Tellurides and bismuth sulfosalts in gold occurrences of Greece: mineralogical and genetic considerations

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2007-01-01
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Voudouris, P.
Melfos, V.
Alfieris, D.
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Pre-Tertiary to Tertiary gold deposits in Greece occur in a wide range of genetic types including volcanic massive sulfides, orogenic, intrusion-hosted, skarn, manto-, porphyry- and epithermal-type ores. Almost all of the gold mineralization hosts various Bi-tellurides and Bi-sulfosalts, which in addition to Au-Ag-tellurides, are indicators of specific physicochemical conditions of ore formation. The Bi-bearing mineralization can be subdivided into three groups regarding their spatial relationship to gold: (a) mineralization which lacks tellurides but includes Bi-sulfosalts and native gold, (b) mineralization where Bi-tellurides of the reduced-type (joseite-A, joseite-B, pilsenite) accompany Bi-sulfosalts, native bismuth and native gold, (c) deposits/prospects where Au-Ag-tellurides are abundant and Bi-tellurides and Bi-sulfosalts are absent. Bi-telluride and -sulfosalt mineralization in Greece underwent several stages of remobilization during successive accretionary episodes in active continental margins and arc terranes during the Carboniferous to Pleistocene.

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This proceeding is published as Voudouris, P., Spry, P.G., Melfos, V., and Alfieris, D., 2007, Tellurides and bismuth sulfosalts in gold occurrences of Greece: mineralogy and genetic considerations, in Kojonen, K. K., Cook, N.J., and V.J. Ojala (eds.), Au-Ag-Te-Se deposits, Proceedings of the 2007 Field Workshop (Espoo, Finland, August 26-31, 2007). Geological Survey of Finland Guidebook 53, p. 85-94.

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