Dear All
My colleague Bear McPhail and I have been conducting geochemical modelling
of saline oxidised fluids, such as those which were involved in the
production of some iron-oxide copper-gold deposits. We have found in several
simulations that delafossite (copper oxide) is a stable phase under
conditions we feel to be appropriate.
What I would ask is: does anybody have knowledge of delafossite ocurring as
a primary hydrothermal precipitate in copper deposits?
Dr Andy Wilde
Consulting Geologist
GeoDiscovery Group & Monash University
B/H: 613-9878-2710
Fax: 613-9878-2744
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