Themes and Sessions

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Theme 10: Earth's Resources II: Origin and Sustainable Exploitation of Fluids and Ore Deposits

Co-ordinators:
Chris Heinrich (ETH Zurich)
Katy Evans (Curtin University, Perth)

Team members:
Cornel de Ronde (GNS Science), Bernhard Dold (University of Lausanne), Hiroshi Ohmoto (Pennsylvania State University), Urs Schaltegger (University of Geneva), Gordon Southam (University of Western Ontario)

Theme 10 sessions:

10a: Natural Resources and Future Technological Development [Show description]

10b: Redox Evolution of the Earth and its Influence on Ore Mineralization [Show description]

10c: Biogeochemical Cycling: Linking the Biosphere to Mineral Deposits [Show description]

10d: Experimental Studies and Numerical Modelling of Hydrothermal Ore Formation [Show description]

10e: Large-Scale Tectonic Controls on Fertility of Magmatic Suites for Ore Genesis [Show description]

10f: Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems Associated with Volcanic Arcs [Show description]

10g: Resolving Timescales of Magma Degassing and Ore Formation [Show description]

10h: Fluids, Melts and Wall Rocks: Processes of Metal Enrichment in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore Deposits [Show description]

Theme 10 related sessions:

09e: The Role of Sulfur in Petroleum Systems [Show description]

Scope of theme:
The following eight sessions will investigate the geochemical processes contributing to the formation, localisation and preservation of ore deposits, and explore our future requirements of mineral resources on a global scale. Global geochemical processes have changed through Earth's history, and the feedbacks between the evolution of lithosphere dynamics and the composition of ocean and atmosphere have controlled the formation and preservation of distinct mineral deposits since the Archean to the present. Session topics focus on processes over a large range of scales, from the plate dynamics giving rise to large mineralized provinces, through the modelling of ore-forming hydrothermal systems including the duration of contributing processes, down to nano-scale microbial activity in nature and in experimental laboratory studies of mineral - fluid interactions.