope analyses of the hydrothermal alteration zones and mineralized veins have been carried out on quartz (18OVSMOW = 8.8 to 11.2); K- feldspar (7.9 to 8.8); sericite (1.7 to 6.9); chlorite (2.4) and calcite (9.0 to 23.9). Stable isotope analyses of the ore sulphides show 34S values that range from 1.2 to 3.6 , reflecting a magmatic source. For the 18OH2O calculation a temperature of 350 ºC was considered, resulting in values for quartz from 3.2 to 5.6 , and for K-feldspar, from 4.8 to 5.7; values for sericite range from 1.1 to 6.3, for chlorite, -2.6, and for calcite, from 6.2 to 21.1. The isotopic results for quartz and K-feldspar suggest that the ore fluids were mainly derived from magma in the early stage of mineralization. 18O values for sericite and chlorite, however, indicates interaction of meteoric waters during the sericitization and chloritization processes. Fluid inclusion studies of quartz crystals suggest an very early stage of fluid exsolution, indicated by low salinities with a range from 0,6 to 1.5 wt.% NaCl equiv., at higher temperatures (429 to 462 ºC), followed by boiling processes, and posterior fluid-mixing stages, as indicated by high variability of salinities from 0.3 to > 28.8 wt.% NaCl equiv., and homogenization temperatures that range between 101 a > 400 oC, all suggesting a magmatic-hydrothermal source for the mineralization. The geological features of the deposit, styles and types of hydrothermal alteration, stable-isotopes and fluid inclusion analyses indicate that the Palito mineral deposit represents a magmatic-hydrothermal porphyry type developed in a continental margin magmatic arc.

Cette thèse se propose de donner une synthèse générale du système du néoplatonicien Jamblique de Chalcis, acteur important de l’évolution de la métaphysique grecque durant l’âge antique tardif. Elle reconstruit tour à tour sa doctrine psychologique, sa hiérarchie des êtres et quelques-uns de ses concepts fondamentaux, en mettant l’accent sur l’histoire des idées entre le fondateur de l’école, Plotin, et la naissance de l’école néoplatonicienne d’Athènes. L’ensemble des œuvres laissées par Jamblique est exploité, ainsi que les quelque 800 fragments et témoignages sur sa vie et sa doctrine laissés par les auteurs postérieurs. Les influences subies sont analysées et replacées en contexte : néoplatonisme de Plotin et Porphyre, qui donne à Jamblique les principaux niveaux de son ontologie, qu’il analyse et fractionne ; médio-platonisme, dont le néoplatonisme hérite des topiques philosophiques ; aristotélisme, qui lègue une conception dynamique de l’âme et une hiérarchie des puissances cognitives consacrant la transcendance de l’intellect ; pythagorisme, qui permet à Jamblique de concevoir les mathématiques comme un langage valable pour la description de toutes les parties de la philosophie. Par l’ampleur de son œuvre ainsi que l’originalité et la fermeté des solutions apportées aux problèmes traités, Jamblique crée une synthèse puissante qui sert de base doctrinale aux écoles néoplatoniciennes tardives d’Athènes et Alexandrie, et est profondément représentative d’un âge théocentrique, où l’âme humaine n’est qu’un principe dérivé, qui doit prendre sa place dans l’ordre universel des choses : une métaphysique de l’unité, reposant sur la dualité dynamique de l’ordre et de sa variation. / This thesis strives to provide modern research with a synthesis of the system of Iamblichus of Chalcis, an important figure in the development of later Greek metaphysics. It reconstructs in turn his psychology, his hierarchy of being and some of his most basic concepts and philosophical laws, with a stress on the continuity between Plotinus, founder of the Neoplatonic school, and the beginnings of the school of Athens. The whole of Iamblichus’ body of work is exploited, as well as the 800 fragments and testimonia on his life and doctrine handed down to us by later authors. Influences received are analysed and set in context: Plotinus’ and Porphyry’s Neoplatonism, which provides the general levels of reality which Iamblichus tried to analyse and enrich; Middle Platonism, whose topics are debated in Neoplatonism; Aristotelianism, which accounts for a dynamic conception of the human soul and a hierarchy of cognitive powers beginning with the transcendent Intellect; Pythagoreanism, which allows Iamblichus to depict mathematics as a universal language, able to take the mark of all parts of philosophy. By the scope of his work and the originality and neatness of the solutions he provided to problems which nascent Neoplatonism had to confront, Iamblichus is able to create a powerful synthesis which acts as a doctrinal basis for the later schools of Athens and Alexandria: it is profoundly representative of a theocentric era, in which human soul is but a derived principle that has to keep its place in the grand scheme of being. It is a metaphysics of unity, founded on the dual dynamic of order and variation.

The majority of economic gold deposits in NSW are associated with Ordovician-aged igneous rocks and are examples of the Cu-Au porphyry-skarn-epithermal association commonly developed in convergent margin to orogenic settings. They are among the oldest porphyry Cu-Au deposits in the Pacific Rim region. They are similar to younger deposits in terms of tectonic setting and structure, but the largest are chemically distinct, being associated with shoshonite magmas (Cadia, Ridgeway and Northparkes). The Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) porphyries are subdivided into four sub-groups based mainly on their age relative to development of the Lachlan Transverse Zone (LTZ) structure. Two subgroups pre-date the LTZ, one group is syn�LTZ and one group post-dates the LTZ. No mineralisation has been found or reported among pre-I.TZ porphyries. but it is common in post- . l Z_ porphyries. Petrographic analysis and microprobe results establish a wide range of primary and secondary features within the Ordovician rocks examined in this study. Cale alkaline to shoshonitic affinities are supported by the variable abundance of primary K-feldspars. Primary mineral phases such as pyroxenes and igneous magnetite provide an indication of fractioning mineral assemblages responsible for igneous trends in magma chemistry. The hydrothermal mineral assemblages documented in these LFB study areas are characteristic of younger Cu-Au Porphyry style mineralisation. As expected, the most pervasive alteration is associated with highly mineralised shoshonitic Ordovician rocks at Ridgeway, and Cadia. the less strongly mineralised calc alkaline Ordovician rocks at Cargo. Copper Ilill and Fairholme. are correspondingly less strongly altered overall. although secondary mineral assemblages are locally abundant. Many varieties of oxides and carbonates are observed at the different study localities. Most of the studied samples conform to igneous chemical trends because they are weakly altered, although post magmatic processes, such as veining, are detectable in certain trends. The K2O enrichment of the studied samples is consistent with subductionmoditied mantle wedge sources. A few effects, such as the high Fe203 contents of some Ridgeway samples, probably reflect porphyry-style hydrothermal alteration processes. Host rocks at the Cadia and Ridgeway are entirely alkalic on the K2O versus SiO2 plot and shoshonitic on the Total Alkalies versus SiO2 plot. Igneous rocks at the other deposits display a range of compositions between low K tholeiites to shoshonites that in some cases reflects multiple igneous suites. The LREE and L1LE enrichments, and HFSE depletions (Nb, Ta and Ti) of the magmas associated with these deposits are characteristics of a subduction-related tectonic setting. They all fall in the volcanic-arc granite and syn-collisional granite field of the Nb-Y tectonic discrimination diagram. Several magma types are identified by differences in the HFSE and REE trends. Differences in the extent and style of magma fractionation are evident in the trace element data. The Ridgeway samples define a wider range of trace element concentrations than the Cadia samples that may indicate a greater extent of fractionation during emplacement of the Ridgeway magmas. Fairholme samples display a high Nh and /If trends that are distinct from the main fields on Zr variation diagrams. Compositional differences between larger Cu-Au deposits, Cadia-Ridgeway and smaller deposits, Copper Ifill, Cargo and Fairholme are evident in terms of Nb-Ta depletion and variation. The smaller deposits show constant Nb/Ta or negative Nb/Ta trends that extend to high Nb. The larger deposits display positive Nb/Ta trends that do not extend to high Nb. This distinction reflects a difference of preferential incorporation of Nb in a mineral phase (magnetite). Comparisons between Cadia-Ridgeway and other shoshonite (altered samples of Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina), calc alkaline magmas from New Zealand and rocks from other areas indicate that Nb/Ta is not directly correlated with the shoshonitic classification, K2O vs. SiO2, and that the Cadia-Ridgeway Nb and Ta variation is not the result of alteration. The fact that the weakly altered LFB Capertee shoshonites exhibit a narrow range of Nb and low Nb/Ta suggest the shoshonite trend for the LFB as a whole is a steep one on the Nb/Ta versus Nb plot. The results of this study could provide important information for exploration within the LFB. Only the Cadia and Ridgeway deposits display a wide range of Nb/Ta values and lack the near-horizontal trend seen for other localities associated with smaller deposits. The tectonic evolution of the LFB is a major factor contributing to occurrence of large porphyry Cu-Au deposits. The sequence of important events, however, commences with sub-crustal generation of oxidised magma and finishes with efficient Cu-Au accumulation by hydrothermal processes at favourable structural sites. The increase in Au-Cu deposit size from small (Copper Hill-Cargo) to world class (Cadia-Ridgeway) indicates the importance of magma composition during this process. The most obvious differences between the Cadia-Ridgeway and New Zealand rocks is that the latter are volcanic in origin and associated with an arc-back arc system. Therefore, they did not form in a tectonic regime suitable for the evolution of porphyries and the focussed movement of hydrothermal fluids during dilatant episodes. As a result, they are not linked to mineralisation despite having Nb-Ta and Nb/Ta variations that are typical of the high oxidation states in Au-prospective magmas of the LFB.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-78). Also available in electronic format via Internet.

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