MD13A:
VMS Deposits and Their Geological Environment I

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Session Title - en français: Les sulfures massifs volcanogènes et leur environnement géologique

Session ID#: 6929

Session Description:
Volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits represent important polymetallic sources of base and precious metals in Canada and around the world. Studies of their modern analogues, seafloor massive sulphide (SMS) deposits, help constrain their processes of formation and evolution. This session welcomes contributions on the genesis of VMS and SMS deposits, addressing topics such as their mineralogy, geochemistry, and mode of emplacement. We also welcome studies of their geological environment, from regional to deposit scale. This includes hydrothermal alteration and reconstruction of the volcanic or sedimentary environment, addressing topics such as volcanology, sedimentology, geochemistry, petrology, stratigraphy, physical properties, geophysics, or tectonic setting.
OSPA Liaison:  Dominique Genna, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
Chairs:  Pierre-Simon Ross, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada and Dominique Genna, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
Primary Convener:  Pierre-Simon Ross, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Convener:  Dominique Genna, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
Index Terms:

1034 Hydrothermal systems [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3640 Igneous petrology [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3665 Mineral occurrences and deposits [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
8427 Subaqueous volcanism [VOLCANOLOGY]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MRG - Mapping and Regional Geology
  • PG - Precambrian Geology
  • SG - Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology
  • VGP - Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

MD13A-01
Setting and Style of VMS Mineralization in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia: Insights from the Ag-Zn-(Au) Nimbus Deposit (33101)
Steven Philip Hollis1,2, Paul Gillespie3, David Robert Mole1, Andrew Pumphrey3, Steve John Barnes1, Alicia Verbeeten4, Svetlana Tessalina5, Stephen Wyche2 and Christopher J Yeats1, (1)CSIRO, Perth, Australia, (2)Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (3)MacPhersons Resources, Kalgoorlie, Australia, (4)Minerex Petrographic Services, Kalgoorlie, Australia, (5)Curtin University, Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia
MD13A-02
AURIFEROUS VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULPHIDE, A NEW TYPE OF GOLD DEPOSIT IN THE GUIANA SHIELD? (34542)
Guiraud James1, Alain Tremblay1, Michel Jebrak1, Pierre-Simon Ross2 and Lefrançois Rock3, (1)University of Quebec at Montreal, Earth Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)Columbus Gold Corp., Longueuil, QC, Canada
MD13A-03
CONSONORM_LG: a new method of norm and alteration indexes calculation for low grade metamorphic rocks altered by VMS related hydrothermal systems (34247)
Lucie Mathieu, CONSOREM (Consortium de Recherche en Exploration Minérale - mineral exploration research consortium), Département des sciences appliquées, UQAC, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada, Sylvain Trépanier, Mines Virginia, 300 Saint-Paul, suite 200, Québec, QC, Canada and Réal Daigneault, Centre d'études sur les Ressources minérales (CERM), Département des sciences appliquées, UQAC, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
MD13A-04
Geochemical Classification of Archean Volcanic Rocks in the Blake River Group, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Québec (34952)
Sarane Sterckx1, Pierre-Simon Ross1 and Jean Goutier2, (1)Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)Géologie Québec, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada
MD13A-05
Reconstruction and evolution of Archean intracaldera facies: the Rouyn-Pelletier Caldera Complex, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada. (36599)
Lyndsay Moore1, Réal Daigneault1, Hannah M Aird2, Neil Banerjee3 and Wulf U Mueller1, (1)Centre d'études sur les Ressources minérales (CERM), Département des sciences appliquées, UQAC, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada, (2)University of Puget Sound, Geology, Tacoma, WA, United States, (3)Western University, Department of Earth Sciences, London (Ontario), ON, Canada
MD13A-06
Volcanic Reconstruction of the Powderhouse Dacite in the Paleoproterozoic VMS Hosting Chisel Sequence, Snow Lake, Manitoba (36222)
Vanessa Christine Friesen1, Margaret Engelbert1, Michelle DeWolfe2 and Harold Lorne Gibson3, (1)Laurentian University, MERC, Earth Sciences, Sudbury, ON, Canada, (2)Mount Royal University, Earth Sciences/MERC, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)MERC, Department of Earth Sciences, The Goodman School of Mines, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
MD13A-07
The Lower Lemoine Member of the Waconichi Formation, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Chibougamau, Quebec: Implications for VMS Exploration (34501)
Alexandre Richard Boulerice, Institut national de la recherche scientifique centre Eau Terre Environnement, Québec, QC, Canada, Pierre-Simon Ross, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Geological Survey of Canada, Québec, Canada, Sylvain Lépine, Cogitore Resources Inc., Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada and Francois Leclerc, Ministère de l'Énergie et des Ressources naturelles, Val-d'Or, QC, Canada
MD13A-08
Contrasting the settings of seafloor massive sulfide deposits on the South Central Indian Mid-Ocean Ridge: Results of the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) INDEX 2013 cruise (35345)
Harold Lorne Gibson1, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera2, Michelle DeWolfe3, Margaret Engelbert1 and Ralf Freitag2, (1)Laurentian University, MERC, Earth Sciences, Sudbury, ON, Canada, (2)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, (3)Mount Royal University, Earth Sciences/MERC, Calgary, AB, Canada
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