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Philippine porphyry and epithermal deposits: an introduction
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Cooke, DR and Hollings, P and Chang, Z, Philippine porphyry and epithermal deposits: an introduction, Economic Geology, 106, (8) pp. 1253-1256. ISSN 0361-0128 (2011) [Letter or Note in Journal]
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DOI: doi:10.2113/econgeo.106.8.1253
Abstract
The Philippines is one of the most richly endowed parts of
the Southwest Pacific, with many porphyry copper-gold and
epithermal gold-silver deposits scattered along the archipelago
(e.g., Sillitoe and Gappe, 1984; Mitchell and Leach, 1991;
Fig. 1). Chinese mining artifacts discovered in the Baguio and
Masbate districts suggest that gold and silver mining dates
back to at least the 14th century. Several placer gold mining
regions were active during the Spanish regime (1521 to 1898;
Bureau of Mines and Geosciences, 1986). Since World War II,
gold and silver production has risen fairly steadily, from 2.0 t
Au and 1.4 t Ag in 1946 to 37 t Au and 34 t Ag in 2009 (Bureau
of Mines and Geosciences, 1986; Fig. 2). Between 2005
and 2009, the Philippines accounted for approximately 1.5 and
0.1 percent of global gold and silver production, respectively,
when approximately 37 t Au and between 14 and 34 t Ag were
produced each year (George, 2011; Brooks, 2011; Fig. 2).
Item Details
Item Type: | Letter or Note in Journal |
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Keywords: | Porphyry deposits epithermal deposits Philippines |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Geology |
Research Field: | Resource geoscience |
Objective Division: | Mineral Resources (Excl. Energy Resources) |
Objective Group: | Mineral exploration |
Objective Field: | Copper ore exploration |
UTAS Author: | Cooke, DR (Professor David Cooke) |
UTAS Author: | Chang, Z (Dr Zhaoshan Chang) |
ID Code: | 74857 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
Deposited By: | Centre for Ore Deposit Research - CODES CoE |
Deposited On: | 2011-12-14 |
Last Modified: | 2017-12-13 |
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