Ore Deposit Models

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

This subject is taugt through the Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences: https://vieps.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/.

85 hours

A basic knowledge of ore deposit environments and processes is recommended. Underpinning disciplines, including third year level geochemistry, hydrology, mineralogy, volcanology, sedimentology, igneous petrology, and structural geology, are also strongly recommended.

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This course provides an introduction to the key features of several major classes of economically important mineral deposits. Each deposit style will be discussed in terms of geological and tectonic framework, mineralisation, alteration, genetic models and exploration criteria. Lectures covering each deposit type will be complemented with exercises or practical classes which examine sample sets of typical ores and host rocks.

• This subject aims to equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise appropriate for post-graduate research in the field;
• equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geoogists in industry or government organisations; to recognise alteration in host-rock sequences;
• characterise ore textures; recognise the importance and role of structure in the formation and modification of ore deposits.

1x written ore deposit summary of 500 words (22%), 1x oral presentation, based on hand-specimen analysis, 15 minutes (33%), 3x laboratory-based practicals dealing with lithofacies analysis, mineralogy, ore textures, and lithogeochemistry, ranging 2-4 hours (45%) all due during the teaching period.

Reading expected to be completed in the pre-teaching period.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Exercise critical judgement;
• undertake rigorous and independent thinking;
• adopt a problem-solving approach to new and unfamiliar tasks;
• develop high-level written report and/or oral presentation skills; interrogate, synthesise and interpret the published literature;
• work as part of a team.