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Record W3158593325 · doi:10.82308/25545

Genesis and metamorphism of the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario

2005· article· en· W3158593325 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
M. Heiligmann

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
KeywordsMetamorphismGeologyGeochemistry

Abstract

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The worldclass Hemlo deposit is one of Canada's largest gold producers, containing 95 million tons of ore grading ~8 g/t Au; the mineralization is hosted mainly by two sub-parallel shear zones. However, unlike most Archean lode gold deposits, the ore occurs as finely disseminated Hg- and Ag-bearing native gold in potassically altered rocks, and is associated with molybdenite, stibnite and realgar. Mineralization occurred at greenschist conditions (400 to 500°C), and was subsequently overprinted by a single metamorphic event that peaked at ~630°C and 5 to 7 kb, which recrystallized the ore and alteration assemblages. Retrograde cooling lasted for ~80 m.y., with temperature decreasing on average ~5°C per m.y. Ore formation involved three reactions that affected ∫S2,∫O2, and pH: the dissolution of sedimentary barite, the precipitation of pyrite, and the replacement of muscovite by K-feldspar. During sulfidation, caused by the dissolution of barite, iron partitioned preferentially into pyrite, which prevented the formation of Fe-bearing metamorphic index minerals (such as garnet and staurolite), oxides (e.g., magnetite, hematite, ilmenite), and low- ∫S2 sulfides (e.g., pyrrhotite). In addition, K-alteration strongly enriched the ore zones in K-feldspar (microcline) and muscovite, which buffered pH, and prevented formation of aluminosilicates. Hemlo is an example of a mesothermal deposit which formed from metamorphic fluids with a significant magmatic component. Deposition of native gold and molybdenite occurred due to decreases in pH and ∫O2 that accompanied potassic alteration and pyrite precipitation. Other elements, such as Sb and As were adsorbed initially onto pyrite growth surfaces. Near peak metamorphism, the deposit evolved a sulfide melt that formed through release of As and Sb from pyrite during metamorphic recrystallization, partial decomposition of primary minerals (such as native gold), and interaction of the melt with sulfur-bearing aqueous metamorphic fluids. The mineral assemblages that crystallized from this melt are similar to those predicted by experimental data for the As-Sb-S and related systems, and are interpreted to have formed by fractional crystallization.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.121

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.176 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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