Geochemical and mineralogic footprint of a porphyry Cu (-Mo-Au) system

John H. Dilles, Scott W. Halley, Richard M. Tosdal

ADVANCED
ARGILLIC
pyroph-alun
topaz

Illite-chl
-relic fspar

Illite-chl-smect
-relic fspar

chl-fspar
calc/epid-hem

phengitic
musc-chlrelic fspar

SERICITIC
PHYLLIC

musc

Top of Mineralized Zone

te
spec. hemati
INTERMEDIATE
ARGILLIC
1 km

n
no

PROPYLITIC

-ma
uids
atic fl
gm

SERICITIC
PROPYLITIC

epid-chl
-act-fspar

700

Ks
(P par
ota - B
ss iot
ic)

600
500 b

c
van

Illite
?

POTASSIC

Chl+Epid

Cu > 0.2wt% (MoAu)

ChlHem
Calc

Ilite-Smectite
?

mixed layer
Chl-Smect

Intermediate
Argillic

1
2
3
4
log (mKCl + K+/mHCl + H+)

1 km

Wavelength of white
mica SWIR (2200)
2210 nm
2205 nm
2200 nm

Smectite

1 km

Deep Environment

Propylitic

20
22 gite
en
Ph

Kaolinite

Act+Epid
2210

100

(Dickite kaolinite)

2200

200

95

(Dickite pyrophyllite)

21

illic

Pyrophyllite

Arg

300

Muscovite

ed

400

K-feldspar

tic

Ad

TC

POTASSIC
biotKspar LATE INTERMEDIATE
ARGILLIC
magmatic smectIllitekaolchl
fluids
& relic feldspar

white mica 2200

nm wavelength

ici

Andalusite

SODICCALCIC
granite
plag-actepid
porphyry
dikes

(Hemley et al.,1980; Montoya &

Hemley, 1975; Sverjensky et al., 1991;
Hazelton et al., 1994; Reyes, 1990)

1 kb

r
Se

500

2 kb

System K2O-Al2O3-SiO2-KCl
-HCl-H2O at 1.0 kb,
quartz present

Elevation of Highest Grade Cu

SODICCALCIC