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Hi Chris,

Check the literature surrounding the Macraes shear zone and mine in Otago, New Zealand, I think it may be a good eample of what you are looking for. Dave Craw and Doug Mackenzie have published a bounty of papers on this and other deposits of a similar but smaller-scale nature from around Otago.

Hope this helps.
Sam Ritchie

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Bonson, Christopher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear All,

 

I’m looking for a bit of assistance. Does anyone know of an example of ore mineralisation within a fault zone, where a vein system has been emplaced along a fault and then subsequently deformed by brittle processes into fault bound lenses, breccia, gouge etc.. so that the principal ore consists of the fault products? I am particularly interested in examples exploited by underground selective mining methods and, even better, anything that is a current producing mine.  The commodity isn’t especially important, although I’m interested from a precious metals perspective.

 

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Chris

 

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